Lib Dem councillors in Highgate and Crouch End are backing compromiseplans from local residents over tough new parking controls proposed byHaringey Council. The Council is presently consulting on plans which wouldpaint double yellow lines down much of Hornsey Lane, which has concernedresidents living on a road which already has a shortage of parking.

Lib Dem Leader Neil Williams, who represents Highgate ward, has beenworking with the local residents’ association, the Hornsey LaneAssociation, and local campaigner Ralph Crisp, to see if a sensiblecompromise can be agreed.

The Council had agreed to a request from CllrWilliams to put on hold the implementation of the scheme until alternativeplans could be worked out. Hornsey Lane’s six Lib Dem councillors are nowbacking the alternative plans, which would allow parking to continue onparts of the Lane, but also create new breaks which would allow for thebuild up of traffic bottlenecks to be addressed.

Lib Dem Leader and Highgate councillor Neil Williams comments:

“I hope theCouncil will listen to the views of the residents, who have come up with aworkable plan that will improve traffic flow without unnecessarily takingaway parking places. The road is a bus route and a main road connectingHighgate and Crouch End, so we must ensure traffic can flow -but I thinka balance can be struck.”

Lib Dem Parliamentary Spokesperson Cllr Lynne Featherstone adds:

“John Gordon, Ralph Crisp and the Hornsey Lane Associate deserve much credit forthe hard work they have put in to developing their alternative proposals,and I hope the council will adopt them.”