Dear Supporters,

We need your help – please act now!

Enfield Council’s Local Plan Consultation runs until 5pm on Thursday, 28th February 2019.  We urge you and every member of your family to respond individually.  Anyone who lives, works, studies or has an interest in Enfield can respond.  You do not have to be a resident.  

Every response counts and we need to let the Council hear a resounding NO to development on any Green Belt or open spaces. It’s important the Green Belt is protected for our future generations.

Visit our website www.enfieldroadwatch.co.uk for more information about the consultation and suggested comments on Green Belt issues.  Your own thoughts and wishes need to be conveyed - not ours.  Or, you can use the response we have prepared below. Please cut and paste this into an email and include some of your own comments. Just add a few sentences on what it means to you to save the Green Belt and you do not wish to see it destroyed or removed for housing development.

Send your email response to localplan@enfield.gov.uk   Make sure to include your name and address.  Thank you all very much.

Dear Enfield Council

Response to the Local Plan Issues and Options Consultation

Thank you for the opportunity to respond to this important consultation. 

While I support housing development and support the ambition to meet Enfield’s housing needs, I strongly object to the proposal to release Green Belt for housing or other purposes.  I believe that there are alternatives available to meet housing targets and that the Green Belt is a precious resource that should be protected and preserved for future generations. 

I am particularly concerned that Crews Hill has been singled out for release from the Green Belt.   The garden centres and other businesses there provide employment and a resource for people from Enfield and beyond.  Instead of losing Crews Hill for housing, its horticultural activities should be encouraged and enhanced so that it can once again be a hub for food and plant production.

Enfield’s ambitious housing targets can be accommodated on previously-built land [brownfield].  I refer you to the report, Space to Build, Enfield which was recently published by CPRE-London, Enfield RoadWatch and The Enfield Society.  It provides evidence of sites for at least 37,000 homes, mostly in areas that need regeneration and would benefit from public transport and other infrastructure upgrades.

The Green Belt is too valuable to lose for all the many environmental, ecological, economic, public health and other reasons that have been identified.  The Council has a duty of care for the Green Belt, in accordance with the London Plan and the National Planning Policy Framework, and any intentions to release parts of it should be taken out of the local plan.

Thank you for taking my views into consideration on this important consultation.

Regards

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