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Dreading the hordes
• NOW that the days are getting longer and warmer, residents in Kentish Town are dreading the onslaught of greater hordes of people pouring out of The Church on Sundays from the Forum in Highgate Road.
It is good of Michael Hennessey, the verger at St Giles-in-the-Field, to address the problem on our behalf (The Church is no joke, March 27).
It’s also interesting to note that visitors to Kentish Town are as shocked as we are. Whether religious or not, many people find the use of the name The Church offensive when it represents a club for drinking alcohol and for watching strippers.
What is even worse for us is that peaceful Sunday afternoons are ruined by the sight and sound of hundreds rampaging down Kentish Town Road. The “Churchwardens” try to keep the crowd in order but they cannot successfully control these huge numbers of people once they have left the immediate environs of the Forum.
The School Disco events on Saturday nights, if anything, are worse because the customers, all dressed as school kids, create more havoc, late at night.
We are calling on the Forum management to close both these events. They are creating serious disturbance to residents.
The management of the Forum promised the licensing committee that it would hold meetings, every two months, with residents to discuss problems. There has not been a meeting for at least nine months.
Why has the Forum reneged on its promise? It seems that the Forum management cares not a jot for the residents of Kentish Town.
CAROLINE HILL
Kentish Town Road
Action, NW5 |
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