• ON November 15 Camden’s planners condemned me and the residents of Winchester Road to being lab rats, in the full knowledge of the already grossly polluted borough.

Arrogant councillors recklessly, with utter disregard for our health, knowingly “volunteered” us to breathe in toxic particulates that exceed EU regulations for over four years for the greater good of Camden’s coffers, and in the interests of the Winchester project and future “affordable” occupants of the 100 Avenue Road rebuild. This is a step too far.

I did not volunteer to suffer this for the greater good of some future objective. I will not be a lab rat. Adopting stringent WHO air quality guidelines into UK law is a crucial step in protecting the country’s heart health.

Winchester Road has a nursery, an after school club, a toddlers’ ballet class and senior citizens’ home as well as family homes. These councillors have unspeakable arrogance to “volunteer” us all as lab rats.

ELAINE CHAMBERS
Swiss Cottage