Bounds Green & District Residents' Association: 'Agree the PLAN first – hold off on any Planning Application'

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"A letter has been sent by Barry James (endorsed by the bgdra) to the previous Haringey Council Leader, George Meehan, who has been a key member of the North London Waste Authority (NLWA)."


" ... [Regarding the North London Waste Plan (NLWP),] it is now emerging that the formal evaluation conducted for Pinkham Way is a dishonest sham. Scores were recorded which gives:

• credit for “useful buildings” that do not exist;
• credit for direct access to the A406 when there is no direct access to the A406;
• credit for proximity to a non-existent rail-head or waterway; and
• credit for the fact that the site is not an old landfill site, when it is!

"No deductions or allowances were made in the evaluation for traffic congestion. The evaluation deleted prescribed considerations for air quality; included no considerations for noise; and awarded credit points for the site’s proximity to people’s homes.

"If you go onto the Haringey Council website, you will find the following quote from George Meehan:

"I feel it is important that local people are involved in making decisions that affect their every-day lives."

"If you really believe those fine words, George (after all you wrote them), let us see you exercise just a little bit of backbone and leadership, and get this obscene NLWA outline planning application thrown out, until the full democratic process, which was set up by you and your colleagues, has run its course." [The NLWP will not be accepted by the Government until 2012, at the earliest.]