From: S-PinkhamWay@haringey.gov.uk
19/05/2011
Dear Resident
You have previously provided us with your details in connection with the proposals for development of a waste facility and depot at the Pinkham Way (former Friern Barnet sewage treatment works) site. The Waste Authority has produced a newsletter to answer some of the questions that we have received following our exhibitions earlier in the year. The newsletter can be viewed at: http://www.nlwa.gov.uk/procurement/pinkham_way/pinkham_way_newsletter, and you may also have received a copy by post.
Kind Regards,
North London Waste Authority
From: Member of the Public
19/05/2011
Please be kind enough to explain why Haringey - as the independent local planning authority - is distributing a NLWA memo, that is, from a planning applicant.
Thank you for your assistance.
From: S-PinkhamWay@haringey.gov.uk
24/05/2011
Thank you for your email. In response to the point that you have raised:
The North London Waste Authority does not employ any staff directly. Instead it makes arrangements through a lead borough arrangement with its constituent borough councils, i.e. the London Borough of Camden, and until recently, the London Borough of Haringey.
Camden and Haringey, as lead boroughs for the NLWA, have employed staff to undertake NLWA work and equipped them with offices, IT and other infrastructure, but then charge the associated costs back to the NLWA. The costs of establishing NLWA as a completely stand-alone entity with its own dedicated support for finance, legal, property, personnel, IT, etc. employees has always been judged to be an inefficient use of council tax payers’ money, by contrast to the current arrangements, through which NLWA benefits from the economies of scale of a host borough.
Whilst the NLWA’s principal address is at Camden Town Hall (the Clerk to the NLWA is the Chief Executive of Camden, and Camden supplies financial, legal and committee services support to the NLWA), the main day-to-day business of the NLWA is conducted from offices in Haringey (as, until recently, the Haringey Director of Environment was also the “Technical Adviser” to the NLWA and chief officer responsible for the NLWA’s strategy and contracts management activities).
Whilst the NLWA’s principal address is at Camden Town Hall (the Clerk to the NLWA is the Chief Executive of Camden, and Camden supplies financial, legal and committee services support to the NLWA), the main day-to-day business of the NLWA is conducted from offices in Haringey (as, until recently, the Haringey Director of Environment was also the “Technical Adviser” to the NLWA and chief officer responsible for the NLWA’s strategy and contracts management activities).
These arrangements are noted in each year’s Annual Report from the NLWA and are a matter of public record (most recently at http://www.nlwa.gov.uk/admin/uploads/20100630/2006-06-30-Report-Item12-%20NLWA%20Annual%20report.pdf – see paragraphs 1.7 and 1.8, and also in the NLWA 2009/10 Annual Statement of Accounts at http://www.nlwa.gov.uk/cms_downloads/Statement_of_accounts_0910.pdf).
As noted in both documents, the employment link with Haringey ceased from the end of March 2010; however, because staff employed on NLWA business are still based in offices leased from Haringey Council (separate from any Haringey Council employees), Haringey IT systems are still in use, under a Service Level Agreement between the two parties, by most people engaged on NLWA business.
As noted in both documents, the employment link with Haringey ceased from the end of March 2010; however, because staff employed on NLWA business are still based in offices leased from Haringey Council (separate from any Haringey Council employees), Haringey IT systems are still in use, under a Service Level Agreement between the two parties, by most people engaged on NLWA business.
Kind Regards,
North London Waste Authority
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