Haringey Council report, by Joanna Christophides (Bounds Green Ward)

Cllr Joanna Christophides

"Residents have raised many of these issues with me and my ward colleagues, Councillors Cooke and Demirci, especially issues surrounding:

• the consultation process, 
• environmental concerns, and 
• worries about traffic.

"As Bounds Green Ward councillors, we have responded, by ensuring that residents have had an opportunity to raise those concerns with us. It is also why we held and attended:

• a meeting at a local school with the three of us, plus Joanne McCartney, the GLA Assembly Member for Enfield and Haringey – inviting approximately 1500 households
• a meeting with the Leader of Haringey Council, the cabinet member, and the Assistant Director for Planning and Regeneration. We were accompanied by representatives from the two local primary schools, members of the Pinkham Way Alliance, and members of the Bounds Green and District Residents Association.

"Pinkham Way was also the main agenda item at the Wood Green Area Forum.

"It is with those meetings in mind, that I feel reassured by Councillor Strickland’s amendment, and I note in particular the resolve to ensure that the consultation process is open, and transparent, and fair. 

"As ward councillors, we have pledged to keep residents in Bounds Green fully informed of the progress of the application, and to represent the views of our residents, who have rightly raised some very important questions about the process and about the planning application."