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Big green voting questions
• I HAVE used the Talacre Open Space for some 40 years.
It has meant the world to me and my family.
Camden will not exactly inflict the seven plagues of Egypt upon the Talacre residents if they vote “yes” for a Town Green for their valued park, but very nearly so.
Or so they want us to believe.
Camden seem to claim that Talacre Gardens will be threatened with a 24/7 access policy if a Town Green were to be registered.
The park, they claim, will have to be left unprotected without fences. There won’t be any more improvements or maintenance or caring of any kind from thereon, they have suggested. Talk of gloom and doom.
They might inflict all sorts of problems for our residents if we do not play ball with them.
JOHN KILGALLON
Athlone Street, NW5
• OUR whole family discussed the Town Green questionnaire at breakfast and I was greatly alarmed by its contents.
First it gave legal advice which was definitely slanted in Camden’s favour and left no room for any other interpretation. It’s effectively a spin exercise for Camden Council.
The questions asked of the respondents were incredibly complex. So much so that one wonders whether someone has tried to contrive a questionnaire which would be incomprehensible to as many local residents as possible.
I would not be surprised if many of the people around here simply opted to dump the questionnaire.
Such is its clarity, it might as well have been written in a foreign language.
Dr Dom Kniveton
Talacre Road, NW5
• Talacre residents are as determined as ever to protect their park and say yes to a Town Green.
This is the one chance they have to make a difference.
We must save the park from the Dalby Street developers – and any threat of a truck route across Talacre Gardens.
Any other threats are nothing compared to this horrid fate which would befall our park if we do not bother to vote.
Maria Portch
Wilkin Street, NW5 |
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