Enfield Dispatch provides good background on why this election is so important and will cover the campaign extensively.
Here is the Dispatch preview of what’s to come in the upcoming local election .
We hope to add to this page once all the parties have published their manifestos and provide some answers to the questions we have posed above.
Dispatch reports that: as well as the Tories, the Liberal Democrats, Greens, Reform UK and Enfield Community Independents have all pledged to save the Green Belt from development should they win power in May. That leaves Labour as the only party pushing for Green Belt development.
Dispatch outlines what the parties are promising this year.
Conservative party manifesto [click on the image]
Green Party manifesto [click on image]
.The Greens also provided the following statement about the Green Belt:
The Green Belt is vital to London. Its hills feed our streams. Its trees clean our air. Its views refresh our soul. And it cools the planet.
Enfield’s Green Belt is not optional. So we are against building a ‘new town’, actually a suburb, at Crews Hill and the leasing of Whitewebbs Park Golf Course to a football club. As the party of the environment we have, and seek, no other choice.
This is not to prioritise nature over people. Enfield needs more housing, especially council housing. But it should prioritise bringing more empty homes back into use. And it should build new homes on the many brownfield sites in our borough.
Labour Party manifesto [click on image]
