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By Simon Allin @SimonAllin3 Local Democracy Reporter, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Cllr Nesil Caliskan (top left) held on to power but Cllr Ayfer Orhan (bottom left) quit Labour Enfield Council leader Cllr Nesil Caliskan saw off a bid by opposition groups to bring down her administration – as yet another councillor quit Labour. The Tories failed to win the Labour votes they needed for their no-confidence motion to succeed after a fiery 45-minute debate during an extraordinary council meeting on Thursday. Held after local elections that cut Labour’s majority on the council further following a string of defections, the debate saw heated exchanges on issues such as low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), fly-tipping and council debt levels. ....
By Simon Allin @SimonAllin3 Local Democracy Reporter, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Trent Park in the north of Enfield A plan to make Enfield “the greenest borough in London” has been approved – despite concerns it does little to protect the green belt. The council’s Blue and Green Strategy, which sets out a ten-year plan for the protection, management and expansion of the borough’s waterways and green spaces, was approved at the annual council meeting on Wednesday. It is designed to inform the development of future planning policies and help achieve the borough’s aim of being carbon-neutral by 2040. The plan aims to boost blue-green infrastructure in Enfield by 25 per cent, while “protecting and improving existing assets”. ....
How can we go beyond box-ticking on diversity in architecture? While architecture is starting address its problems with race and diversity, some initiatives have been accused of ‘BAMEwashing’. Is such a label fair or helpful? We asked five architecture professionals how they feel the profession could best tackle these issues Architecture’s deep-rooted problems with racism have never been in sharper focus. In the past 12 months the industry seems to have finally started acknowledging its issues and begun taking its first real steps towards including more people from non-privileged and non-white backgrounds. Advertisement For instance, a handful of local authorities have tried, admittedly with mixed results, to open up their frameworks so that those designing the buildings better reflect those who will be using them. But there has been criticism that some of these efforts may just be hollow gestures – box-ticking exercises where black architects or practices ....