Haringey residents have claimed for compensation from the council almost 300 times in the last two years after they injured themselves on broken pavement a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

Unfortunately the request doesn’t deal with the amount of compensation which was issued.

The Haringey Independent reports:

A Freedom of Information request reveals 159 claims were made during the financial year of 2010 to 2011, with 119 people claiming between 2011 and 2012.

The figures come less than six months after Haringey was named by the Department of Transport as having the worst maintained roads in the country.

You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.