• WHILE it is most definitely greedy to buy five flats on our estate it cannot be denied that Alexandra Road has benefited from its leaseholders, many of whom make a considerable contribution to everyday life on Rowley Way, (Abolish Right to Buy, November 11).

Is it so bad that people in different financial situations live side by side? I don’t think so. Isn’t this the joy of London that we are not ghettoised or forced into gated communities, for the most part anyway.

Alexandra Road is a vibrant mixed community and a great place to live. We are entering the next phase in Rowley Way where people who buy the flats restore them as opposed to altering them and squeezing in as many people as possible in order to gain maximum rent.

In fact it may be that the only flats that remain with their original artefacts in our Grade II-star dwellings are leasehold flats that escaped Camden’s “Better Homes” programme that destroyed many of the interiors.

I’d like to see the many empty flats here let or sold, not to the person with five flats but to key workers.

One important thing is that, over the years, there has always been harmony in our very active tenants’ and residents’ association and never a distinction made between tenants and leaseholders. This has worked well to date.

Whether you are ideologically opposed to, or supportive of, the “right to buy” it would have been difficult to foresee the various outcomes; but letters like the one mentioned only serve to work against good relations in the community.

ELIZABETH KNOWLES,
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