• FOLLOWING on from the letter (An explanation would be appreciated from the suits at Camden, May 19), I woke up on Sunday morning to find that a large yellow sign with black writing had been surreptitiously put on the lamp-post giving healthy school street times for Holmes Road.

However it only takes account of St Patrick’s primary and there is no notice at the start of Holmes Road. I can only imagine that many cars will bear the brunt of fines for not seeing the signs.

What about the Collège Français Bilingue de Londres, the French school, opposite my house?

We have to put up with a barrage of 4 x 4 cars every single day when the parents come to pick up their children and feel it is their right to park in the spaces that we pay our parking permits for.

Sometimes we can’t park near or outside our house and we have to park a street away and carry heavy shopping!

There is also a bank of security cars parked at the start of Holmes Road at the Grafton Road end.

Is it because the French school is a private school or is because Camden do have their depot across the road from it that they are not subject to the healthy school street signs?

It is really not surprising that the council has done something like this; but it affects an already extremely busy side road, that is, Willes Road where there has been more than one “near-miss”, both with children coming out from the school and cars coming to pick them up.

Camden really need to address the concerns both of your May 19 letter writer and the residents of Willes Road, Kentish Town.

LINDA MOORE
Willes Road, NW5