Belt up on safeguards

9:15am Friday 9th May 2008

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Last week there was a letter in this paper from Councillor Morris Bright which presented his own personal political view on the history of Woodcock Hill (Lobbying gets results, Opinion, May 2).

For the record, the Labour group rejected "safeguarding" for Woodcock Hill in 1997 preferring to keep the land as designated green belt land.Back then the Labour group thought a policy of safeguarding was wrong. The group also believed the original green belt status was much more likely to preserve the area from development.It's a matter of record that it was much later, in 2002, that the Conservative-controlled council actually put the land into safeguarded status. The Labour group's position (of which I was a member) was then, as it is now, that this area should be protected from development and should remain in the green belt.We find it odd that the notoriously "anti-political" figure of Mr Bright should wish to characterise our position on this matter at odds from the facts.Leon ReefeBadgers Close, Borehamwood