Last night at the Area Forum we were ‘treated’ to two presentations. The First by the deputy leader of the Council Cllr Lynne Hillan on the forthcoming budget and the second by an officer on the new Local Development framework.
Cllr Hillan did her best to outline the issues, i.e. less money from central government and growing demand for services.  What was not clear was what would be sacrificed to square the circle or what the priorities of the Council would be. This was neatly sidestepped by moving onto the consultation …

Tonight is the Chipping Barnet Area Forum which is being held at Chipping Barnet Library. If you are going along I’ll see you there.

Last night I attended the Chipping Barnet Residents’ forum. The format for the forums does not work. There is either no one there with the knowledge to answer residents questions or the written answer does not actually answer the question that was put. it is also far to easy for one person to dominate proceeding to the detriment of others. My solution would be to change the way the forums operate. Instead of generic forums have specific forums to cover a particular topic. For example. If we had a Highways …