• I CAN’T have been alone in reading the February 17 letters responding to your report on the Coram’s Fields threatened job cuts with a growing sense of horror, (Save our park! Fears keepers at historic park will be axed, February 10).

What became clear was not just the injustice of the planned sackings themselves (so obvious as to not need further detailing) but the systematic use of processes of gradual normalisation that have been ongoing for years – and which somehow benefit from the life-span of children and parents, as the former “outgrow” the spaces they and we spend so much time in when kids are young (my daughters couldn’t be dragged away for many years). We don’t want to, but we stop looking closely.

Contrasting Coram’s Fields with projects nearby (like Calthorpe), or further away (Spitalfields), really brought home to me how different the space could be; how it might become truly community-oriented, and run.

I can’t wait for that, and hope the strength of all our feeling, including both the love for and rage about this precious space, and the people who protect it, is fully understood.

PAULINE VAN MOURIK BROEKMAN
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