Chipping Barnet Residents' Forum
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POSTED ON WEB 23 JULY CHIPPING BARNET RESIDENTS’ FORUM MEETING HELD ON 19 JUNE 2007 ACTION NOTES at 6.30pm held at: Foulds Primary School, Byng Road, Barnet EN5 4NR *Chairman: Councillor Andreas Tambourides Vice-Chairman: *Councillor Bridget Perry * Denotes Councillor Present Issue Raised Response at the Meeting Update (and by whom) 1. A resident asked why the The Council resolved on 17 April No further update required. forum had been renamed 2007, on the recommendation of the Chipping Barnet Residents Constitution Review Committee, that Forum instead of Barnet Area with effect from 2007/08 the Area (Contact: Flick Heron - 020 Forum as this suggested that Forums be amalgamated to form 8359 2205) New and East Barnet were three to correspond with the now excluded and why was no Constituency boundaries and the reasonable point of contact Area Planning and Area was given on the distributed Environment Sub-Committees. posters - No name, no telephone number, no address It was also considered appropriate and no email address. to rename the forums Residents’ Forums emphasising that the forums are first and foremost for residents of the areas. Therefore the Chipping Barnet Residents’, Hendon Residents’ and Finchley and Golders Green Residents’ Forums were formed. The area covered by the Chipping Barnet Residents’ Forum covers the entirety of the Chipping Barnet parliamentary constituency. With regard to the posters, these do contain a telephone number, and the posters advertising the Forums individually also contain an email address although this does not appear on the poster which gives details of all three Forums. Consideration will be given to adding a contact name and postal address to the posters and the email address to the combined poster. 1 POSTED ON WEB 23 JULY The resident then suggested The Chairman responded by saying that more Ward Councillors that both he and his Vice Chairman should be present to represent Councillor Perry were at the the various areas of the meeting. In addition, Councillors constituency. Joanna Tambourides and MacDonald were present and seated within the audience. 2. A resident referred to The The planning application submitted (Contact Jo Dowling – 020 Jewish Community Secondary by JCoSS for development at the 8359 4926) School (JCoSS) who had now former East Barnet School at submitted their application to Westbrook Crescent was registered A more extensive account to redevelop the former East on 25th May, 2007 and was currently all issues raised both prior to Barnet School Westbrook the subject of consultation in the the meeting and during the Crescent site and it was locality comprising 7 site notices in meeting are appended to this understood that the ASDA the area, a press notice and action sheet at Appendix A. proposals for a new individual letters to some 700 local The views expressed by supermarket on the Albert residents, the closing date for residents have been referred Road gas works site were th responses being 27 June, 2007. to the Council’s Planning proceeding quickly. Department to form part of With regard to the Gas Works site at the ongoing public He asked whether the Council Albert Road, New Barnet, it was consultation in respect of this could assure residents that understood that it had been acquired issue. the JCoSS application would by Asda but no planning application not be considered until after had been received by the Council. the New Barnet Environmental and Impact The JCoSS application had been assessment had been accompanied by an Environmental published, consulted upon Impact Assessment. This document widely within the community included a Transport Assessment for and appropriate measures the proposed development which agreed to address the big formed part of the application and increase in traffic that both was available for inspection as were developments would the other supporting documents generate. He also asked what submitted as part of the application. measures were the Council The traffic implications of the considering to address the proposal would be taken into extra traffic. account when the application was determined. 2 POSTED ON WEB 23 JULY 3.It was the view of a resident Whilst a Department of (Contact Ros Ward - 020 that from April 2007 new rules Communities and Local Government 8359 4657) available to Local Planning spokesman had been similarly Authorities had strengthened quoted in the latest issue of their powers to resist new “Planning”, officers were not aware development on private house of the introduction of such legislation gardens which had previously and the Council was continuing to been classed as brown field check the accuracy of this sites. Councils now had the statement. Irrespective as to ability to set policies that whether or not residential gardens specifically protect garden land were included within the definition of and separate this out from “brownfield land”, policies within the their wider brown field Council’s adopted Unitary development targets. He Development Plan (UDP) seek to asked what steps had Barnet encourage development proposals taken to adopt these new that respected local character and powers and when would they amenity of existing as well as come into effect. He also potential residents and occupiers. asked where could residents see the changes. In addition the Council had developed the Three Strands Approach to development within the borough under the banner of “Protection, Enhancement , Growth” which would provide a vision and direction to future planning and development within Barnet. This would be taken forward in the Local Development Framework (LDF) which would be a statutory development plan – replacing the UDP- and would underpin the vision and philosophy for developing the spatial policies and Area Action Plans. Strand Two is Enhancement which seeks to “Protect and enhance the best of Barnet suburbia” and would provide strong planning policy protection for preserving the character and 3 POSTED ON WEB 23 JULY openness of lower density suburbs and conservation areas. Lower traditional suburban densities applied where the character of the area was traditional high quality nineteenth century as well as 1920’s or 1930’s two storey housing with wide plots and spacious private gardens or surrounding open space and significant tree coverage. Further details of the Three Strands Approach could be obtained from the Council’s website www.barnet.gov.uk. 4. A resident asked Why did The application included proposals (Contact Jo Dowling – 020 Barnet's officers for a new access driveway along the 8359 4926) require JCoSS to provide a north eastern side of the site which it new road and bridge as part of was proposed to link with Please see Appendix A. their planned development in Castlewood Road by means of a New Barnet. new bridge across Pymmes Brook. This would be considered on its merits when the application was determined. 5. The resident then said that The comments raised in respect of (Contact Jo Dowling – 020 residents had seen the JCoSS the merits or otherwise of the 8359 4926) Green Travel Plan (GTP) and proposed Green Travel Plan would said it was not worth the paper be taken into account when the Please see Appendix A. it was written on. He asked application was considered. what was the Council doing to ensure that there was a robust, viable, legally binding GTP. He also asked whether Barnet had consulted other Local Authorities and what lessons had they learned. Would there be a revised GTP before the Planning Committee met to consider the application and if not why not? 4 POSTED ON WEB 23 JULY 6. A resident referred to the This will be considered by parking The location has now been junction of Monks Avenue and officers. A survey at different times inspected and due to the Longmore Avenue, New of the day will be carried out to presence of parked vehicles Barnet. establish whether there is a sightline obstructing sightlines and Cars parked in Longmore problem and the extent of it. Officers impacting on safety at this Avenue close to the junction will then make the appropriate location, Officers will be meant that drivers leaving recommendation on whether to progressing a proposal to Monks Avenue were unable to install yellow lines. introduce double yellow line get a clear line of sight. restrictions at the junction which would prohibit vehicles Looking both ways and edging from parking at any time. out into fast moving traffic had resulted in near misses and, Assuming Council approval as he understood, accidents will be given for the proposal, including a fatal accident a few the restrictions will be years ago had resulted. advertised on a statutory basis in September 07, and Monks Avenue was used not assuming all statutory only by residents of Monks requirements are met, the Avenue and roads off it, but by double yellow lines should be drivers avoiding delays at the introduced on-street by the Netherlands Road and end of the year. Longmore Avenue junction. Contact: Neil Richardson, As drivers were not following Senior Engineer 020 8359 Highway Code 7525 recommendations on parking near junctions he asked whether consideration could be given to the provision of double yellow lines at this junction. 7. A resident requested an The Leader of the Council initiated a (Contact: Gillian Palmer update on the rebuild of consultation exercise in May this 020 8359 7642) Fould’s School. year on the future of Fould’s School. The comments made by This set out four options for local residents at the meeting have people to consider. These were: been referred to the appropriate department who To retain the current Fould’s site and are currently preparing the refurbish only: options. Retain current Fould’s site, refurbish The issues raised at the and extend to 2 forms of entry: meeting and referred on are attached to the action sheet Rebuild Fould’s on the existing site: at Appendix B 5 POSTED ON WEB 23 JULY Build a new school on an alternative site The responses to these options were now being analysed and the outcome would be announced as soon as possible.