• MERIC Apak, Camden’s cabinet member for better homes, made two highly misleading claims in his letter about the window replacement in the Chalcots tower blocks, (Safety is at the heart of our work at Chalcots Estate, November 28).

He stated that an independent survey found that over 60 per cent of respondents at the Chalcots Estate were very satisfied, satisfied, with or didn’t mind the window designs.

But he did not say how many were questioned in the survey: 10? or 100? Our own survey – a collaboration of all tenants’ groups on the estate, sampled more than half of the residents. This revealed an overwhelming dislike for tilt-and-turn and overwhelming support for a like-for-like window replacement.

Cllr Apak rightly deduces that tenants want to feel safe in their homes then wrongly concludes that the tilt-and-turn windows would deliver this feeling of safety. The obvious question would “you” feel safer in your home with like-for-like windows or tilt-and-turn windows was never asked by Camden!

Instead the council had arbitrarily decided the solution to a problem that did not exist for window designs to be tilt-and-turn and that tilt-and-turn therefore was the only safe solution; and then linked the matrix questions weighting to indicate high for tilt-and-turn windows equating to feel safe in “your” home question and be able to clean your own windows.

These were highly dubious questions designed to give a predetermined answer.

NIGEL RUMBLE
Representative and member of deputation