Latest Letters

  • Permit-free, please
    IT APPEARS Islington Council has reached an agreement with developers to have the Arundel Square site in Holloway 80 per cent parking permit-free. On top of this, it has been agreed that spaces in...
  • Skips part of the solution
    THE Lib Dem hierarchy can call us “wrong” on fly-tipping as much as they like, but all the evidence – both anecdotal and statistical – points to an increasing problem with rubbish disposal (Skips...
  • Canal basin plaza better off without bulky towers
    YOUR photograph showed a group of property developers and planners celebrating the opening of the new plaza at the head of City Road Basin (New basin makes a splash, December 25). And you may wonder...
  • Playground provider
    • THE eight to 13-year-olds were in the past been rather overlooked and the new playground at the Peckwater estate (High jinks, December 17) is certainly something to be very much welcomed. The...
  • Maiden Lane demolition
    • TO read Councillor Paul Braithwaite’s recent letter (December 17), one might think that there was no threat at all to the Maiden Lane estate. Has he not read the council’s own document recently...
  • We can’t lose it
    • THE Better Archway Forum has been dismayed to hear of proposals to downgrade the Whittington Hospital, a step which could lead to its eventual closure. Archway benefits massively from the presence...
  • Medical science is a boon to all humanity
    • YOUR correspondent Terrence MacManus, in just one short letter, manages to ignore, falsify, and discard the whole of human progress to date (Letters, December 17). Here are my basic comments on his...
  • Snow joke on untreated surfaces
    • CAN someone please explain why Camden Council “hibernates” at the first sign of snow? Maybe its staff cannot get to work due to the road/pavement conditions; it’s not as though they were taken by...
  • Mischief on the Billiard Table
    • YOUR correspondents’ aspersions in their two letters about my apparent concealment of a “plan” to demolish the so-called Billiard Table off Camden Road are wide of the mark (letters from Annie...
  • Councillors’ allowances: why the big disparities?
    • WITH all this talk in the mainstream media about MP’s expenses, I noticed in Camden Council’s Your Camden publication on page 25 details of Camden councillors’ allowances. These totalled £794,163....
  • Why not demolish that horrible old Town Hall?
    • CAN I be alone in regarding Camden’s Grade II-listed Old Town Hall building on Judd Street as an outmoded dump? The gloomy, acoustically flawed Council Chamber and the pretentious and uncomfortable...
  • Tickets to slide
    • I SAW a poor driver slide over the black ice into a very expensive-looking BMW, on the corner of our street. Ghastly sound! Fearing my little car might be next, I found a grit box and with my...
  • Warden’s licence
    • I CONFESS I am the “anonymous snapper” who took photographs of the “civil enforcement” officer parking on double yellow lines on a bend in Pond Square (Parking wardens’ message: “do as we say, not...
  • The NHS’s chocolate gift for staff
    • I SUPPOSE Ian Stoneham’s defence of the Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust’s gift of chocolates to staff is what we have grown to expect. They are incapable of fault. It is interesting...
  • Aussie bouquet for market
    • FOR the past five years we have been coming to visit our children, who both work and live in the Camden area. The first visit, in 2005, was a wonderful, eye-opening experience for us, as it was for...