Another development that might not be welcome to members is TfL’s plan to build on both car parks at Arnos Grove tube station and on Cockfosters car parks. A briefing on the Arnos Grove proposal will take place in Bowes Road Library, Bowes Road, on Wednesday June 19th from 3.30pm. A briefing on the Cockfosters proposal will take place in Church House, 1B Chalk Lane on Tuesday June 18th from 3.30. Both meetings are open to all.
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Planning application for the redevelopment of Southgate Office Village
Members should be aware of the proposed Southgate Village development on Chase Road next to the Hart pub backing onto Park Road and the railway line by M&S. This is a plan to rebuild Southgate Office Village as a mixed office and housing development, with several tall buildings, including a 17-storey tower.
The tower blocks would be visible for miles around. The development would be likely to attract a transient renting population rather than families. It would create a precedent for similar developments on other nearby sites such as Marks and Spencer.
Southgate District Civic Trust will be holding a public consultation day on June 22nd, 9.30 to 3pm at St Andrew’s Church and anyone interested is invited to attend. Following this meeting, Civic Voice will produce a planning brief to represent the community’s view on the development.
Southgate District Civic Trust flyer_SOV_2019_A5
Consultation on draft recommendations for ward boundaries in Enfiled
Draft recommendations for new wards, ward boundaries, and ward names for Enfield Council have now been published.
Comments on those recommendations are invited.
Consultation closes on 5 August 2019.
Pinkham Way
Please click on the link below to see some stunning photographs of the wildlife living on the Pinkham Way site.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/64663114@N03/sets/72157626961990241
The deadline for signing the petition to preserve the site is April 10th. If you wish to sign, details can be found at http://www.pinkhamwayalliance.org/
It’ll be a great help to PWA if supporters don’t make individual submissions. The reason is that, since this is the pre-public examination consultation, anyone who submits has the theoretical right to appear at the hearings, and all those who exercise that right will need a copy of other submissions including PWA’s.
Ahead of the 2012 hearings, so many individual submissions had been made that PWA had to spend £1200 printing multiple copies of responses!
An update on Pinkham Way
Last October, Haringey’s Regulatory Committee, under its remit to examine complex planning issues, considered the draft North London Waste Plan (NLWP). After reading and hearing evidence from PWA, and questioning officers, a cross-party majority of members, unwhipped, recommended to Cabinet that the Pinkham Way site be removed from the plan. To put it very mildly, this decision sent Council dovecotes a-flutter. The Cabinet meeting scheduled for a few days later was postponed for two months to ‘give time to line up support’. Cabinet members made alarmist and wholly inaccurate comments that Haringey would be forced to prepare its own waste plan if it didn’t approve the NLWP (ie if it exercised its right to remove the site). When the matter finally came to Full Council on January 31st, the Council could only ensure approval by whipping Labour members. So what did that meeting actually approve? One thing only, that the draft plan should be sent forward for a six-week public consultation that’ll begin shortly. Later this year or early in 2020, an independent Planning Inspector will examine the NLWP’s soundness. It goes without saying, of course, that anyone has the right to make a response to the consultation. For those who don’t wish to, PWA will as usual prepare its own submission, which, under a long-standing agreement with the NLWP, we’ll invite you to support after studying detailed bullets of the main points. If you’re making your own response, you’re more than welcome to use these if you feel they’re helpful. To study the NLWP documents, please go to: http://www.nlwp.net/document-centre/
Enfield: health and wellbeing survey
Local Plan and Draft Heritage Strategy
Enfield Council has published its draft Local Plan and draft Heritage Strategy, which are available to view on the Council’s website.
Comments on the drafts are invited up to the end of February.
Proposed Changes to Enfield Waste Collection
Walker School Development
Southgate Remembers
A week of reflecton and remembrance, with
displays and exhibits, to mark the 100th
anniversary of the end of WW1