Member

I support new clause 33 in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Leicestershire (Mr Bedford). The impact of large-scale developments does not end at the local authority boundary. The new town proposed at Crews Hill is in the London borough of Enfield, but it is closer to the village of Goffs Oak in my Broxbourne constituency than it is to Enfield town hall. Goffs Oak residents, whose lives have already been transformed by the development, have told me that they have had enough. They have expressed huge concern about the impact that 21,000 new homes will have on local infrastructure. The new town will be next door to Chase Farm hospital, which is used by many of my constituents and is already under significant strain, and on junction 25 of the M25, which is extremely busy and prone to regular accidents, putting drivers in danger and causing gridlock on the towns of Cheshunt and Waltham Cross.