Lib Dem councillor for Crouch End David Winskill has met with Haringey Council officers to arrange better signs for the Hornsey Library car park, near Crouch End’s busy shopping centre.

Cllr Winskill says the facility, in Haringey Park, is already available free of charge to Saturday shoppers, but is currently greatly underused.

Cllr Winskill, who is keen to ensure the full use of existing facilities in the area, has asked officers to get the libraries facility staff to keep an hourly record of Saturday usage of the library car park over the next month. He says that from his own research on the fifty space car park it is never more than 70% full even at peak shopping times.

Cllr Winskill comments:

“Parking in Crouch End is very badly sign-posted. It makes a great deal of sense to ensure available parking spaces in the area are fully utilised. We will be asking the Council to look at ways in which the Town Hall car park could be better used at the weekends, but for now, we need to make sure there is good take up of existing places at the underused library car park just next door.”