TV cabling a fiasco

Published: 18 February, 2011

• I CAN find no justification for proposals to place TV cabling on the front of the conservation buildings in Pleasant Place, Angel.

Furthermore, the proposals to use a “cherry-picker” when the whole of the properties affected, back and front, are/will be covered in council-financed scaffolding is somewhat farcical and commercially irresponsible in view of Islington’s current financial position, £52million cuts this year.

I have contacted the planning department and will be raising strong objections to the project as a whole, the obvious lack of meaningful consultation with residents and the reprehensibly wasteful cost associated with the proposed means of erection.

Hopefully, and with the borough’s value-for-money requirements in mind, we can arrive at a much better and cost-effective solution to this outrageous fiasco.

DR BS POTTER 
Chairman, Islington Leaseholders Association