Bedbugs? They’re not interested

Published: 20 January, 2011

• YOUR correspondent Jessica Lotti (Letters, January 13) has, I am sure, everybody’s sympathy with her predicament over bedbugs.  

I can add to her story.  A few months ago, the chair of our tenants’ and residents’ association reported directly to the deputy head of housing at a meeting that there was an infestation on the College Place estate.  The deputy head sat in his chair in complete silence and made no comment.   

We have since heard nothing from housing on this topic.  

I conclude a total lack of interest – no other conclusion is possible.

There have been years of complaints about dumped rubbish on this same estate, also about the infestation by pests including rats and mice.  

This is being exacerbated by the continuing dogged determination of housing managers to store discard and rubbish in the outside (for all to see and pests to utilise) in street areas in the totally inadequate eyesore “Eurobins”.  

This external storage, as you can imagine, makes the problem worse.

Camden’s “solution”?

It proposes setting up a pest control and pest removal scheme as a charged service.

So those most affected will have to pay to solve a problem Camden has caused with its hopeless management! 

You might well wonder just what the term “environment” means to these people.

NORMAN SPEIGHT,
Camden Street, NW1