Your local Conservative Councillors fight to save Clarendon Park

 

After pledging to support residents in their fight to stop a proposed redevelopment of Clarendon Park, Councillor Harvey Cohen spoke at a recent meeting of the Executive at Hertsmere Borough Council.

At that meeting, officers had put forward a proposal to redevelop part of Clarendon Park and a disused building.

 

Local Councillors, Harvey Cohen and Andrew Zucker had pledged at a public meeting that they convened last year that they would do all they can to stop any plans to lose part of Clarendon Park.

 

At the meeting of the executive, Councillor Cohen spoke about the importance of Urban green spaces and parks.

"People need parks. Good parks provide a place for rest and relaxation, but more importantly they are places for spontaneous social interaction. Places with good social capital are stable, prosperous places where people want to live and work. It is not easy to build social capital, but it easy to build the spaces where social capital can form, and small, urban parks are some of the very best spaces for this. We should not be reducing them."

 

Whilst agreeing that the disused and run-down building in the park needs redeveloping, Councillors Cohen and Zucker urged the officers of the Council to re-think their plans and come up with a new idea to which actually involves upgrading the facilities of the present Park .

 

The executive Councillors agreed , at this meeting, not to proceed with the proposal , and urged officers to come back with a new plan that will be acceptable to the ward councillors, local residents and the four parks association.