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LB Enfield plans open-up green belt land around Crews Hill for housing development
In its latest newsletter, the Enfield Society has shared plans laid out by the London Borough of Enfield for 5,00 houses to be built on green belt land around Crews Hill.
The London Borough of Enfield recently released its new Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) which lists sites that could be developed for housing in the next fifteen years.
The Society and other Civic groups are very concerned to see not only many small sites included, but also 28 Green Belt sites covering 330 hectares. Despite the protections for Green Belt contained in the National Planning Policy Framework and the new London Plan, all these sites are shown as ‘potentially developable’ in the plan.
The society produced a map showing the areas under threat.
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Permalink Reply by Classical Contrarian on
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The northern part is mostly brownfield and a golf course (always prime redevelopment)
But the southern section 1&2 are agri land and need to be protected!
Shameful councils as usual.
Problem is, if you vote labour and the target is to build hundreds of thousands of homes, where do you expect they are to be built
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What does voting Labour have to do with it?
It is the Tories that are cynically picking the planning restrictions apart, allowing predatory speculative "developers" to wreak havoc in residential neighbourhoods.
And the Tories that brought in Right to Buy, that destroyed social housing provison in England. They (the Tories, now a pick-up-side of a governmnet, with an untrustworthy scoundrel as its head) have been in power for over 10 years now.
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Planning permission is still granted by the local authority and so is the chosen area for development
Right to buy increases housing available on the market...
Yes, obviously not selling off houses means the council has housing, but if you need more housing, you need to build it, those houses are still in the housing pool.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I don’t think you’re right about the northern areas. Yes, the golf course, but the areas around Crews Hill include an area hosting the well known horticulture businesses, but a lot of it is still open fields. Check Google satellite view.
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They are fields with existing buildings on them, which I think changes the land 'use' no?
I think an empty field is very difficult to build on, but a field with a barn, warehouse etc, even in the corner can be developed more easily from a friend's experience trying to convert.
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Whether or not a building in the corner of a field changes it's official use, the overall feel and character of the area is very much green and much of it natural. Building up this area will also encroach on the wilder lands to the west.
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For sure, I would be well against it, but part of it being a golf club with a building on it, I believe makes it much easier to push through.
I believe that Bushey is having a battle with developers on a massive development planned for a golf club too.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Changes to planning law that allow this have been made by the current government, not the local authority
https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/sweeping-reforms-will-give...
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Planning permission is still granted by the local authority and so is the chosen area for development.
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Permalink Reply by Bob Ruggles on
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Joys of people demanding to stay in old areas and demanding Housing
There is a fair amount of unused land, in the area
Was surprised when collecting a car for test drive that was stored on a area behind unused green houses. There Was cars spread over several football sized areas
Could see other similar areas being used by garages
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