Another Bit of Green Space About to Bite the Dust?

By iluvgreenery | Sunday, March 21, 2010, 13:19

By iluvgreenery

I have lived in Oakwood for over 50 years. During that time I have watched each large garden or piece of open space gradually disappear.

Gwalior House Garden Area

The latest green space to be threatened is the beautiful garden area of Gwalior House in Avenue Road N14. Gwalior House is the name of three blocks of flats owned by The Foyle Foundation, a charitable trust with assets worth £68 million as at 2008. The Foyle Foundation have applied for planning permission to build 14 houses on the residents' gardens. This leads to a number of questions.

Why are they claiming that this land is separate from the flats when it has been used by residents as gardens ever since the flats were built and residents have paid for the maintenance of those gardens?

The Foyle Foundation claim to have distributed over £36 million in grants since 2001. They seem to be a wealthy charity, so why are they taking away the gardens from their tenants and destroying this precious piece of green space to make more money?

Please feel free to contact the Foyle Foundation for answers to these questions - info@foylefoundation.co.uk. You can also make comments about the planning application to development.control@enfield.gov.uk before 29th March 2010.

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Reposted this story as the owners are trying again to get planning permission. This has been going on since 2005. Deadline for comments on this latest application is 7th Jan 2013 - planning ref TP/11/1307 email richard.laws@enfield.gov.uk

By GreenEnfield at 07:17 on 05/01/13
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They did refuse permission when the owners applied for outline planning permission in 2005, but The Foyle Foundation appealed and won.

By iluvgreenery at 06:09 on 23/03/10
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This is terrible news - we need our green spaces and it sounds like the residents have a right to keep their gardens having paid a maintenance charge presumably for some years. The council is allegedly investing a lot of cash and time in parks and green spaces around the borough - I wonder if they'll practice what they're preaching and refuse planning permission for this?

By helenochyra at 12:50 on 22/03/10
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