This time last week I sat in the council offices listening to Mike Freer moaning that he had to privatise all of the council services because the Government doesn't give him enough money.
Exactly a week later this press release pops up on the Council website (click HERE to view). This week they've got the third biggest allocation in the country. I dare say Mike is toasting Gordon Brown's generosity as I write this !!!
It seems that Gordon has given Mike a nice fat cheque for over £12 Million pounds to help him build 20,000 new "Homes" (please note that in Barnetspeak a new home is a rabbit hutch flat with no garden for your kids). Now are these homes allocated to the 6,000 families on the Council waiting list? Nope. What this money will help Mike do is enact area action plans. These are scheme's to destroy vital nature reserves such as Sanders Lane and turn them into busy roads.
I'm not against new homes, but these are not for the existing residents of Barnet. If you have tried to get a child into a local school recently, you'll appreciate what effect 20,000 new households will have on the Borough. If you've been to Barnet General A&E did you wait a long time. It will only get longer you know.
Mike's grand plan is to turn Barnet into the new Elephant and Castle. Massive blocks of tiny flats, stretched services, lack of facilities. Playing fields, sports grounds and amenities are all being destroyed (HENDON & EDGWARE TOWN FC). One by one the things we love about the borough of Barnet are being destroyed.
Oppose this now, before Freer ruins Barnet.
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