COUNCILLORS voted against a major shake-up of MPs’ constituencies last night.

Enfield Council is angry at proposals for an Edmonton-Chingford constituency, which will be dominated by the River Lea reservoirs that divide the two towns.

Councillor Tom Waterhouse (Cons/Chase) said: “It’s absolutely absurd. Given the majority in the new constituency would live on the Chingford side, it is inevitable the MP’s office would be based over there. Edmonton residents would be the most inconvenienced.”

At a full council meeting, councillors voted to oppose the boundary changes and backed calls by Councillor

Mike Rye (Cons/Town) for the capital’s local government pressure group London Councils to organise a London-wide response to the plans.

He said: “These are completely inappropriate proposals that have been brought forward and I don’t think we are doing enough to support representations to the Boundary Commission.

“We need to make representations to London Councils, for them to lead pan-London proposals which work with the arithmetic and geography.”

Councillor Ingrid Cranfield (Lab/Lower Edmonton) agreed, saying: “Between Edmonton and Chingford, there is no animosity, no rivalry. That’s because there is no familiarity, no affinity and no togetherness.”