What I’ve been doing this week…

By Lynne Featherstone (Lib Dem) • on July 19, 2009, 9:38 pm

Just to catch up with some of the events I have attended this week.One was the consultation / exhibition of the proposals for the new Hornsey Depot. The land is owned by Network Rail and they can and will build this new depot where lots of the new longer trains will come for cleaning etc.Prime concerns are obviously what this huge depot will look like and its impact on the new, still to be built, Haringey Heartlands housing development; noise, environmental impact; traffic etc.So the task is to minimise the impact on the community - and ask for as much mitigation as we can get. That includes trying to get residents and businesses that might be affected coming to the exhibition and talking to the agencies involved. Mind you, someone told me that the Haringey failed to mention the proposed depot to the Heartlands developer - even though they have known about it for two years. Really awful behaviour!It...

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