How many in the community back the proposed Peace Garden?

Pubished: 6 May, 2010

• THREE points for the debate between proposers of South End Green’s “Peace Garden” and the residents group opposing it:
First, the mysterious disappearance of the council’s planning application notice: it was exhibited for less than a day. Its removal meant that planning permission was granted to the surprise of the vast majority of local residents. They had no chance to make their views known until circulated by the residents’ group. 
Second, this local residents  group gave firm figures, only 17 per cent of 170 responses supported the scheme as it stands. Yet the proposers merely state: “We have a good number of people working on it who are residents in the community. This is a community project”.
It is hardly that! Just what is this unstated  “good number”?
Third, the display set up on the site grossly distorts the scale of the wall and the viewing platform.
As proposed, it would be 14 feet high not, as it appears, at the height of the railings, which are no more than four feet high.
GARALD MARS
Nassington Road, NW3