Points to make when writing to the Mayor: mayor@london.gov.uk
- We acknowledge that London has a housing crisis, but we do not believe that developing a new town on Enfield’s countryside is a viable solution to London’s urgent need for affordable housing; especially in the short term.
- At the last Mayoral election, voters supported you because of your firm commitment to protecting London’s Green Belt into the future. Your policy reversal has fuelled mistrust, anger and confusion, which will have repercussions at the local elections next May.
- The timing of the New Town announcement during the Local Plan examination process was inappropriate and disrespectful to local people who were actively engaged in the examination process. There is ample evidence that Enfield Council were working on the New Town submission behind closed doors in tandem with the Local Plan examination. This is insulting to the residents of Enfield and very hypocritical.
- The New Towns Taskforce report with respect to the proposed Crews Hill – Chase Park new town seems to rely entirely on misinformation or exaggerations provided by the Council, rather than independently researched evidence.
- Why wasn’t Meridian Water put forward as a New Town site? It is far more appropriate for intensified development and better aligned with London’s growth principles of brownfield first.
- With the Government’s budget commitment to extend the DLR to Thamesmead, why is Crews Hill still considered a top priority – or still in the list at all? If London needs and deserves two new towns, when so many are already clustered in the southern third of the country, it should be Thamesmead and Meridian Water – two brownfield sites.