Estate torn to shreds

Published: 3 September, 2010

• ANYBODY reading Bunhill councillor Troy Gallagher’s comments (Letters, August 27) would expect him to be opposed to any attempt to force communities out of the place where they were born and bred.

It’s a pity therefore he didn’t follow through with his plan to bring Harriet Harman and her electioneering supporters to Whitecross Street Community Centre as was planned back in May.

Had that taken place, the waiting Bunhill residents would have been able to tell him in no uncertain terms how they felt about the controversial housing policy adopted by Peabody and Islington Council to offer only one of four Peabody homes to current residents, which is tearing our 150-year community to shreds.

Meanwhile, residents will just continue to put up with it until Cllr Gallagher can find time to fit us into his clearly busy schedule.

JOHN LESTER
Peabody estate, EC1