• I AGREE with Concerned Citizens (A community vision? First we want answers from the council, January 23) that the message from Cllr Beales about “drop-in events” is totally inadequate.

Cllr Beales’ leaflet delivered to residents of Haverstock and Gospel Oak, equates minor public realm improvements in Queen’s Crescent with the massive structural changes that will come about through estate regeneration, calling them “projects that respond to what local people have told us needs to change”.

This is very disingenuous. What people need, and have been requesting for some time, is a joined-up planning process to guide and regulate the changes that are being forced upon us.

Without this, we are at risk. Like the people of Somers Town, we are about to be gamed by Camden’s real estate department.

The tarting up of Queen’s Crescent is insignificant compared the radical densification of our neighbourhood with thousands of new flats being built for the benefit, probably, of overseas investors.

The reality is that our neighbourhood is about to be exploited by the council: 2,000 new homes at Kentish Town Goods Yard and 2,000 new homes in Gospel Oak and West Kentish Town.

We need new homes, but not that many! Furthermore, high-rise development is just not sustainable these days and adds to global heating.

A much more sensitive approach is needed. Hands off our neighbourhood Camden Council!

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