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Developer welcomes Brent Cross planned delay

9:10am Friday 16th October 2009 in


THE planned delay of the consideration of the £4.5bn Brent Cross Cricklewood regeneration plans has been welcomed by the developers.

Barnet Council announced yesterday it intends to delay the public hearing into the plans again to stage a planing committee meeting over two nights in November (see links at bottom).

They say it is to allow any members of the public who want to have their say on the issue to speak.

Jonathan Joseph, from the Brent Cross Cricklewood development partners, said: “We welcome the council's decision and it is right that people have the opportunity to express their views.

“A huge amount of careful work has been done to create a truly exemplary scheme that sets pioneering standards of environmental sustainability and will achieve the lasting regeneration of the Brent Cross Cricklewood area.

“We look forward to explaining the huge and many benefits for local people in Barnet and North West London.”

Yesterday a coalition of community groups opposed to the current plans said they wanted a public inquiry rather than a committee meeting.

They claim the current scheme will bring 29,000 extra cars to the roads, create an incinerator and create high-density living space.

However, the developers say it will only see an increase of 9,000 cars on the road, and the waste disposal plant will be a gasification facility, not an incinerator.

About £1bn of investment in public amenities is also factored into the proposals, including new schools, parks and a new high street for Cricklewood.

What do you think of the plans? Leave your thoughts below.

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Comments(5)

SAC says...
10:16am Fri 16 Oct 09

No doubt Developers would like delay but shame on Barnet council becuase they failed to their own populations for what? not a real development of the area but misery and unhealthiness. They should not forget BARNET own figures 29000 cars extra every day and Top of it INCINRATOR ( one can give it fancy name to fool)

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Jon10 says...
12:39pm Fri 16 Oct 09

The domestic waste is dried and pelleted at high temperature in the waste plant on the Edgware Road. The pellets go on a conveyor underneath the Thameslink railway line, to the incinerator near the M1 roundabout. Ash comes out of the gassifying incinerator plant there. Emissions go up the tall chimney, next to the high North Circular Road fly-over.

Somewhere the heavy metals and other contaminants survive the process. Some may be in the blood stream of workers there.

It is clearly an incinerator.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it IS a duck.

We should reduce the initial production of waste, then double the proportion of waste that is recycled, up to California and western European levels. Then we should CARRY ON using land-fill as the best of a bad lot. We are not running out of space, and the increasing land-fill levies will force local authorities to recycle more.

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Jon10 says...
12:39pm Fri 16 Oct 09

The domestic waste is dried and pelleted at high temperature in the waste plant on the Edgware Road. The pellets go on a conveyor underneath the Thameslink railway line, to the incinerator near the M1 roundabout. Ash comes out of the gassifying incinerator plant there. Emissions go up the tall chimney, next to the high North Circular Road fly-over.

Somewhere the heavy metals and other contaminants survive the process. Some may be in the blood stream of workers there.

It is clearly an incinerator.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it IS a duck.

We should reduce the initial production of waste, then double the proportion of waste that is recycled, up to California and western European levels. Then we should CARRY ON using land-fill as the best of a bad lot. We are not running out of space, and the increasing land-fill levies will force local authorities to recycle more.

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Ali H. says...
5:26pm Fri 16 Oct 09

If Mr Joseph is so sure that plants like this operate all over the place, then why doesn't he name them, so that his facts can be checked? And perhaps then, he can tell us whether the plants are covered by the EU Waste Incineration Directive at the same time, and precisely how nano particle emissions will be regulated?

Can Mr Joseph also explain how his traffic figures for extra cars suddenly got reduced immediately prior to the last postponed Planning Committee meeting? He claims that the increase is trivial: it's not trivial to those of us who actually live or work in the area.

Can he also, during the two day hearing, inform the residents of Dollis Hill why we should have extra traffic rat running in our roads? And why some roads will be blocked off completely - Oxgate Gardens - and others, such as Humber Road, will take the brunt of the heavy traffic from the Brent Cross Incinerator?

It's time for plain language rather than this continual PR led double speak. Let's have some real answers, Mr Joseph, and let's have them at a public enquiry, where you - and Barnet Council - will be cross examined by people who won't accept your puffery.

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dellertron says...
10:15pm Sat 17 Oct 09

Jonathan Joseph keeps claiimg community benefits. Problem is talking to the planning department none them actually have to be built. Given the council attitude towards and the developers greed the money making aspects of the scheme will happen and the community areas will mysteriouslt stay stuck on the drawing board indefinitely.

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