‘Vitally important to consider the loss of green space that the Camden community has suffered’

• HOPEFULLY by the end of the year HS2 will have been cancelled. A key question for Camden then becomes, “what should be done with the property in the vicinity of Euston station acquired by HS2”?

Local and central government will likely wish to redevelop the land for both housing and commercial use. Central government in particular will wish to minimise its embarrassment by highlighting potential gains of disposing the acquired land to developers.

It is, however, vitally important to consider the loss of green space that the Camden community has suffered at the hands of the absurd HS2 project.

In any Euston area redevelopment scheme the London Borough of Camden should ensure that every square metre of green space lost to HS2 is replaced around the station.

That area would be the sum of St James Gardens, the green spaces in the Regent’s Park Estate (where replacement homes had to be built) and Euston Square Gardens.

Given the loss of mature trees the new green space should be properly landscaped and provided with semi-mature trees rather than spindly saplings.

TIM STOCKTON
NW5