Liberal Democrats have criticized Haringey Council housing chiefs over the cancellation at short notice of the 6th January Area Housing Forums in Hornsey, Tottenham and Wood Green.

Council tenants and leaseholders were due to be consulted at the meetings about proposed increases to rent and service charges and plans to link these to property values.

Chair of the Hornsey Area Forum, Cllr. Ron Aitken, was only informed on the afternoon of the previous working day that, due to ‘a printing and distributional error,’ a letter from the Labour Lead Member for Housing about the rent increase, which should have gone out to tenants on 20th December, had not been sent out.

“Haringey has bungled again”, said Cllr Aitken. “Tenants or leaseholders who do turn up will be left out in the cold. This is further evidence of the appalling way Haringey treats its tenants”.