• WE cannot have Chalk Farm turned into a mini Chicago, with all the bo-hos fleeing, of course, (Towers get go-ahead as tenants vote for estate demolition, January 12).

As only a tiny number voted, and not collectively, the vote was worthless. There must be a second vote, with compulsory voting enforced. Do turkeys vote for Christmas?

I am researching the environmental and still-unfolding disaster of the new and the old Charlie Ratchford Centre and new court. All basic Camden Council planning guidelines have been broken; the once charmant karma of the area has been shattered.

A former sacred copse and glade to the left of what is now Charlie Ratchford Court has been destroyed; the building is monstrously overbearing; and it has been “built to the edge”. To add insult to injury the occupancy rate for this white elephant is only 20 per cent.

As for the Stalinist horror being built along Belmont Street, the requirement to preserve (as once promised, not least by former distressed staff with whom I conversed) the former grounds, hillocks and silver birch trees and classic “ha-ha” wall of the gardens of the former Belmont House, which formed about 25 per cent of the site occupied by Vestry and Co, has been obliterated.

This is a truly tragic loss for the area as a whole, currently being massively devalued by truly grotesque overbuilding.

I want to see, if not demand, that Vestry Ventures and Co immediately reinstate the former truly magic and delightful, part floral grounds of Belmont House that once scented Belmont Street.

I am researching a possible breach of all planning consents and the current multiple breaches of basic Camden town hall “green” planning guidelines by (truly oxymoron-ically and ironically) Countryside Partnerships.

The examples of former green countryside in Camden are what once made the borough a habitable delight.

Camden is rapidly becoming a disaster zone.

CHRISTOPHER TRUMAN, NW5