Liberal Democrat councillor Lynne Featherstone has successfully lobbied for the inclusion of bank holiday waste collection arrangements on Haringey Council’s website. The assurance made this week by the Council follows months of pressure from the Lib Dems who have pressed Haringey Council to take action.

The Lib Dems recent residents’ survey highlighted the problem with many dissatisfied residents complaining that the Council did not make them aware of alterations to the usual collection.

Cllr Featherstone has welcomed the assurance that the Council is currently in the process of updating its website to include bank holiday waste collection information. However she is concerned that a relatively simple exercise has taken so long to implement:

“It is very irritating for residents to put out rubbish or recycling to find it is not collected on the usual day. I am therefore pleased that Haringey Council is finally addressing this problem. I hope that it will greatly reduce the inconvenience to residents caused by lack of information currently available.

“However, I am concerned that it has taken months for the Council to take any action to inform residents about alterations to services and that simply is not acceptable.”