Haringey’s Christmas refuse collection timetable has been condemned by local Liberal Democrat councillors across the borough.

This follows Haringey Accord’s failure to keep to their special Christmas timetable resulting in rubbish left uncollected for several days. In an attempt to catch up on the backlog of missed collections, rubbish collections even had to take place on New Year’s Day.

“This is a serious concern,” says Councillor Lynne Featherstone, whose own rubbish collection did not take place on the advertised day over the Christmas period.

“Once again, Haringey has failed to get right the basics of providing services and residents were left with uncollected rubbish piling up,” comments Lynne Featherstone.

She has also expressed concern about where the money for the extra New Years Day collections is coming from:

“New Year’s Day was not meant to be a working day for the collection and I want to know where the extra money is coming from to pay for these extra costs. Residents should not have to foot the bill for the failure to empty their bins on time.”