A lucrative error?

• IT is ingenious to refer to the development at Arundel Square, Holloway, as “completing the square” (Film-makers in battle to keep newcomers out of parking spots, November 27). It is, in fact, situated in a private, gated, traffic and parking-free access road called Blackthorn Avenue. The park is to be enlarged, but many residents, including myself, who live opposite this ugly new block of flats feel this enlargement comes at a very high cost to the area. The side of the development bordering Westbourne Road is particularly dreadful.
Throughout the consultation, residents raised concerns about overdevelopment. These concerns were dismissed. Indeed, the Arundel development, in addition to two apartment developments in Offord Road, were cheered on by the council and folk who held the misguided belief that this area of historic and leafy Barnsbury required regeneration. One consequence of this regeneration is more traffic.
The parking permit row is apparently traced to an administrative error. If this is not resolved, the sole beneficiary will be the council.
If I understand this correctly, there are potentially 115 permits to be made available to residents of Blackthorn Avenue. At an average of £100 per permit, per year, per apartment, one would be forgiven for wondering how long it might take for this revenue-generating error to be resolved.
W KEITH WALLACE
Arundel Square, N7