14 June 2011:
"Nothing online yet. We have been told that the delay is because the Haringey Planning Department have requested additional paperwork from the NLWA and from Barnet.
"It is also believed that a request was made for the joint application from the NLWA and Barnet to be submitted separately, but that Barnet refused. We can only speculate that Barnet have retained a ransom strip, when they sold a portion of Pinkham Wood to the NLWA.
"Perhaps Barnet Council would be kind enough to clarify this for us?
"Some people, those who haven't grasped the size and scale of this proposal, and the impacts of it on public health, have dismissed our alliance as NIMBY-ism. But what do you call Barnet Council, which seems ultra-keen to park its fleet of rubbish trucks in a neighbouring borough?
"It is our understanding that the public consultation period will run from July until October, maybe November. We have also been told that there will be three planning development forums, one in each borough (i.e. Barnet, Enfield, Haringey)."
Our comment: it will be necessary to establish the exact statutory status of the three meetings, since Barnet and Enfield Council's Planning Departments will presumably make submissions to Haringey Council, which is the Local Planning Authority.
Barnet has never held a 'planning development forum' before - it just steamrollers planning matters, as part of its 'Three Strands' (2004): Protect the Green Belt, Enhance the Pretty Bits, Get the Dustcarts out of the Borough [We made that last one up]. But then it may be a Haringey forum, just out of the borough.
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