Latest Letters

  • ‘Secret plan’ scare story
    • ANYONE would think that an election was around the corner (Tories have secret plan to raise rents, January 22). Labour’s “same old Tories”-scaremongering machine has well and...
  • Beware, the wrecking ball is still hanging over Sobell
    • ISLINGTON Council recently distributed a leaflet at Sobell Sports Centre that heralds repairs and improvements planned during the next six months. This confirms the spending of £1....
  • Tragedy if this green lung falls victim to developers
    • HIGHBURY residents are appalled at the planning application for 149 new dwellings on the National Children’s Home site. The plans involve building on a hidden garden known locally as...
  • Letters: Muddy hell - New turf debate for Soho Square
    Published: 29 January 2010 A MUD park is how Soho Square can now be described thanks to the city council’s inaction.  We business ratepayers were told new turf would be laid in October....
  • Letters: Impact of Crossrail - letter from the director for Land and Property, Crossrail
    Published: 29 January 2010 CROSSRAIL/ Transport for London take very seriously the concerns of businesses affected by the construction of this vital improvement to the transport system (Letters,...
  • Letters: For cost-effective education - letter from Cllr Mark Page
    Published: 29 January 2010 I WRITE to clarify a number of issues on the council’s plans to improve education and boost aspirations for pupils (Cuts will hit our schools, January 15).  In...
  • Letters: Panic! - Parking charges
    Published: 29 January 2010 ABOVE-inflation increases in the cost of residents’ parking permits, a 100 per cent increase in the cost of parking meter charges in St John’s Wood and the loss...
  • Letters: Parking ‘politico speak’ - raising parking charges
    Published: 29 January 2010 THE High Court established that using parking charges to raise revenue is illegal in a judgment made in 1995.  Money raised “incidentally” in the context...
  • West End Forum: They are robbing us of our privacy - The debate on ID cards
      Published: 29 January 2010 Helen Marcus says that government measures on ID cards and more will transform a once free country into an ‘Orwellian nightmare’ GOVERNMENT is destroying...
  • Hospital history
    • YOUR article (St Luke’s the latest casualty, January 22) may have given the impression that the hospital building under alleged threat in Muswell Hill was designed by Sir John Soane in...
  • Gallery’s great night
    • I WOULD like to thank the National Gallery’s manager. My lady, who had worked there for 20 years, was invited to a Christmas party. At the entrance a group was playing classical music....
  • Poll pain lingers on
    • PAT Haynes makes cheap remarks about myself and my councillor colleagues (Why I hope to stand, January 22). This followed the piece on him the previous week, where the strong impression was...
  • What now for heating?
    • WE are extremely grateful for your coverage of the “battle for 24-hour heat”. Thanks also to Councillor Terry Stacy, who listened to what residents had to say and agreed to switch...
  • Promises, promises
    • BEFORE Boris Johnson was elected to City Hall, he promised to build 50,000 affordable homes by 2011. He has since been forced to admit they will not actually all be new (many are likely to be...
  • What was payout?
    • ERIC Sorensen could at least have told us  how much developers “contributed financially to this splendid new place”, the City Road Canal Basin Plaza (Basin plaza a triumph,...