Vote for Ralph Crisp

As an active member of our local community I have established strong direct links with senior managers in:

Waste collection, Street Cleansing & Recycling at Haringey Accord

Street lighting

Highways (Traffic & road safety)

Tree section

Resulting in:

Interim safety bollard installed at junction of Hornsey Lane & Stanhope Road (not pretty but effective - my campaign slogan!)

Trees planted in Hornsey Lane Gardens

Reduction of excess double yellow lining in the Miltons area

Ensuring some parking retained along Hornsey Lane

Potholes fixed

Street cleansing improvements

Replacement of gas services being carried out more efficiently and conveniently for residents

Dormant street works kick-started

Action on delayed water leak repairs

On Crime:

The reduction in crime, particularly burglaries and theft, is crucial in our community and is one of my top priorities.

As a leading member of the Neighbourhood Watch movement in Haringey, I have established strong links with the Police and I have a realistic understanding of crime in Highgate.

I chair regular meetings of Neighbourhood Watch Coordinators in Highgate and also chair meetings of the Borough Association of Neighbourhood Watches. Through these roles and by working with other local people I was able to help ensure that our Highgate Permanent Beat Manager was issued with a bike and training and I will continue to campaign for greater police resources for Highgate.

Pirate radio:

I was instrumental in ridding the area of pirate radio broadcasts from the rooftops of Northwood Hall, these pirate transmitters were usually installed in such a way as to create permanent property damage and through blocked chimneys and vents physical dangers to residents.

On Local Democracy:

Local governance should be about local issues & looking after the people in our community. I have been a vigilant, regular and active participant in the local Area Assemblies since their inception and have made numerous suggestions that have been taken up by the Council. Not least that sessions labelled as You talk, we listen, are just that, and not We talk, you listen!

On local business:

Our local shops are essential, particularly for the less able bodied and those without cars. They perform a vital caring role in our community.

We must do all we can to support our small independent shopkeepers, who are struggling to compete with the large chains. Councils must reduce their business rates if small shops are to survive.

During the last two years since the last election nothing has been achieved for shopkeepers on the Archway Road, nor has anything meaningful been achieved in Highgate Village, which still remains divided between two boroughs.

Haringey Councils 'snails pace culture must be forced to change!

Current areas of activity include:

Ensuring that CCTV is properly used to cut theft & vandalism in local shopping areas rather than penalising local motorists for further town hall profit.

Campaigning for Hornsey Town Hall Car Park to be opened to the public now to the benefit of residents shoppers and businesses within Crouch End.

Haringey's strategy of the "Greenest Borough" includes a programme of replacing street lighting - but the option chosen for Highgate is the cheapest - ignoring Highgate's status as a conservation area - it was the attempt to impose these sub-standard items of street furniture some 14 years ago that brought me into active campaigning - I won the battle then in Hornsey Lane Gardens and the Miltons, I have been fighting since then on many other areas of concern, and I shall continue to fight on this same and many other issues now. Unlike some local politicians I don't just appear at election time or consider that membership of a team (that is a political party) is my primary concern.

My primary concern is you!

I am a regular correspondent in the local press, regularly raising issues and challenging the Council whenever necessary.