Council 'clean-up' Leaves Nature Reserve In a Mess

10.43.00am UTC (GMT +0000) Tue 1st May 2007

The inadequate clear up of rubbish dumped by fly-tippers at a local nature reserve has angered local Lib Dem councillor Bob Hare . Queens Wood, situated on Queen's Wood Road in Highgate, was subject to three separate fly-tipping incidents last week whereby building materials and household rubbish has been dumped. Liberal Democrats demanded that the site was cleaned up immediately and that broken CCTV is fixed so the perpetrators may be identified. Labour run Haringey Council carried out a 'clean-up' of the area, however, rubbish was still strewn across a wide area.

Cllr Hare has now demanded that the Council clean up the residual mess and ensure that the CCTV is fixed to prevent further fly-tipping in the area.

Cllr Hare comments:

"This shows a total lack of concern for the nature reserve that is in the Council's care, not to say utter contempt for the pleasure of the many local people who go for a walk at the weekend, and for visitors from outside the borough including people on the Capital Ring walk which goes through Queens Wood.

"The woods are always going to be vulnerable to dumping, but the best defence is rapid and thorough clean-up, and rigorous attempts to gain evidence for prosecutions."