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Описание: 14 February 2010 Tottenham has some lovely old buildings. This is 7 White Hart Lane N17. The house is a Georgian building Listed Grade II. It should be an attractive asset for Tottenham's streetscape. Apart of course from the regular dumping of rubbish outside. Since 2007 I and other local residents have sent Haringey Council reports and photos of this dumping,. My own photos of 7 White Hart Lane are in this Flickr photo album. Years ago I was so very naive. I assumed the powers-that-be would discover who was dumping and bring it to an end. I also thought that street rubbish shouldn't be tolerated in Tottenham, just as it wasn't tolerated in posh streets in the west of Haringey. (To give one example, in Muswell Hill amd Crouch End where many Haringey Council Leaders have their homes.) On 5 March 2007 Haringey staff told me not all of the pavement rubbish outside 7 White Hart Lane was dumped. Instead this location was officially a "designated refuse collection point". It's not difficult to see the stupidity of such a dysfunctional arrangement. Having "officially approved" trash piles on the pavement means that local residents and traders observe waste regularly collected by the Council's contractors. If even a few add their unofficial crud, the pile is refreshed, grows bigger, and more frequent. In 2007, Sheila Peacock, one of the three local ward councillors, made an interesting observation. She told me that some of the bagged or loose rubbish left outside Number 7, may come from shops, or flats above shops in the rear of the alleyway next door. Really? No Council or or waste contractors providing bins? As mentioned, I and other Haringey residents have complained about this for over twenty years. Haringey - staff and local councillors - may have proposed or experimented with possible solutions. I made a few suggestions myself. The current conventional wisdom is not to criticise experiments but to learn from what works; from what partly works; and why. But also and crucially, from what fails and why that happens. A phrase often used is "failing forward". I'm sorry Haringey, but as an elected councillor from 1998-2014 the street dumping is simply failing. § In England a building which is "listed" means it's on a statutory register of buildings of "special architectural or historic interest". Grade I means "of exceptional interest". Grade II* (starred) means "particularly important buildings of more than special interest". Grade II is for buildings of "special interest".

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