“ "And more and more green belt will be eaten up."
High Barnet station isn't green belt. Part of the problem is that we can't/won't build on our green belt. Another part of the problem is that house prices in London remain sky high, and beyond what could be reasonably expected for first-time buyers. I don't want these flats building in these places, but I recognise that a) there is a problem, and b) this is an attempt to solve said problem. The argument about surrounding infrastructure is a valid one, but that's for us to put pressure on politicians over and vote accordingly. Investing in industry outside London sounds great but in practice private companies want to be near the largest pool of customers and the largest pool of workers. Much of the public sector stuff has been or is being relocated to outside the capital, but there's not a great deal the government can do about what private companies do. ”