Tenants’ fears for the future

Published: 5 July, 2010

• EIGHTY-four-year-old June Constable is very worried about her future because her home in Emminster may be bulldozed in about three years’ time and she has been offered a home in the proposed development to be built on the railway multi-storey car park site (corner of Abbey Road and Belsize Road). 

June Constable does not want to leave her home of 40 plus years and really does not want to live directly on the railway!

How many other vulnerable council tenants feel bullied and intimidated by Camden? Many are frightened to fill in the consultation form provided by the Abbey redevelopment team.

Unless we object, Camden will build an enormous development, on the corner of Abbey and Belsize Road and infill of all the brown open space around Snowman and Casterbridge towers.

This will cause local traffic chaos for nearly a decade.

This project, to build a large tower block on the multi-storey car park site, will produce up to 330 more homes, in this over-populated area.

We already have pressure for more school places, medical services and parking.

Perfectly good flats in Emminster and Hinstock will be demolished and the much-used recreational area around Snowman and Casterbridge will be ruined.

London mayor Boris Johnson has given Camden £500,000 to plan this area’s redevelopment.

Local architects Emily Greeves and Fiona Cubbin think that the current plans are weak and need significant revision.

Camden is trying to validate their plans with a cosmetic consultation sham.

Please help preserve our borough and protect us from profit-driven schemes which stretch our amenities and leave us in the shadow of unnecessary high-rise tower blocks.

If you are concerned about this over-development and want to help prevent it, please email: againstover developingabbey@gmail.com

CARIN BATTLE
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