Evening Standard analysis of all the key seats in London for the July 4 General Election News | Politics Get our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice Millions of voters across London went to the polls on July 4 to elect the new Government The Standard looked at key battleground seats in the capital and published an interactive map of the results Top five candidates (in alphabetical order): Guy Russo - Liberal Democrats (2,517 votes) Isobel Whittaker - Green Party (3,713 votes) Wards: Brimsdown; Bullsmoor; Carterhatch; Enfield Lock; Ponders End; Ridgeway; Southbury; Town; Whitewebbs I’m not sure if I’m in this constituency: Here’s how you can check Boundary changes impact: Enfield North has taken on part of Edmonton to the south and its demographics are seen as leaning marginally more rightward as a result. 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Drivers face prosecution after ignoring level crossing safety warnings A month-long crackdown on people misusing the level crossing at Enfield Lock saw thirty drivers facing the possibility of prosecution after being caught ignoring the warning signs Network Rail targeted crossing users at Enfield Lock as the crossing is in the top-ten nationwide when it comes to misuse Common offences committed include everything from kids ducking under the closed barriers to drivers getting stuck on the crossing after ignoring warning lights and trying to drive across as the barriers closed Last year 13 people lost their lives in Britain after taking a risk at a rail crossing Four safety awareness events were held at Enfield Lock throughout June as part of Network Rail’s Don’t Run the Risk campaign which aims to combat level crossing misuse Support came from the British Transport Police National Express East Anglia and London Borough of Enfield The team monitored the crossing and spoke with motorists and pedestrians about misuse and offered advice and information on how to stay safe on the railway Leaflets were also handed out that spell out the chilling truth that taking a chance at a level crossing might be the last thing you do said: “Time and again we see drivers and pedestrians jumping the lights and ignoring warning signs We’re driving home the message that running the risk at a level crossing is just not worth it Covert observations carried out at Enfield Lock by Network Rail earlier in the year recorded more than 300 offences committed by pedestrians and motorists during the morning and evening rush hours in a single working week equating to an offence roughly every ninety seconds Tuesday 8 June – Five drivers reported for failing to stopThursday 10 June – Six drivers reported failing to stopTuesday 22 June (International Level Crossing Awareness day) – 12 drivers reported failing to stopMonday 28 June – Seven drivers reported for failing to stop - 3,242 recorded incidents of misuse or error (2008 = 3479) - 14 collisions between vehicles and trains (2008 = 20) - 13 deaths (2008 = 15) - 140 near misses between motor vehicles and trains = nearly 3 a week FACTS ABOUT LEVEL CROSSINGS- Level crossings are safe if used correctly - 95% of accidents at level crossings are caused by misuse or error– i.e barriers and klaxons - There are over 7,600 level crossings both on public and private land that cut across the UK railway network ‘DON’T RUN THE RISK’ CAMPAIGN Network Rail has a public safety awareness campaign on level crossings - Don't Run the Risk.  The campaign has been running since 2006 and includes hard hitting TV and radio advertising that illustrates in graphic detail the tragic consequences of misusing level crossings by both motorists and pedestrians The campaign runs in parallel with other Network Rail and industry initiatives to minimise the safety risk at level crossings - Network Rail’s dedicated community safety team which aims to reduce railway crime and provide young people with positive activities to fill their time - Development of solutions which could lead to the replacement of some crossings - Development of obstacle detection systems - Developing better and cost-effective ways of detecting and recording level crossings misuse - Working with the Police and Crown Prosecution Service to improve the prosecution of offenders to grow and expand the nation's railway network to respond to the tremendous growth and demand the railway has experienced - a doubling of passenger journeys over the past 20 years One of the UK's largest housing projects is set to bring 10,000 new homes to young families beside the Lee Valley Regional Park in Enfield - plus a new train station will mean commutes to central London in less than 25 minutes.. Homes & Property | Buying & Mortgages renting and decorating in London from our award-winning experts The boundary between inner and outer London is blurring as buyers push into areas just beyond the North and South Circular roads where homes can be built at prices low enough to attract people who want to be within a 30-minute commute of the City Several factors are working to make these areas more accessible and better places to live has pledged an improved deal for the “neglected suburbs” and is calling for imaginative high-quality architecture for new neighbourhoods on brownfield land where transport upgrades are planned is the first of these projects to be announced Live there and you could happily work north of London as well as in the West End and City With 10,000 new homes it is one of the UK’s biggest housing projects and will have a new train station with 25-minute commutes to Liverpool Street plus an 18-minute rail link to Stratford The first phase of 725 homes and the new station will be ready by 2018 shops and sporting facilities will be built In the long term there will be a station connecting to Crossrail 2 The land covers 85 hectares and is next to the Lee Valley Regional Park stretching along the banks of the River Lee from Docklands to Hertfordshire with 30 per cent of homes designated “affordable” Well-connected and youthful: EnfieldThe borough of Enfield served by three train and three Tube stations is well-connected to the road and motorway networks suiting commuters travelling inwards and outwards It borders the green belt and Enfield Town retains some character The area changes quite dramatically the further north you go with neat and untroubled tree-lined streets close to golf courses The under-34s make up more than half the population a figure boosted by expanding Middlesex University an estate of boxy housing beside the Lee Navigation canal where two-bedroom homes start under £300,000 including an original detached mill house overlooking Enfield Lock Winchmore Hill and Bush Hill Park are the most sought-after pockets close to Cockfosters station at the end of the Piccadilly line is a new development of flats and townhouses Regeneration hotspot: HendonHendon is another well-connected north London suburb benefiting from regeneration is a 30-acre site alongside the giant Welsh Harp or Brent Reservoir From Cambridge to Essex and Kent to East Sussex: the best new-build homes in key commuter hotspots within 90 minutes of London Where to buy in London: Bexleyheath tops list of 10 fastest places to sell a home A slice of family life in Zone 2: new modern mews houses in Victorian Battersea bakery known for intelligently designed central London skyscrapers has come up with a mix of high-rise and low-rise residential buildings with shops and cafés at street level aiming to bring vitality to this new neighhourhood is a 26-storey tower with two-bedroom water-view apartments priced from £489,500 Where suburbs began: outer LondonThough often depicted as a place for “happy families” outer London is enormously varied in terms of wealth This diversity has not always been matched by the output of property developers who have built some pretty unimaginative housing driven by the acceptance of the importance of good architectural design pro-active buyers demanding more from their developer London has 19 outer boroughs — from Sutton in the south to Enfield in the north from Havering in the east to Hillingdon in the west — and suburbs extend into the home counties where commuter towns were created by the expansion of the railways in the early 20th century the pioneering Metropolitan Railway built its own housing estates to the north-west of London in Buckinghamshire later famously celebrated by the poet John Betjeman Suburbia has plenty of development land that avoids the need for green belt encroachment north London is built on the site of an industrial estate This 798-home community is set in award-winning landscaped grounds with a lake Nearby Canons Park station is in Zone 5 on the Jubilee line Enfield is a prime example of the perils of the modern British society I have lived in Enfield since I was 4; some 36 years and I have mostly seen decline in all those years When I was little Enfield was beautiful; green and clean friendly and a great place for families to grow up Sadly over the years the borough has been in decline as it has come a dumping ground for Haringay and the rest of North London's 'unwanted' This has centered around Edmonton and Tottenham Essentially Haringay has pushed its problems Now that Haringey has been redeveloped in many areas the property and rent prices have gone up meaning that there is little way back for the less fortunate members of society Traditionally an influx of immigration has been common in the borough over the years which originally included Asians and Africans and later a large Turkish and Greek community in the 80s More recently we have had a huge influx of eastern Europeans including the Polish Serbs and Bulgarians as well as Somalians and others from Muslim countries Sadly these cultures tend to keep themselves to themselves; perhaps this is a symptom of our complex society and political issues but frequently it seems that for one reason or another they don't wish to participate in the local community; contribute or integrate themselves Thus communication in the area has broken down and this has left huge holes in the local community that in turn breed ignorance The short-sighted Enfield council have historically been way too quick to opt for a quick buck; selling off land for a quick profit to plug holes in their floored plans Picketts Lock Leisure Centre and encouraging local industry to thrive and prosper For years the council have accepted the unwanted; habitual benefits claimers who have no interest in working and problem teenagers who have been expelled from schools in other boroughs This has meant the emphasis in our classrooms has shifted from intensive teaching to be governed by the provision of classroom support for the poor disillusioned kids that are the product of this; who either cannot speak our language or have developed behavioural problems or learning difficulties It is these very children that now walk our streets lacking a moral compass or any sense of community; dropping their rubbish at will intimidating their piers and at worst taking drugs stabbing and sadest of all - killing each other I remember walking through an Enfield that used to be a strong community In recent years many of my friends have moved away somewhat broken-hearted and sick of the continued decline in the area I have to be honest and say that it is a thought that crosses my mind often enough these days Perhaps this is an unfair indictment against the current Enfield Council who seem to be trying to redress things with some credible ideas for both the community and local businesses - lets hope it's not too little too late! I still love my Enfield (said with true affection); it's in my heart and soul and as an active member of the community I hope we can get things back on track for all our sakes." comment by ID3394577 "I read this article with great sadness as I worked for a year between 1971 and 1972 on a Sandwich Student placement at the vast Thorn Electrical Industries in Great Cambridge Road From recollection they employed around 10,000 people around NE London and 75,000 overall Their decline and disappearance has always provided with me with a personal case study on Britain's industrial decline - especially as that business had essentially been built since the second world war I recall that I visited the area around 30 years later to attend an Aunt's funeral at the local crematorium In memory of Thorn's (and my Aunt) I ceremonially ate a soggy McDonald's burger on the site of their principal plants It had been responsible at one time for making over 50% of the colour TVs supplied in Britain I found myself attending a Health Service meeting in the building in Gosport which made their monochrome sets and had once been called Ultra where I had visited to review the progress of their engineering apprentices These businesses had their weaknesses and were always potentially prey to the competition from abroad it is criminal how little was saved and how careless we were in letting them go these were not 19th century heavy industries but based on the late 20th century technologies that now form much of the basis of the modern world The people of Enfield are paying the price for that loss." comment by JLConsult on the "poor side" of the Great Cambridge Road for 32 years and have found that a number of the points Aditya raised were an accurate reflection of what has happened to this part of the Borough of Enfield he was too downbeat on a number of other points "Great play was made about the loss of the thousands of jobs from famous companies who once graced the Borough Most of those major companies now manufacture those goods at much cheaper prices in the Far East It was also a well documented fact that the cost of producing those goods was affected by the high taxation costs placed on them by successive Labour and Conservative governments It was not just the Thatcher and Major recessions "It was a shame that the article did not mention the regeneration of those sites along the Great Cambridge Road with major supermarkets and industrial estates replacing I am well aware that 100s of jobs could not replace the 1000s lost; however those supermarkets and industrial estates do attract custom from far and wide and of course pump money into the local economy "Edmonton is a wonderfully diverse area Over the last three decades it has seen a massive influx of people from all over the world They are all welcome and make the place a vibrant place to live and shop it must be said that there are occasions when the English language is rarely heard in parts of Edmonton through Edmonton Green to Fore Street will see many people of different nationalities all speaking different tongues Some sadly do not seem to find the need to learn the English language properly but stick within small communities "It is of little surprise to me that some of the people who do not work in this part of the Borough cannot find employment One of the major drawbacks is their inability to be able to speak English to the sort of level required by most employers They require assistance to be able to gain those necessary skills." I've always thought that the issues described affect a stretch running up the Lea and the A10 from Tottenham through Edmonton Enfield Lock - probably getting less intense as you go further North Enfield as a borough is a microcosm of London itself ranging from the millionaires' mansions at Hadley Wood to Edmonton "Enfield Lock went through a lot of changes in all the time my family was there In the early 80s/late 70s loads of people worked at the Small Arms factory and every shop (bank dairy....) was a Co-Op - the factory closed in 89 and the Co-Op shrank away to just be a supermarket All the factories along the Cambridge Road became retail parks - changing the nature employment and affecting the chances of local retailers at the same time just up the road got hit far worse by out-of-town shopping - it seems a bit of a ghost town now "There were always rumours about phone boxes being used as drops by drug dealers and the house got burgled a couple of times comment by pysproblem81 Yet after six years of pledges of virtue – of borrowing less factories not banks – the Westminster classes have led us back to their favourite diversion: blowing hard into a balloon marked "house prices" "And the following passage is exactly why the 25-year mortgage model is a totally outdated concept It was conceived for an era when whatever you did you could be reasonably certain of a potential job-for-life Not walking on employment eggshells." commercial landlords and PR agencies have turned London into shorthand for banks unaffordable flats and restaurants serving caramel-coated bricks (yes But places such as Edmonton (and Croydon and Acton) remind us of the capital's role as a site of production With all this industry came thousands upon thousands of jobs Not jobs as we now know them: minimal training here-one-minute-gone-the-next-and-don't-you-even-dream-of-asking-for-a-payrise comment by eyelessingaza "I was brought up in Enfield on both sides of the great divide I went to school in the old grammar school in Edmonton on the cusp of its change to comprehensive On my way to school I passed the factories and industry mentioned in the article: Goray Nearby in Lincoln Road was Reeves where I did my summer jobs From the school playground we saw Delta Cables on the backs of lorries beind delivered to Brimsdown The football club's patron was Jules Thorn and he supplied the floodlights on the Southbury Road ground "Now Morrisons are on the Ferguson site a cinema and restaurants where the football club were and Sainsbury McDonald's where the industral giants of the past were "So what has this to do with the depersonalisation of government services I tried to organise incontinent laundry for my parents and after going to the local web site for the council ended up speaking to a council employee on the telephone and she did not know what I was talking about I worked in local government after leaving school and incontinent laundry was part of the services we provided I gave up on local government when I was disciplined for telling a member of the public their right to see a councillor or go to the Ombudsman for a case of blatant maladministration It was then that I realised that local government does not serve the people "I note the Enfield experiment and hope that it works but before seeking help from industry or financiers it should first ask the public what they think can be done to improve the situation council officers and councillors are accountable Start putting seed money into small enterprises Provide local workshops and small office spaces Business can flourish in Enfield once more but it will not come from the large industrialists." "I have lived in Enfield for 30 years East Enfield was a reasonable place but once the factories started to close those who could do left and the area has become blighted as a 'dumping ground' for people who have nowhere else to live "I used to work in the area and talking to long-term residents the changes they had noticed in 20 years were vast small factories etc) and ethnic shops and cafes starting up Some new business has moved into the area such as the TNT depot and Innova business park "But most people in Western Enfield (which has always been a commuter-dominated area due to the train-line into the City) rarely have a reason to venture much beyond the A10 now "The correspondent does not mention the one remaining selective school in Enfield is located in Edmonton and continues to produce well-educated pupils but other schools such as the former Grammar School have sadly lost the ethos Not that Grammar schools were a panacea for social mobility but they gave a lot of bright people a leg-up (many of my parents generation whose fathers worked in the factories managed to get into the grammar school from what used to be called 'modest' backgrounds) "What's the answer in Enfield and 101 places like it And the Council's enduring incompetence resolving to use rate-payers money efficiently and listen to what residents actually want (numerous 'consultations' are held a public meeting vote taken and then the Council do the exact opposite to what the majority wish)." "Up until the early 1960s when the then Borough of Edmonton trashed Edmonton Green the place was idyllic I lived on the Hyde Estate off Church Street We had lots of community spirit which came to the fore with the Queen's Coronation in 1953 formed a committee and built not one but two stages for performances "The only streets that could possibly be titled slums were around Cedars Road When the Council began their benighted aim to build a 'Workers' Paradise' (we were told this many years later by an elderly ex-council member) the streets around Cedars Road were pulled down and the tower blocks built in their place I remember seeing them being constructed while I waited for my train to work in 1963 onwards The intention was to remove the 'slums' only for these tower blocks to become slums themselves very quickly "There were some suspected underhand machinations going on too In demolishing Edmonton Green the planners managed to destroy not just one ancient coaching inn The former still retained its archway and wheel ruts in the cobbles With a bit of serious thought the Golden Lion could have been integrated into the new 'Green' Then there is the mysterious case of Raggs the Chemist on the corner of Balham Road This listed building was in the way of the planners design for flats but The building 'mysteriously' caught fire and burnt down "Enfield is perhaps one of the most divided boroughs in London with leafy 'villages' such as Winchmore Hill (described as a "hidden gem" in an Evening Standard property feature) and Hadley Wood with many multi million pound houses; lots of solid attractive family housing and good schools and transport links into town and more green space than any other borough Having lived in Winchmore Hill for more than 25 years I like many westerners barely venture to the other side of the borough of both political persuasions have tinkered around with Edmonton The proposed new station and upgraded transport links are vital and the Meridian Water development are major steps but it takes a greater vision to utilise the borough's proximity to the City 'Silicon Roundabout' and to reinvent Eastern Enfield "Please don't write off a whole borough, I set up www.n21online.com because this is such a great place to live but it is much easier to galvanise a community when people are not living hand to mouth and can take a pride in where they live However to push Edmonton forward requires engaging more with the communit providing positive role models and change perceptions I would like to think that the Edmonton you have described is the low point but having a business team with little experience of working in the private sector "I was born and grew up in eastern Enfield When we were the proud new tenants in a new tower block on the A10 in 1963 we had a fine view across the low sprawl of Ferguson and Belling sites to Epping Forest Dad was a toolmaker at Belling's for most of his working life one grandad swept the floor and the other was on the gate another scrubby place with a posher neighbour I'm visiting my ailing mum every weekend at present and seeing my old home with new eyes I shall be hanging on your every word and image."