‘Workplace parking levies need to be implemented widely’

• I’VE a quick suggestion for St Paul’s primary headteacher Clive Hale, whining that traffic restrictions near his school will mean his staff won’t be able to drive to work, (Road closure near Primrose Hill school doing more harm than good, warns headteacher October 6).

Please avail yourself of the full facts of the massive harm and damage that car usage is inflicting upon our societies, environment and planet, and reconsider your inappropriate remarks.

Those working in education should in no way be in cahoots with the high carbon and destruction from the car industry.

Next to no one should, be driving to work in 2022. The space for car parking in schools should be handed back to the children to decide what usage it should have (exempting spaces for blue badge holders obviously).

We are inundated with grotesque, inescapable, car congestion, noise, obstruction, rat-running, idling, taking public funds for subsidised on-street car storage (parked 96 per cent of the time) and, of course, still impacting our health and National Health Service, while destroying the environment of the places we race to visit.

Camden Council are doing fine work in enabling people to make journeys by active travel or public transport – the Haverstock cycle lanes are a fantastic example – but we need to accelerate that rate of progress, moving towards the creation of a “20-minute borough”.

Workplace parking levies need to be implemented widely, allied with an education and information programme for those who remain addled by government-sanctioned car advertising and national media-backed driver-appeasement.

The chronic disregard for people and planet begins and ends with car use. School car storage reallocation would be a great place to continue action to end car dependency.

STEVEN EDWARDS, NW5