• SOMERS Town ward seems so often to draw the short straw.

As John Gulliver reported (February 9) the feisty Slaney Devlin, chair of Somers Town Neighbourhood Forum, showed guts when she went out on a personal limb to fight alone in the Royal Courts of Justice to retain the park and trees at Purchese Street/Brill Place. She lost.

To add insult to injury, Camden sought and obtained an order for £5,000 legal costs against her (the maximum allowable) toward the council’s expenditure on a top planning silk.

Since Camden now stands to benefit from a massive (much needed) windfall injection of tens of millions of pounds from its now approved 25-storey tower block of millionaire flats for sale, can I respectfully suggest it would be an appropriately magnanimous gesture for Camden to waive its entitlement to the £5,000?

PAUL BRAITHWAITE
Bartholomew Villas, NW5