The Brent Cross Cricklewood (BXC) development has been around for years, but is now coming to a climax. Barnet Planning Committee are likely to consider the BXC development on 23 September, and the meeting I attended yesterday was to form a cross party coalition in opposition to it.
The meeting was organised by Brent Friends of the Earth, whose web site is here. One of the things we agreed to do was circulate a precis of the objections to the BXC scheme, which I will post on this blog once it is ready. In the meantime, anyone not familiar with Brent Cross can look it up on wikipedia here.
Essentially the main objections are the lack of public transport and orbital links, the sheer volume of traffic likely to be generated, the carbon emissions and effect on other shopping centres, such as Kilburn High Road.
The Evening Standard published a story yesterday which looks largely inspired by proponents of the BXC scheme. I hope it does not distract from the real issues.
1 comment:
Please see the Coalition's web site at
www.tiny.cc/BXblog
- and link to it!
Thanks.
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