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By Simon Allin @SimonAllin3 Local Democracy Reporter, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey A photo of the site in 2019 (Image: Google Maps) Councillors had to reconsider a planning application that was turned down months earlier because Enfield Council missed a key housing target. Planning chiefs admitted the only reason the plans were being re-examined was because the council’s failure to meet the Government’s housing delivery test meant councillors had to apply a “presumption in favour of sustainable development”. This means proposals should be approved “unless the adverse impacts of doing so would significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits”, according to national planning policy. ....
SARASOTA – “I will plant a lot of flowers. I will be kind to others so they will be kind to others too.” One-fifth of Americans were born with no memory of the millennial paranoia that enveloped the globe as the curtains fell on the 20th century. Anxiety over potential glitches in digital calendrical transitions triggered fears of nuclear reactor shutdowns, airliners falling from the sky, and collapsing power grids. And end-times prophecies that historically ramp up at the close of each century fed those survivalist jitters. On the other hand, there was plenty to be optimistic about. Like the Berlin Wall, the Soviet empire itself had dissolved. The euro had become the coin of the realm that would mitigate ancient European rivalries. The bloody tragedy of Vietnam turned a new page with the establishment of diplomatic relations. Indeed, a political scientist argued in “The End of History and The Last Man” that “the universalization of Western liberal d ....
By Simon Allin @SimonAllin3 Local Democracy Reporter, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey A CGI of the development (Image: We Are Aviva) Tower blocks up to 16 storeys high look set to be built in an area of low-rise homes after councillors waved through a developer’s plans. Stonegate Homes has won permission to build 148 flats at a former industrial site in Green Street, Enfield Highway. The decision means three blocks of up to five, 12 and 16 storeys can be built at the site, subject to the Mayor of London’s approval. The blocks will be significantly taller than the two-storey semi-detached homes to the north of the site, as well as the three and four-storey flats to the south and south-west. ....