Issue - meetings

The Deputy Leader, Councillor Vanier invited Stephen Brice of the Pinkham Way Alliance to put forward his deputation, to the Cabinet, which was in relation to item 11, The North London Waste Plan.

Mr Brice began the deputation by expressing the dissatisfaction of the Pinkham Way Alliance, to the inclusion of the Pinkham Way as a potential waste disposal site option in the North London Waste Plan. The Alliance felt that the attached report did not provide a balanced description of the Pinkham Way site and its biodiversity and open space value. Mr Brice asserted that the valuable advice from the biodiversity study had been ignored and the recommendation of the NPPF to avoid development on environmentally valuable Brownfield sites was also not given due consideration in the report.

The deputation advised that previous Council commitments to investigate the de- cultverting of the water course running under the site and also to complete an open space study had been reneged.

Mr Brice continued to contend that the Council were not being open with plans about his land and whether it could be used for employment / development purposes in the future.

The Alliance continued to express their frustration at the incomplete review of the Pinkham Way site and its subsequent inclusion in the attached North London Waste Plan.

The deputation asked Cabinet to either postpone approval of the draft waste plan, or to approve it subject to the removal of the Pinkham Way site, pending outcome of the site allocations review.

The Cabinet Member for Housing and Regeneration responded to the issues raised by the deputation and emphasised that Pinkham Way was one of 6 sites put forward as an option for use as waste disposal. This was a draft plan which was putting forward the choice for public comment. This document still provided the opportunity for the PWA to continue making the case against the inclusion of the Pinkham Way site as a potential waste disposal site. The previous promise made by Councillor Strickland remained and any final decision on the Pinkham Way site would be subject to a report at Cabinet.

The Cabinet Member for Housing and Regeneration advised that the biodiversity ecological and sync designation of the site would remain .He further assured the PWA that were currently no plans for use of this site being taken forward by the NLWA and Barnet Council.

Further to the consultation on the draft The North London Waste Plan, there will follow a statutory consultation and then further public examination of the NLWP by the Planning Inspector .Therefore, there was no final imminent decision on the choice of waste disposal sites in North London  and further opportunities for the Pinkham Way Alliance to make their case for the deletion of the Pinkham Way  option for waste disposal

The Cabinet Member for Housing and Regeneration welcomed further dialogue with the PWA in the ongoing development of the North London Waste Plan

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