The shocking u-turn by Haringey Council on its promise to aim to be the ‘greenest borough in London’ has come under criticism by Liberal Democrats.

This month the Council Leader, Labour Cllr George Meehan and Cllr Brian Haley, Cabinet member for the Environment, openly boasted of their aspirations to become the greenest borough but the turnaround shown in recent Council papers setting out the Council’s priorities shows only to make Haringey ‘One of the greenest boroughs’. Lib Dems have criticised the admission as evidence of Labour failures on green issues.

Cllr Bob Hare, Lib Dem Sustainability Spokesperson, comments:

“Not only does this show that Labour have not done as well on green issues as they wanted but also that their objectives have changed. The admission that they no longer want to be the greenest borough is alarming.”