• THE CNJ’s pages have highlighted the many issues surrounding the activities of Camden Council’s secret assembly which is producing a “community consultative report”.

This will determine the future of Gospel Oak and Haverstock residents, voluntary organisations, and businesses for many decades. We are told that the 30 secretly selected “assembly members” represent our community but not how they do, nor who they are.

The assembly was meeting for its sixth time on Tuesday this week to discuss the final report. This is the likely day before the end of Ramadan. A possible rough parallel would be Christmas Eve.

Many families, I understand, will be making huge preparations on this day for the festival. It would seem the council is either ignorant of the importance of this festival for those members and families of the assembly who will be taking part in it, or could not care less.

To get the £250 “reward” members have to attend all six meetings. We already know that during the Carlton school closure consultations officers arranged community meetings for parents on Fridays, the day of prayers for muslims.

At best this latest decision on the meeting date is one of gross insensitivity. This is yet a further example of the sham and shambles of this so-called consultative exercise with yet further discriminatory overtones.

MICK FARRANT, NW5