Highgate and Archway’s Lib Dem councillors are calling on Haringey’s Labour-run Council to think again over new parking controls that have unexpectedly appeared in one of the area’s most densely parked areas. To the surprise and anger of local residents, Haringey Council has this week introduced double yellow lines into a wide residential area near the Archway Road. Local councillor and Lib Dem leader Neil Williams says the situation is adding to the already huge parking problems in streets where major gas works and works on the nearby Archway bridge are already taking up valuable parking spaces.

After pressure from Lib Dems and local residents in the area known locally as ‘The Miltons’, the Council had recently agreed to make some parking spaces available in a nearby, and largely unused, council car park at Tudor Close.However, despite the present chaos due to the street works, the Council has now painted double yellow lines near the junctions and in other parts of the street that appear entirely unnecessary.Cllr Williams, who is asking for an urgent review of the restrictions and for more parking at Tudor Close to be made available, says that some of the double yellow lines are clearly unnecessary and that the timing of the new works beggars belief.

Lib Dem Leader and Highgate Councillor Neil Williams, comments:

“I have asked Haringey to look again at what they have now done, and they have agreed to visit the site. We have been battling for months now with parking problems in the Miltons as the Council timed its own Archway Bridge repair works to coincide with the disruptive, but necessary, works to the gas mains.

Lib Dem Great London Authority candidate Lynne Featherstone adds:

“The yellow lines, as well as being over the top, could not have been more ill timed. The whole area is under siege from street works, and resident have had more than enough.”