Lib Dems secure lighting for Bowes Park

11.15.38am GMT Fri 1st Sep 2006

Bounds Green residents living near Bowes Park station are celebrating the successful end of a ten-year campaign to get lighting for the railway-passage at the station. Lib Dem councillors John Oakes and Ali Demirci convened a site-meeting between Police Sgt Andy Lea, residents, and Haringey's Street Lighting department, securing state-of-the-art lights for the passage.

Ten years ago, residents living near the railway-passage from Bowes Park station began campaigning for better lighting to deter the muggers and drug-dealers who use it from time to time.

Spokesperson Mrs Andra Kleanthous, who lives in nearby Queens Road raised the matter once again at a Safer Neighbourhoods Team meeting earlier this year. Bounds Green's Liberal Democrat councillors John Oakes and Ali Demirci suggested that police produced crime statistics to support the campaign.

Councillor Oakes comments: "I must pay tribute to the Safer Neighbourhoods Team, and the staff of the Council's lighting department. I just think councillors hadn't been getting the message through properly for the last ten years."