• I AM angry at the manner in which Camden has imposed fortnightly bin collections on the residents of north Camden, while expecting us to pay the same council tax as those living in the south and, for example, Belsize Square / Primrose Gardens, who still enjoy weekly bin collections.

There was no consultation and we were not canvassed about whether we would be prepared to pay a little more council tax to ensure weekly refuse bin collections continued across the borough. So I went along, as a concerned citizen, to present the Conservative-inspired petition against this policy to full council. I am not aware of a single Labour councillor who is actively fighting against this policy in our area.

I have never been to a Town Hall meeting. How naive of me to think we would get a fair hearing – that all councillors represent all residents not only their party-affiliated ones. So I was shocked and appalled, (disgusted frankly) at the openly hostile, dismissive, bullying attitude of the Labour councillors, who from the off, smirked and cat-called those presenting the petition. They were uniformly, outrightly, dismissive of 3,000 residents’ concerns.

The councillors could not give a damn that hundreds of properties have spent money building bin stores that are now not large enough to accommodate the new bins, overflowing with rubbish, which now sit outside blighting our streets and potentially devaluing our homes.

We cannot sneeze without Camden bearing down on us in the Belsize conservation area but Camden can trash our neighbourhood with large black bins and orange bags that now litter our streets.

N ANSTEY,
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