Has anyone had any thoughts about Haringey's Local Development Framework (LDF) or made any effort to respond to the
consultation?
I know that greenn8 suggested some time ago
GreenN8 discussion that it is important to respond, on the grounds that if we concerned citizens don't respond, then cunning advisors to evil forces will take us over, doing what they want rather than what we want. (A pessimistic view but probably not far off). But what should we say?
My view on the core strategy section of the LDF is that after complying with the list of directives in
Appendix A then Haringey has about as much freedom of movement in its local decision making as the average Guantanamo detainee. Council Directive 2000/69/EC Second Daughter Directive, European Commission (1999) for example states exactly how much benzene should be in the air that we breathe, and apparently Ken wants to have some control over what we eat (BetterFood for London: the Mayor’s Draft Food Strategy, Mayor of London (2005)).
My response to the consultation would therefore be that we should do a global edit on the recently completed UDP, changing all occurrences of UDP to LDF and move on, enabling the team of 7 officers currently engaged on it to do something useful (such as issuing parking tickets perhaps).
As sensible as this suggestion is, I fear it would not receive a favourable response from the council. Does anyone have a better approach?