“ I also knew Gwyneth Cowing and heard first hand her intention for the future of Whalebones. This isn't it. You see this time and time again when significant bequests to communities become just another ripe commercial opportunity as soon as wriggle room can be found to seize it. The preservation of a reasonable amount of green space in urban areas is something that sets the UK's town's and cities apart. There seems to to to a gradual erosion of what makes Barnet Barnet. In and around the town individual trees, pockets of grassland and other historic amenities are being eroded or disappearing entirely. Always the dubious justification is commercial or planning necessity. Very soon historic Leafy Barnet could be gone. This is set to become yet another conspicuous parcel of Barnet heritage that is lost for ever, reduced to a small island lost in a sea of new developments. Google our MP Theresa Villiers's petition on this if you also oppose this project. ”