STOP PRESS: The London Borough of Barnet has issued a request for comments on the Mill Hill East Area Action Plan – SUBMISSION DOCUMENT - as the final part of the consultation process to be received by 5.00pm on the 23rd June 2008. The documents can be downloaded from the LBB website www.barnet.gov.uk/planning-consultations .
If you have comments on the proposals then you must use the official Representations Form available by email from millhilleast@barnet.gov.uk or by post to Ms V Ram, Programme Officer, Planning Housing and Regeneration, London Borough of Barnet, North London Business Park, Building 4, Oakleigh Road South, London N11 1NP.
Mill Hill East development site: The saga as to what might be built on the old Barracks Site goes on. We have now had a chance to examine the new AAP SUBMISSION DOCUMENT and realise, much to our disgust, that none of the points we raised in our last submission have been taken into account. Nevertheless we shall be preparing a further submission document which will be submitted by the required date.
We hope with the advent of the new Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, that the proposal to increase in the number of housing units nearer 3,500 will disappear. The Society still feel the proposal is based on too high a density, has too little open space, and embodies unacceptable traffic proposals. We are amazed there is not more ‘hue and cry’ about these proposals. If 2,500 houses equates to 7,500 people then this will be a large increase on the population figures for Mill Hill based on the 2001 Census. At our recent AGM we complained bitterly to council members about the lack of Tree Preservation Orders on the many good quality trees on the site. Trees are important, not just because they are pleasant to look at, but they also ‘press all the right buttons’ when it comes to global warming, as we found out at our Winter Meeting. If you wish to object get some forms and write to the address given above.
Development at Hartley Avenue and Flower Lane: The developer and his architect attended a meeting at The Studio recently to explain the scheme and to hear the reservations of our Committee. This could be a good scheme – the most important aspect being the new hall that will replace Hartley Hall. This is a case where ‘making change worthwhile’ will really apply if the outcome is a good new performance hall for Mill Hill. The scheme will be submitted for planning approval soon.
Sir Maurice Laing: It is with great sadness that we report that Sir Maurice Laing passed away on 22nd February 2008 aged 90. Sir Maurice, industrialist and first president if the CBI, whose family construction business (based then in Page Street) built the first Motorway in Britain, was a keen supporter of the Society. He was knighted in 1965 after the completion of the early sections of the M1. Sir Maurice was a good friend of the Green Belt and the Totteridge Valley and supported the Society against those who would change its beauty.
Simmond’s Mead Village Green Application: ‘A Success’: A village green is legally defined as an area where people in the community have enjoyed legitimate sports or pastimes for at least twenty years. On the 7th of November 2007, the application to register Simmond’s Mead as a Village Green went before Barnet Council’s Planning & Environment Committee, and was approved.
Simmond’s Mead is the area of land at the Lawrence Street junction with the A41. It will now be registered as a Village Green under the “COMMONS REGISTRATION ACT, 1965, SECTION 13”. This means that although it is owned by the Council, it is now protected against development and must be kept for use by members of the public. (go to ‘articles’ for full article)
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