Not so pleasing: Mount Pleasant development 

• OUR neighbourhood in WC1 – old King’s Cross/Bloomsbury/Clerkenwell, in the thick of a conservation area – used to have views (from so many beloved nooks and crannies and from many homes too) of the dome of St Paul’s, the spire of the Old Bailey.

Kids walking to school could even see the Shard in the distance. Now all these views have been sold off to a few penthouse dwellers of the Mount Pleasant development.

But to make matters even more insulting, is the roof plant that is visible all round, from Pakenham Street, Cubitt Street, Rosebery Avenue, Calthorpe Street, Phoenix Place, even parts of Gray’s Inn Road.

It is a most disturbing plant of huge nuclear-type chimneys, that was planned screened, but the council thought it looked too much like an extra storey (which it is really) and ruled against.

They have made a mistake. Now what the community has to look at is absolutely disturbingly awful. See above in all its ugliness. Please write to your council, we need help.

MARIANNE JACOBS-LIM, WC1