No Deep Clean Crisis for Chase Farm

 

   In September the Labour government announced plans to create a whole new cleaning system throughout the hospitals in England. This means a large scale operation, which hospitals need to take full responsibility of.

  Gordon Brown vowed to clean the hospitals; “a ward at a time”, with “walls, ceilings, fittings and ventilation shafts … disinfected and scrubbed clean”. Quite a huge task to set for six months, but nonetheless Barnet and Chase Farm were able to meet the deadline, without any last minute cleaning frantics.

  With an additional half a million spent on furthur cleaning the hospital managed to finish in just under four months. This comes as good news when the future of Chase Farm is in the Secretary of State for Communities and Housing Caroline Flint’s hands. She is planing to go forward with the proposed 279 houses if not enough patitions confront the housing plans.

 It appears the renewed hospital might keep it in safe hands, Enfield MP Joan Ryan is planing to talk to Mrs Flint on the housing plans. Miss Ryan stated that she supported the patitions being dished out by Save The Chase Farm campaigners and still believes there is a chance that the plans will not go through. “”I think it (the proposal) is premature, in that before any further development of the site occurs we need to have the final outcome from the Independent Reconfigura-tion Panel (IRP).”

   Let us hope the Save Chase Farm campaign has not diminished its objective in protecting the half decent A&E that is in Enfield. Only time will tell.