What's this? The Mayor of Barnet writing a guest post for his "poisonous" tormentor at Barnet Eye?
A huge glossy document entitled Cricklewood, Brent Cross and West Hendon Regeneration Development Framework arrived at my flat just before Christmas.
There we have it in full colour: a future for the western side of our borough involving various New Labour buzzwords such as "Sustainable Community", "Street Hierarchy", "Rapid Transit Systems" and other meaningless tosh designed to provide us with thousands of high-density homes for an ever-expanding population.
Call me old-fashioned, but I like our borough, with its rows of semi-detached houses and gardens and green spaces. I am the first to argue that we need to rip down the dreadful 1960s estates in which some of our council tenants live, but I fail to see the logic of replacing one failing flat-roofed estate with another higher density one.
The Eye's RogT thanks Brian for his "words of wisdom," but not before sourcing the article to No Over-Development in England, January 2004. Nicely done. Now read on.
