Updates

20-5-26   Please join us at Enfield Civic Centre at 7pm on Wednesday May 27 for a very important Council meeting.

On May 7, more than 77% of you voted for parties that are opposed to building on the Green Belt, opposed to destroying Crews Hill, opposed to selling off Whitewebbs, and opposed to the proposed 21,000 home new town on Enfield’s countryside.  That sent a loud and clear message – but we are not quite there yet.  The results left the new council with no majority party.  The Conservatives are one seat shy of a majority, with five new Green councillors holding the balance of power.  

On Wednesday, May 27 at 7pm Enfield’s future will be decided in the Council Chamber at the Civic Centre.  It is the Annual Council Meeting when the new council leader will be elected by all the councillors.  That leader and their party will be able to appoint cabinet members and committee chairs and, very importantly, set the council’s agenda.  

It is a public meeting and we urge supporters to attend, if you can. We have voted and now we need to hold the councillors accountable.  There is limited seating in the gallery of the Council Chamber itself, but we will ask for an overflow room where you will be able to watch the live proceedings on a large screen.  If you want to be in the public gallery, arrive early.  No placards, signs or banners are allowed and people in the public gallery must be quiet.  No calling out or you might be asked to leave.  But just being there and watching says a lot.

We hope to see you there.  Thanks, as always, for your support.

20-5-26  The Government’s New Towns Consultation has now closed.  Thanks to the more than 5,500 people who visited our consultations page. We hope you found it helpful.   

15-5-26  Enfield RoadWatch has written both to Green and Conservative councillors wishing them well and reminding them of their manifesto promises.  Action for Enfield’s Future, our partner organisation, has also written an open letter to the Green Party and Conservative Party councillors, which you can read here.

13-5-26 Disappointingly, but not unexpectedly, our visit to 10 Downing Street tomorrow to deliver your thousands of letter has been cancelled.  Our grand total of letters and emails is over 3,700!  Well done – and thank you!  Our new Downing Street date is June 11, so we’ll try again then.

9-5-26  Thank you, Enfield voters!  77.2% of you voted for parties who want to save the Green Belt and Crews Hill.  That sends a loud message.  And congratulations to the Conservative and Green councillors who will make that happen.  Dispatch update.  And thank you to the 4,000+ people who took part in our letter-writing campaign to the Prime Minister opposing the new town.  We will deliver your letters to 10 Downing Street at 12:30pm on Thursday, May 14.  We hope that sends another loud message.

20-4-26 Why are we using the hashtag #noevidencenonewtown?  Because none of the decision makers – Enfield Council, the GLA, the New Towns Taskforce, the Government – have yet produced any evidence to show why the site should be such a priority.  As far as we can tell, there are only two reasons:  it has a station and Enfield Council promoted it.  Better Homes Enfield has now produced a thorough, well-evidenced report No Evidence No New Town  which explains why the proposal is so problematic and what the alternatives are.  An essential read for everyone, but especially for all those decision-makers who continue to spread misleading assumptions. 

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Who we are

Enfield RoadWatch is a local action group made up of residents around the borough who have been lobbying for the protection of the borough’s green spaces for over 12 years. We are non-party political and inclusive. With our partner organisations, we have provided evidence that building on our countryside will not solve London’s housing crisis and that there are better and more realistic solutions. We can show that the new town proposal is not based on evidence and will not produce the benefits that are promised.

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