Ex-councillor Alison Hopkins has lambasted the plans for a rail freight superhub next to the A5 in Cricklewood. Today is deadline day for submissions to Barnet Council - go to LINK to make a comment. Please make sure you include your email address on the online form.
Hopkins wrote:
This is a truly appalling plan which will blight the lives
of tens of thousands across Barnet and Brent. It is, of course, not planned for
the leafy glades where the wealthy live in Barnet, but right on the border with
Brent, where the less well off, the ordinary and the down right disadvantaged
live, work and go to school.
As well as the dump already planned on the doorsteps of Dollis Hill, with
hundreds of lorries a day,
Barnet now plan to impose a polluting miasma of choking dust on us. A few
hundred yards from an infants school, NEXT to a college, and behind a
supermarket? The A5 is already the most polluted road in London: this adds yet
more muck, with more ill health and more early deaths.
It’s about time Barnet listened not
only to its residents, but also to its neighbours.Brent is as badly affected by
the mess you are creating all along the A5 - and yet, you do not reply to
emails, you spread misinformation at so called consultation meetings and give
the nod to appallingly damaging plans like this.
In summary: this proposal is wholly
unacceptable on the grounds of pollution, massive traffic increases and the
utterly adverse effect on real people with real lives.
