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Dalby Street opposition
• THE letter (‘Y’ we need an answer on security and sports centre, November 20) illustrates the extraordinary lengths to which Camden is going in support of the Dalby Street development at Talacre.
How can they possibly say that pillars within a footpath “will not provide hiding places for people”? These pillars are holding up seven stories of building that entirely cover the footpath. The pillars even have space between them and the park fence. They are Y-shaped so anyone hiding can chose to stand behind them or sit in the fork of the Y.
The inhabitants of and visitors to West Kentish Town, being law-abiding wouldn’t hide behind or in them, but that is irrelevant. Pedestrians, going to and from the sports centre will be put off because they don’t know that.
Even more important is that a plan purportedly protecting pedestrians was produced, accepted by the inspector at a public inquiry and signed by the developer and council on September 30.
Camden it seems will simply ignore anything in it that is inconvenient to the developer who must wonder what he has stumbled into. He finds that parts of the council will do anything to support him, yet virtually all councillors and local householders are ferociously opposed to his development.
Brigid Sandford Smith
Bassett Street, NW5 |
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