Latest Letters

  • Published: 24 June, 2010 A CHILLY blast from Tuesday’s budget has set Camden councillors on the run. Effectively, the Town Hall has been ordered to cut spending by 25 per cent. In some...
  • Published: 24 June, 2010 • FIFTY years ago the smog and pea-soup pollution affecting London only came to an end though the Clean Air Act.  Today we face a problem just as big. The...
  • Published: 24 June, 2010 • A BIG thank you to all the volunteers and staff of the Primrose Hill Community Association who helped make the annual summer fair such a success on June 12, and a...
  • Published: 24 June, 2010 • THANK you for turning the spotlight on Camden’s lamentable approach to planning enforcement (Calls for crackdown on landlords and developers who breach...
  • Published: 24 June, 2010 At 83,000 the UK’s prison population is the largest in Europe… so something’s clearly not working, argues Illtyd Harrington (above) SOME years back,...
  • Published: 24 June, 2010 • THE proposed cuts in public spending risk pushing us into further recession, and this greatly increases my concern about the impact on the most vulnerable. During...
  • Published: 24 June, 2010 • I WAS tempted to respond to John Stratton's letter (Unfair to council staff, June 17) in an irate manner but I realise this correspondent is probably just a...
  • Published: 24 June, 2010 • I AM pleased to see that Camden Council car towers have taken on a new and patriotic role. On Saturday after the terrible performance of the England football...
  • Published: 24 June, 2010 • THE new government has already begun to impose austerity.  Yet millions are unemployed; millions are “economically inactive”; machines, land and...
  • Published: 24 June, 2010 • IT was good to see the review of the amazing Electric Hotel (‘Hotel’ wins extended stay, Review June 17). What did not come across was how hard the...
  • Published: 24 June, 2010 • I AM delighted there is a proposal to redevelop the multi-storey car park, on the corner of Abbey Road and Belsize Road, into residential homes. However, I do...
  • Published: 24 June, 2010 • QUALITY social housing pays for itself many times over, in the longer term. I think plans for the Highgate Chester Balmore estate redevelopment need to be...
  • Published: 24 June, 2010 • THE way Mike Clarke, head of Camden libraries, has treated staff during the Grow Your Library scheme has been unjust. Time after time he has piled pressure on...
  • Published: 24 June, 2010 • I AGREE that there doesn’t seem to be as much disruption and change to the lay-outs and shelf space at Queen’s Crescent, Belsize and Swiss Cottage...
  • Published: 24 June, 2010 • WHO should I thank for the glorious display of roses the whole length of the green fronting Swiss Cottage Sports Centre? The scent is unmatched by any that ever...