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Published: 7 August 2008

Street parties are too much

• AS a Belsize Road resident I am dismayed at the intransigence of the police to a request on two consecutive nights to clear 200 people at a street party.
They said they would try to attend but I had to understand that knife attacks and terrorism were taking priority!
They did not attend and the crowd finally dispersed at 6am. In this weather it would be nice to be able to have windows open but the level of noise being generated by taxis coming and going renders this impossible.
In recent weeks the crowd grows and grows and congregates outside 10 houses. There is drinking and laughing shouting and screaming going on all night.
If this was Camden High Street it would be a different story.
While Belsize Road is a busy thoroughfare it is a residential street where you do not expect street parties going on all night every weekend.
As I understand it drinking in the streets is prohibited with bylaws. One feels helpless.
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Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@thecnj.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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