• YOUR April 4 headline, following Calvin Bungisa’s death in Gospel Oak, ‘We all know what will happen next’, is, alas, proving oh so true.

The second of the two packed community meetings last week demonstrated people’s growing anger at the lack of action by Camden Council since the previous death in Haverstock on February 20 last year.

There can be no solution to our youth violence problems until there is an overall plan for the area, a so-called “Glasgow approach”. We have a multiplicity of problems in HaverGO.

The number of council rent homes on the Bacton low rise development has decreased by around 50 per cent since the start of the decade.

There remains a vast (non) building site vacant for over three years with no indication of even when building will start, if at all. New homes built for sale are priced way beyond the means of ordinary local people and have proved difficult to sell.

We have lost more than 30 small work spaces which provided local employment opportunities. Our once-thriving street market, which also provided employment opportunities backed by a training scheme, is in its death throes since its management was removed by the council from a local voluntary group in 2015.

As a participant passionately stated at the meeting on April 17, the new horizons project working with older vulnerable young people located in Queen’s Crescent was summarily closed by the council.

Two large local primary schools, which both have good reputations for working with vulnerable young people, now have very serious problems of falling rolls.

After being forced to close for over seven months by the council, the arts project, with younger people, has just reopened only after enormous local and press activity.

Alas the future looks even bleaker with no plans for the replacement and enhancement of comm-unity premises. Those aging premises which do exist are burdened with high council rent and service charges, severely restricting their ability for use to increase activities for young people.

Back in May 2016 the council’s own consultancy report clearly identified local priorities, Queen’s Crescent redevelopment, housing, community facilities, especially for younger people and safety. This has been totally ignored.

We were told, again, at the meeting that the council is about to allocate some £500,000 to organisations to address youth violence; but it is well over a year since the horrendous stabbing in Malden Road and not a penny has been allocated since then.

In Gospel Oak, in addition to Calvin’s death, we have had five potentially other lethal attacks since the end of January. Drug dealing and consumption is rife and open, especially on QC.

The latest calamity to hit us is the financial situation of the city farm. Alas the councillors and officers would rather information such as the litany above was not in the public domain.

Worse still, one of the two local Labour parties refuses so far to have joint meetings with the other to address the issues. As for the Tories and Lib Dems, they stay well clear of HaverGO, except at election times. Perhaps wisely so.

The mantra is, of course, it is all the fault of the wicked Tories and their cuts. However, much can be done with little or no cost to the council.

Its involvement is needed in not only for small voluntary projects for the area but an overall plan for HaverGO to address all the issues. Time is running out to disprove your headline.

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