• UNUSUALLY there were no letters or articles about the dreadful and possibly grim effects of the HS2 works going on in the borough in your last issue.

I would like to write in response to many of the important letters you did print about the loss of cherry trees and bats in the area; but what prompts me to actually write is the possibly lethal effects on the residents of Langdale in Stanhope Street of the new bank of five generators (two large, two medium) due to power the new HS2 headquarters.

These have been sited just inside the HS2 fortifications, 15metres from the Langdale building. Langdale is an L-shape which will be cradling all the filthy airborne discharge from these noisy machines.

All the front doors of the 60 homes in the block, plus their bathroom and kitchen windows, will be bathed in dangerous levels of pollution if these generators are switched on. And they have been cabled up and earthed already for the new temporary site HQ. Surely there are rules being broken here by HS2?

To my certain knowledge there are residents in this block with COPD and asthma. Life is about to become much more difficult than it already is on Regent’s Park estate thanks to HS2 acting without a duty of care to its neighbours on top of the hundreds of daily irritations from them.

Whatever happened to the “considerate constructors” scheme, does it not apply to HS2?

STEVE NEWMAN, NW1