In her battle to clear up the areas in and around Haringey’s train stations, local councillor Lynne Featherstone has secured agreement that there will be new litter bins surrounding one station – Harringay – where residents have regularly complained about the amount of rubbish. Ms Featherstone says it is another small but welcome step in securing action from station authorities over the state of local stations.

Lynne Featherstone met with the Streetscene Manager for the Finsbury Park Partnership at Harringay Station last week. The meeting followed an offer of help from the partnership over the installation of new litter bins at the station approaches. After possible locations of new bins were looked at, four new bins were agreed.

Lynne Featherstone comments:

“I am delighted that it looks as if we can have four new litter bins near Harringay station. We need to insist that Haringey regularly empties the new bins, and I will not be letting up on the state of the stations. Although I am pleased that new fencing we have pressed for has now been built, a lot of rubbish has not been cleared.”

Stroud Green’s new local councillor Laura Edge adds:

“The state of our two local stations was certainly an issue in the recent by-election, and I am pleased that we are making progress. We will continue to work with residents and local groups to press the stations to clean up their act.”