Lib Dem transport spokesperson Lynne Featherstone has called on the Labour Leader of the Council to take action over council employees who are taking up residents’ parking spaces in his own Woodside ward in Wood Green.

George Meehan faced heavy criticism last week as guest speaker of the Avenue Gardens Residents’ Association, an area situated between Wood Green tube and Haringey’s Civic Centre. Residents say they have repeatedly complained that council employees routinely take up the parking spaces of local residents in the Controlled Parking Zone. They have routinely complained to Mr Meehan, their local councillor as well as Council Leader, but the problem has continued.

Ms Featherstone is writing to George Meehan to demand that action is now taken.

Lynne Featherstone comments:

“This is unacceptable – if Haringey employees can’t obey the parking rules, it doesn’t set a great example for the rest of us. George Meehan has had plenty of opportunities to sort this problem out, and it is time to take action.”