Months of noise and filth

Published: 25 February, 2011

• THE last government, under pressure, organised some timid investment in council housing to alleviate the effects of the banking crash.

At John Aird Court, Paddington Green, Westminster wants to build a five-storey block wedged between two other blocks. 

In 2008, 84 per cent of the residents voted against the proposal in a 51 per cent poll organised by the residents’ association.

Construction will take up to two years, leaving this small, pleasant estate with a constipated, ugly appearance and, in fact, only five extra council flats.

The months of noise and filth will include  the removal of the old boiler-house and destruction of the football pitch, the only one for kids in the area.

A huge housing programme would certainly fill the bankers’ pit but this botched, intrusive plan solves nothing.

DANIEL AHERN
St Mary’s Terrace, W2