Barnet High Street is threatened by an increase in heavy goods vehicles. Barnet Friends of the Earth's first concern is the increase in vehicle pollution that will affect shoppers.
Current council monitoring in the High Street demonstrates the air quality to be in the top five of the most heavily polluted areas in the whole of the borough.
Planning permission was granted to Bridgedown Golf Course by Hertfordshire County Council for a redesign of the course that necessitated almost 500,000cu m of inert waste arriving at the site. The legal agreement specified that this would only arrive and exit from the direction of the M25. Bridgedown Golf Club assured the local residents that this would be so. For many people these reassurances muted opposition.
As the project got underway, however, the legal agreement was soon breached and now an application has been received for a variation on the legal agreement that will allow lorries to access the site via Barnet.
Many local organisations are writing in opposition but Hertfordshire County Council need to hear the opposition from residents too.
Sue Bird
Co-ordinator, Barnet Friends of the Earth
October 30, 2001 17:06
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