Supporters celebrate unveiling of Boris Nemtsov Place in Highgate

• CONGRATULATIONS to council leader Georgia Gould on Camden’s posturing and inflammatory positioning so close to the Russian trade legation (Highgate roundabout officially becomes ‘Boris Nemtsov Place’, November 17); why not include a street sign outside Highgate Newtown’s library in honour of a former spy, murdered by Putin’s messenger boys, in the unmarked and shamelessly neglected Raydon Street (N19 5BU); never deemed worthy of a street sign plate?

I suppose “Litvinenko Lane” might adequately memorialise the “born-again” former FSB officer buried close by in Highgate Cemetery.

I wonder that such blatant posturing in search of free publicity, and so shallow in meaningful terms of solidarity with downtrodden and put upon folk, related to a community bereft of any material support from a municipality which accrues vast community charges from a densely populated corner of the borough which is deemed “unworthy” of Camden investment in cleansing, maintenance and fabric upkeep. Let alone placing a name plate at either end of the street.

“Unworthy”, according to council spokesmen, as they claim to have statistical data of “insufficient footfall”; which shows that tourists and friends of the Town Hall don’t use this exceptionally busy thoroughfare on visiting the area!

Yet we are a major artery for the thousands of cross-borough commuters as well as many hundreds of school attendees at the six primary and secondary schools in the immediate vicinity.

We are in a so-called conservation area yet there has never been any initiative or recognition from this body that Highgate Newtown exists.

KEVIN MURPHY, N19