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Jenny Jones' speech on coming 3rd in the Mayoral election
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EGP statement on the Go Ape facility in Trent Park

EGP responds to the Boundary Commission
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Greens launch candidate for Enfield & Haringey London Assembly constituency

EGP statement on Chase Farm

EGP statement on the riots

Bush Hill Park by-election - result

Greens hold packed meeting on Pinkham Way as campaigners vow to fight on

Darren Johnson responds on Pinkham Way

Jenny Jones for Mayor of London

Enfield Green Party
Manifesto for 2010

What would Green
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Greens respond to council consultation on biodiversity

Carbon-costly Civic
Centre facing chop

Council, police and
health trusts top list
of most inefficient
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Greens stake claim to be third party in London

With the Green Party's Mayoral candidate, Jenny Jones, coming third in the race for City Hall, the Green Party third in the London-wide list vote, and Greens coming third in five of the 14 constituency elections - and very close in a couple more - we have staked a claim to have replaced the sorry Lib Dems as the third party in London.

In Enfield & Haringey Peter Krakowiak increased our share of the vote and ran the Lib Dem close for third place.

As usual we outperformed the opinion polls which had us in danger of losing our two Assembly seats. In the event the question was whether we would get a third. That was not to be, but we can look forward to 2016 with optimism.

Click here for the Enfield & Haringey result in detail

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EGP policy on the MU campus in Trent Park

For 75 years the green belt around London has been protected by law. In Enfield, Trent Park forms one part of that protective belt. Indeed, it was to maintain the green belt that the park was brought into public ownership in 1952. Despite the importance of the green belt it has always included some buildings. For instance, Middlesex University (MU), and the preceding Teacher Training College, have been in the park for over 60 years.

This will soon change since MU plans to close its Trent Park campus this summer. Now the University does not merely occupy part of the park it actually owns part of it. And it is offering its 52 acre site for sale or lease with a view to 'major redevelopment' ( http://www.trentparkcampus.com/development-opportunity ). These are words that should worry anyone who cares about our environment.

The departure of the University is both threat and opportunity. The threats include loss of green belt and of access to public land. The opportunity is to reaffirm the value of the Green Belt and to fix the less attractive features of the MU campus.

Since there are no development plans no detailed comments are possible. However, Enfield Green Party (EGP) believes that whatever happens next should include the removal of some of the uglier buildings, a net decrease in the developed area, maintenance of the current public access to the site and no increase in vehicular traffic into the Park.

EGP would not resist redevelopment for educational purposes. Education is economically and culturally important and a good development could be a positive asset to the borough - especially if it exploited the location for research and teaching related to the natural environment

We would resist any residential development as this would violate the integrity of the Green Belt - one of our oldest and most valuable environmental protections.

We call on Enfield Council to adopt these principles and to inform all potential developers that it will scrutinise all development plans with the utmost care.


Published and promoted by Bill Linton for Enfield Green Party, both at 39A Fox Lane, London N13 4AJ