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Chipping Barnet Liberal Democrats
Conservative in Planning Chaos.
At the Chipping Barnet Residents’ Forum the Council’s lead officer, Mike Freeman and Head of Planning, Martin Cowie, admitted that Barnet Council has NO town centre strategies or master plans.
The Deputy Chief Executive Brian Reynolds was therefore wrong when he told the Barnet Housing Conference last year that there would be studies of the 22 town centres in the Borough and that the first four would be New Barnet, High Barnet, North Finchley and Edgeware which were already under way and would be reported to Cabinet in December (2007).
Mr Freestone and other officers must have been misunderstood when they told us on a number of occasions over the past two years about the imminent publication of a New Barnet strategy.
Mr Cowie denied knowledge of the ASDA statement in their document about having discussions through 2006 on the New Barnet Town Centre Strategy.
The Area Planning Manager for Chipping Barnet Dave Prince was wrong when he said that “ The planning department was progressing the town centre planning strategy for New Barnet and it would be consulting with the community in June 2008.” Direct quote from the notes of the last meeting published by the Council’s Democratic Services Officer.
Dave Prince must also have been wrong when he emailed Lib Dem councillor Duncan Macdonald the day before stating -
"The Council is currently preparing a New Barnet Town Centre Strategy which is due to be published shortly."
Lib Dem activist Bruce Standing asked for confirmation that Mr Prentice had deliberately or inadvertently mislead the public at the last meeting and this was confirmed. Bruce then asked would Mr Prentice be disciplined for making misleading statements.
No answer was forthcoming.
Without proper town centre strategies and master plans developers, such as Asda and Tesco, are free to come up with their own ‘visions’ for Barnet’s town centres. These can then only by judged against the very limited Urban Development Plan.
The Deputy Chief Executive Brian Reynolds was therefore wrong when he told the Barnet Housing Conference last year that there would be studies of the 22 town centres in the Borough and that the first four would be New Barnet, High Barnet, North Finchley and Edgeware which were already under way and would be reported to Cabinet in December (2007).
Mr Freestone and other officers must have been misunderstood when they told us on a number of occasions over the past two years about the imminent publication of a New Barnet strategy.
Mr Cowie denied knowledge of the ASDA statement in their document about having discussions through 2006 on the New Barnet Town Centre Strategy.
The Area Planning Manager for Chipping Barnet Dave Prince was wrong when he said that “ The planning department was progressing the town centre planning strategy for New Barnet and it would be consulting with the community in June 2008.” Direct quote from the notes of the last meeting published by the Council’s Democratic Services Officer.
Dave Prince must also have been wrong when he emailed Lib Dem councillor Duncan Macdonald the day before stating -
"The Council is currently preparing a New Barnet Town Centre Strategy which is due to be published shortly."
Lib Dem activist Bruce Standing asked for confirmation that Mr Prentice had deliberately or inadvertently mislead the public at the last meeting and this was confirmed. Bruce then asked would Mr Prentice be disciplined for making misleading statements.
No answer was forthcoming.
Without proper town centre strategies and master plans developers, such as Asda and Tesco, are free to come up with their own ‘visions’ for Barnet’s town centres. These can then only by judged against the very limited Urban Development Plan.