A public meeting will be held for the Save our Southgate campaign, the campaign to save our local constituency from boundary changes.
LOCATION: INTIMATE THEATRE
N13 4DJ St Monicas Church Palmers Green
Earlier this month the Boundary Commission's initial proposals were published for redrawing parliamentary constituency boundaries to equalise constituents numbers and reduce the number of MPs from 650 to 600. The plans are subject to consultation until early December. In Enfield the proposals will have a dramatic effect on Enfield Southgate which would be abolished and see its wards dispersed across 5 constituencies.
As the plan above shows, the Commission would send Cockfosters Ward to Chipping Barnet, would include Palmers Green in an expanded Edmonton constituency, would incorporate Grange Ward in what is now Enfield North, would send Bowes Ward to Wood Green and would send Southgate, Southgate Green, and Arnos Wards to a new constituency (outlined in yellow) which would also include Friern Barnet and Finchley.
David Burrowes has called on Enfield Council to oppose the plans as a "bad deal for Enfield".