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Published: 26 July 2007

Website property problems

• THANK god someone has some brains.
I agree with your editor (A question of press freedom in the balance, July 12) about the bidding system the council is planning – changing the way it advertises how tenants can bid for a property by putting information on a website.
Not everyone has the internet. It’s very expensive and most council tenants don’t have a lot of money, obviously. It is stressful enough, trying to move, but if you don’t have access to a computer you have to use the library where computers are like gold dust, or go to an internet café. This is a problem if you have babies or toddlers as internet cafés are not child-friendly.
I enquired about bidding and the council/estate officer didn’t have a clue how it worked. I was told different things, like fill in a transfer form or a housing form. The system is complicated enough.
M MARRID
St Stephens Close, NW5

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@camdennewjournal.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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