Axing our future

Published: 19 November, 2010

• THE government has taken an axe to our local environment by scrapping the London Development Agency. 

I have no problems with the government’s plans to merge the LDA into the Greater London Authority. 

However, it is alarming that rather than transfer the agency’s budget to the Mayor of London, the government is planning to cut all but a tiny slice of the funding. Failing to secure this money for London is a major failure on Boris Johnson’s part.

Projects to insulate 200,000 homes; to plant trees and revitalise parks; to create new food-growing spaces; to support communities who want to reuse and recycle waste; all these and more will probably have to end within the next six months.

London will lose out on some wonderful opportunities for a more pleasant, healthy environment. 

DARREN JOHNSON 
Green Party, London Assembly