Residents in a Hornsey housing estate have been left stunned after it was revealed that they will have to wait another year before their homes will be redecorated – four years after Haringey Council promised that they would be renovated and ten years since they were last redecorated.

Local Liberal Democrats have unearthed that once again Stokely Court, which is sheltered accommodation for the elderly and disabled in Brook Road, has been left off a Homes for Haringey internal redecoration scheme.

Liberal Democrat councillor Monica Whyte has written urgently to the Chief Executive of Homes for Haringey to explain why Stokely court has been neglected and how many other sheltered accommodation homes have been missed due to the “slippage” of the Internal Decoration Programme for Elderly and Disabled Tenants.

Cllr Monica Whyte, Hornsey ward, comments:

“It is appalling that it has been ten years since the flats of Stokely Court have been redecorated. I am writing to the Chief Executive of Homes for Haringey to make them explain why so many residents in sheltered accommodation have had to wait so long to have their homes redecorated.”