Objection to lack of affordable housing on Barnet College (Grahame Park) site application

 

Dear Sir or Madam,

 

Re Objection to planning application Barnet College, Grahame Park Way, London, NW9 5RA, ref: 17/4373/S73

 

I am writing on my capacity as London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden to object to the above application.

 

This application is for an overdevelopment on an already overdeveloped site, in an overdeveloped part of the borough. Local schools, NHS and transport services are stretched to breaking point, and the already high density will be unbearable.

 

However, if the principle of development on this site is accepted then there must be a very clear condition on development that all units on this site must be affordable. The original application contained so few affordable units that it is not acceptable for any further development on this site not to be so.

 

Barnet is well behind target in it’s provision of affordable housing, mainly because Barnet Council do not enforce or request suitable affordable housing contributions. This scheme suffers the same problem.

 

The developers have already made substantial profits from the rest of the development, and they will again on this amendment, even if they are all affordable.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Andrew Dismore

Labour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden

 

City Hall

The Queen’s Walk

London

SE1 2AA

Andrew.dismore@london.gov.uk

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