13.1In the name of Councillor Barry:
“If the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is agreed, the people of Enfield will lose many of the regulations that protect their environment, their food and their rights as workers.
A report commissioned by the Government concluded that TTIP offers “few or no benefits to the UK while having meaningful economic and political costs.”
This Council resolves:
• To call on the Government to put the national interests of our people above those of big businesses and to reject this agreement.
• To write to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, local MPs, MLAs, and all London MEPs raising our serious concerns about the impact of TTIP on local authorities and the secrecy of the negotiating process.
• To write to the Local Government Association to raise our serious concerns about the impact of TTIP on local authorities and ask them to raise these with Government on our behalf.
• To call for an impact assessment on the impact of TTIP on local authorities.
• To publicise the Council’s concerns about TTIP; join with other local authorities which are opposed to TTIP across Europe and work with local campaigners to raise awareness about the problems of TTIP.
• To contact the local authorities of municipalities twinned with Enfield asking them to consider passing a similar motion on TTIP.”
13.2 In the name of Councillor Alessandro Georgiou:
“This Council recognises that the Union Flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a symbol of Freedom and represents all that is great about the United Kingdom.
The Council will therefore have the Union Flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland present in all full Council meetings. The flag will have a prominent place either hanging behind the Mayor of Enfield’s chair or on a flagpole to the right of the Mayor.”
13.3In the name of Councillor Maguire:
“This council is appalled that the services that out local communities rely on continue to face deep cuts in Government funding. Enfield Council has already shouldered £118m of cuts since 2010 and is faced with further cuts in excess of £50m by 2020.
This Labour Administration, in partnership with officers, has worked hard to find innovation ways to save money, to continue to deliver services and to give best value to the people of Enfield. This Council thanks officers and members for their dedication and commitment in dealing with those cuts in a sensitive and constructive manner.
However, further cuts to funding will leave this Council struggling to deliver the services that the people of Enfield need and deserve.
This Council resolves to work with the Local Government Association, politicians, community organisations, the charity and voluntary sector, to expose the damaging and dangerous nature of these cuts and impress on the Government the need to reverse them and to fund local government properly.”
13.4In the name of Councillor Nesil Cazimoglu:
“The country, particularly London, is facing a housing crisis and residents in Enfield are feeling the effects. This Council believes that the government’s Housing and Planning Bill will only make the situation worse; and that the only real solution is to build more homes.
House building is at its lowest since the 1920’s; private rents have increased by 37% in the past five years and the government continue to use billions of pounds of public money to subsidise private landlords through housing benefit.
The Housing and Planning Bill would:
There is no commitment in the Bill that affordable homes will be replaced like-for-like in the local area.
This Council resolves that the Bill undermines localism by granting the Secretary of State the power to override local plans, to mandate rents for social tenants and to impose a levy on stock-holding councils, violating the terms of the Housing Revenue Account self-financing deal.
This Council calls on the government to grant local authorities the powers and financial ability to increase the supply of housing for our residents. Councils must be given the financial flexibilities they need to be able to scale up housing development, both in partnership and directly.”
Minutes:
The following motions listed on the agenda lapsed due to lack of time:
1.1 In the name of Councillor Barry:
“If the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is agreed, the people of Enfield will lose many of the regulations that protect their environment, their food and their rights as workers.
A report commissioned by the Government concluded that TTIP offers “few or no benefits to the UK while having meaningful economic and political costs.”
This Council resolves:
• To call on the Government to put the national interests of our people above those of big businesses and to reject this agreement.
• To write to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, local MPs, MLAs, and all London MEPs raising our serious concerns about the impact of TTIP on local authorities and the secrecy of the negotiating process.
• To write to the Local Government Association to raise our serious concerns about the impact of TTIP on local authorities and ask them to raise these with Government on our behalf.
• To call for an impact assessment on the impact of TTIP on local authorities.
• To publicise the Council’s concerns about TTIP; join with other local authorities which are opposed to TTIP across Europe and work with local campaigners to raise awareness about the problems of TTIP.
• To contact the local authorities of municipalities twinned with Enfield asking them to consider passing a similar motion on TTIP.”
1.2 In the name of Councillor Alessandro Georgiou:
“This Council recognises that the Union Flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a symbol of Freedom and represents all that is great about the United Kingdom.
The Council will therefore have the Union Flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland present in all full Council meetings. The flag will have a prominent place either hanging behind the Mayor of Enfield’s chair or on a flagpole to the right of the Mayor.”
1.3 In the name of Councillor Maguire:
“This council is appalled that the services that out local communities rely on continue to face deep cuts in Government funding. Enfield Council has already shouldered £118m of cuts since 2010 and is faced with further cuts in excess of £50m by 2020.
This Labour Administration, in partnership with officers, has worked hard to find innovation ways to save money, to continue to deliver services and to give best value to the people of Enfield. This Council thanks officers and members for their dedication and commitment in dealing with those cuts in a sensitive and constructive manner.
However, further cuts to funding will leave this Council struggling to deliver the services that the people of Enfield need and deserve.
This Council resolves to work with the Local Government Association, politicians, community organisations, the charity and voluntary sector, to expose the damaging and dangerous nature of these cuts and impress on the Government the need to reverse them and to fund local government properly.”
1.4 In the name of Councillor Nesil Cazimoglu:
“The country, particularly London, is facing a housing crisis and residents in Enfield are feeling the effects. This Council believes that the government’s Housing and Planning Bill will only make the situation worse; and that the only real solution is to build more homes.
House building is at its lowest since the 1920’s; private rents have increased by 37% in the past five years and the government continue to use billions of pounds of public money to subsidise private landlords through housing benefit.
The Housing and Planning Bill would:
There is no commitment in the Bill that affordable homes will be replaced like-for-like in the local area.
This Council resolves that the Bill undermines localism by granting the Secretary of State the power to override local plans, to mandate rents for social tenants and to impose a levy on stock-holding councils, violating the terms of the Housing Revenue Account self-financing deal.
This Council calls on the government to grant local authorities the powers and financial ability to increase the supply of housing for our residents. Councils must be given the financial flexibilities they need to be able to scale up housing development, both in partnership and directly.”