Dear Supporters

Season’s Greetings from the Enfield RoadWatch campaign group and many thanks to the thousands of people who have already signed our petition.  We need your help again, please!

Enfield’s revised local plan Issues and Options consultation is now active with the consultation running until 5pm on 28th February 2019. (Links to the documents are at the end of this update.)

We are asking anyone who is an Enfield resident or who is employed or studying within the Borough to take part in this consultation as Enfield’s Green Belt comes under increasing attack.

What are the Council’s plans for the Green Belt?

The consultation itself says little about the Council’s underlying plans for the Green Belt.  These can only be found in other related documents and are alarming.  

Councillor Ahmet Oykener has been quoted in the Enfield Independent saying:

“Our local plan options include looking at a tiny section – approximately five to seven per cent – of Green Belt and considering whether it may be suitable for quality and affordable homes for families”

(Note: 5-7% of Enfield’s Green Belt is as much as 214 hectares / 529 acres or 10x the size of a number of our parks)

Because the consultation is long and complicated, with some questions needing background knowledge or research and others that are a bit confusing or misleading, you may prefer to wait until we post comments and guidance early in the New Year on our website at:    https://enfieldroadwatch.co.uk/     The consultation is, of course, about much more than the future of the Green Belt, but we will restrict our comments to areas that could influence the Green Belt.

For light reading here are links for the Local Plan consultation:

Link to the Local Plan consultation home page: https://new.enfield.gov.uk/services/planning/planning-policy/local-plan/

From here you can download the 52-page consultation survey summary draft new Local Plan 2036 (PDF) and the 216-page draft local plan draft new Local Plan 2036 (PDF) (LP2036). This longer document contains much more detail about the Council’s plans for the Green Belt than are mentioned in the consultation.

The 2010 Core Strategy and the 2014 Development Management Document can also be accessed from this page.

This is an extremely important consultation for the future of the borough’s Green Belt and we encourage everyone who can to have their say.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT!