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What happened to this proposal?
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Cockfosters car park housing development: More details

22 Jan 2020 22:39 #5184

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The exhibition boards used at last week's public exhibition of the proposed housing development on the car park at Cockfosters station are now available online.

If you were unable to attend, you can find out more by contacting Keir Harris:

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31 Jan 2020 01:00 - 31 Jan 2020 01:02 #5185

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The Enfield Dispatch website carries a report by Local Democracy Reporter Simon Allin on a petition against the housing development organised by the Cockfosters Local Area Residents Association (Clara).

The report also points out that while the Federation of Enfield Residents Associations has claimed that "Hundreds of commuters dependent on parking to access the Piccadilly Line will be displaced", Transport for London's surveys suggest that closing the car park could actually reduce traffic driving in from Hertfordshire and parking at Cockfosters:

"Three-quarters of people who use Cockfosters Station car park travel in from outside the M25, with less than a fifth coming from Enfield and Barnet. Around 95% of car park users have a rail station closer to their home than Cockfosters."

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31 Jan 2020 09:37 #5189

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Great to see TFL standing up to the NIMBYs with some hard data. Get it built and stop letting BANANAS halt progress and stifle opportunity for others.

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31 Jan 2020 10:04 #5192

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I vote for a new rule that if you introduce words such as BANANAS you are obliged to explain them

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31 Jan 2020 10:15 #5194

Darren Edgar

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HAHA whoops, sorry Karl, though I did enjoy Colin's TINA explanation which was a new one for me!

Build
Absolutely
Nothing
Anywhere
Near
Anything

Basically it's the 20th century NIMBY on steroids as suffered these days.

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