I THOUGHT it would be of interest to my fellow council tax payers to see what problems will have to be dealt with by our far sighted council, in disposing of the flooding it will encounter if it tries to turn Enfield Golf Club into a park.

After only moderate rainfall, as experienced on January 26, the photograph (above) illustrates the flooding potential of the plain.

Should the council carry on with its plan to eliminate metropolitan open land, and consequential swaths of the Green Belt to develop Enfield Golf Course for housing and an unnecessary Jubilee Park, then the elimination of the flooding must first take place.

The flooding was still in evidence on January 27, making the land still unplayable, but that is a problem to be overcome and tolerated by the club members, who must take the rough days with the smooth, but who have the enjoyment of the use of the land throughout the year, no matter what the weather.

To make the land a viable site for sale to a developer, the council will have to deal with the flood plain problem, which will require significant expenditure of council tax payers money in land drainage and river flow relief downstream.

Should the developers take on the site without the drainage problem being resolved, as I expect the council will try to unload on the developers as much of the development cost of the park and the elimination of the drainage problems as it can, then the value of the land will depreciate, and the benefit to the council and us council tax payers, diminish accordingly.

Such money as may be realised by the council from the sale of this land for development purposes will never manifest itself as a tangible benefit to the locality of the existing Enfield Golf Club, where the local residents are content with their local amenities.

Leave Enfield Golf Club alone please, dear council, and avoid spending further money on this potential white elephant.

B RAMSEY,

The Coppice,

Enfield.