Lynne Featherstone, Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, today submitted a response to the Thameslink Consultation. The Local MP stressed the need for any future franchise to ensure that Harringay and Hornsey stations receive the full benefit of increased service levels. The consultation asks for views on the future of the Thameslink franchise, […]

In a dramatic announcement on Friday, the Inspector running the Public Inquiry into the North London Waste Authority’s (NLWA) proposal to build a giant incinerator at Pinkham Way rejected the plan because of lack of consultation.  The Waste Plan consortium had failed to fulfil its legal obligation to liaise with partner authorities Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Essex and Hertfordshire before […]

Following the the tragic fatal stabbing last week of a 79 year old woman in Commerce Road, Bounds Green, Lib Dem Council Group Leader, Cllr Richard Wilson said, This is a horrific crime and all our thoughts are with the victims family, friends and neighbours. We need an independent review to find out out if […]

Local Liberal Democrats have this week vowed to support the efforts of a Bounds Green resident to set up a neighbourhood watch and get the local community to help to improve the safety of the area. Sakina Chenot of Woodfield Way decided that action was needed to improve safety in her street after she was […]

Three North London MPs have combined forces to help residents defeat plans to build a waste treatment plant at Pinkham Way. Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey and Wood Green), Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet) and David Burrowes (Enfield Southgate) met last week to discuss the plans, which they say would fundamentally change the nature of the area. The […]

Liberal Democrat councillor Juliet Solomon, who has recently been on a fact finding trip to a waste facility in Donarbon, Cambridgeshire, has said that her worst fears have been confirmed and that the impact on the local area will be unacceptable if a broadly similar development, as proposed by the North London Waste Authority (NLWA), […]

Local Liberal Democrats have demanded that Haringey Council intervenes after the top boss at the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) this week refused to attend a public meeting on the controversial plans to build a waste processing plant at Pinkham Way.   In April 2011, Lynne Featherstone MP asked David Beadle, the managing director of […]

To make sure that the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) is aware of local concern over plans to build a waste processing plant at Pinkham Way, local Liberal Democrats yesterday presented the authority’s top boss with views from hundreds of local residents who had responded to a Liberal Democrat survey. Lynne Featherstone MP and Alexandra […]

Local residents will “feel let down” after the Labour Council this week refused to debate the controversial issue of the proposed waste plant at Pinkham Way and answer questions on Labour members’ role in the decisions to use the site.   Cllr Juliet Solomon called for an emergency motion at Monday’s Full Council meeting on the plans […]

Liberal Democrats have renewed their calls for consultation with local residents on the controversial plans for a depot and new waste processing facilities at Pinkham Way.   Earlier this month local councillor, Juliet Solomon, met with Council bosses to highlight the complete lack of any consultation with residents in Alexandra ward and to raise a […]