There's a referendum today in West Hampstead and Fortune Green to approve the Neighbourhood Development Plan and your local Conservatives are backing a big YES vote. The Plan uses powers introduced by the Conservative-led government in 2011 and gives local people greater say over what happens in their community. Our local team, led by Ian Cohen and Andrew Parkinson, have been heavily involved in the team that developed the Plan and we think it will greatly strengthen our community:
- YES to affordable housing. Not enough affordable housing is being built: making it more and more difficult to buy in West Hampstead. West Hampstead Conservatives support 50% affordable housing in new developments - as required in the Neighbourhood Plan - not the 4% as at Labour’s Liddell Road development.
- YES to banning skyscrapers. Our area is under threat from skyscrapers, such as Camden Labour’s Liddell Road tower. Your local Conservatives want to preserve our area and back the West Hampstead Neighbourhood Plan’s ban on inappropriately tall buildings in West Hampstead and Fortune Green.
- YES to local jobs. West Hampstead is a great place to live, but it has to be a great place to work, too. The West Hampstead Neighbourhood Plan protects job-creating local businesses - backed by your local Conservatives. The Plan would have saved the 250 jobs lost at Liddell Road.
- YES to green spaces. In a bustling area, green spaces are even more important, and they need protecting: from West End Green to Gondar Gardens Reservoir. West Hampstead Conservatives welcome the protections offered by the Neighbourhood Plan - and the requirement that new developments include green space.
You can find out more about the Plan at www.ndpwesthampstead.org.uk. Polls are open until 10pm - so please don't forget to vote YES.