Lib Dem councillor for Highgate, Bob Hare has expressed his dismay at Haringey Council’s failure to properly fund and implement the Archway Road Neighbourhood Plan.

The comments come a week before the issue is due to be discussed at the Muswell Hill Area Assembly (which covers the area) on Thursday 13 November and follows news from the Labour-run council that funding to update the plans, which would act as a blueprint for the area’s regeneration, will not be considered until 2006.

The issue was brought back into the public again last month at the Muswell Hill Area Assembly. Angry residents asked why the Archway Road Neighbourhood Plan had received absolutely no support from the Council since its adoption nearly five years ago.

Since 2002, when Cllr Hare was elected, he has lobbied Haringey Council to invest in Archway Road and resource the Neighbourhood Plan.

However three years on and Cllr Hare says the Labour-run council remains uninterested in efforts of the residents to improve the area.

Cllr Bob Hare(Highgate) comments:

“Haringey’s Labour council has done nothing to implement the Archway Road Neighbourhood Plan in the five years since it was agreed. The Executive Member for Environment answered my question to him on this by saying they are thinking about doing more talking about it. What we need is a serious effort to put some of the plan’s actions into place. This is what I have been asking for and will continue to press for.”