• I URGE your readers to protest against the Murphy’s Yard development planning application.

I have lived in Kentish Town for 47 years. On returning from work via tube each day, I have always breathed a sigh of relief on seeing the beautiful view of Hampstead Heath opposite the tube station, often with a lovely sunset lighting it up.

It reminds me that hundreds of years ago Hampstead Heath, and Kentish Town itself, were places where inner-city dwellers, deprived of clean air, went to regain their health.

The beautiful view has a relaxing effect on the viewer, an effect much needed by us all in this busy and stressful urban life.

This view is now under threat from the proposed development which will obscure it by raising several tower blocks looming up behind Highgate road.

We will no longer experience the breath of fresh air that we get from the beautiful view, and Kentish Town will be changed for ever.

The proposed, huge, development will dominate Kentish town’s skyline, with no benefit for local residents and businesses.

Destroying a much loved view is too big a price to pay. Once the outlook from Kentish Town has been built over, we can never get it back.

To protest against the proposed Murphy’s Yard development, write or email Camden Council quoting application number 3021/3225/P.

ALEX MACKIE,
College Lane, NW5