Why are pavements, roads, car park, the Listening Space, manhole covers, drain and soil pipes surrounding the site marked with surveyors’ coloured sprays?

• AS a Kentish Town resident and Caversham Group Practice surgery patient for more than 30 years, I am appalled to learn that the purpose-built primary care unit – Caversham and Peckwater – is under threat of being separated.

In their offices NHS administrators got out the Monopoly board and rolled the dice for a site in which to house a secondary care dialysis unit that no longer fits the reconstruction plans for St Pancras Hospital.

Why? Because they want developers to build and sell “green space” apartments on the hospital site to fund their coffers.

Never mind about Caversham’s 17,000 patients who will lose the community care presently available to them at Peckwater!

If this goes ahead, Peckwater will never return to its purpose as part of the original NHS vision to provide primary care in the community.

Never mind about the neighbourhood plan democratically voted in, and adopted by Camden Council in 2016.

Never mind about turning Peckwater into a thundering building site in a conservation area while, metres away, GPs treat newborn to aging patients’ mental and physical health.

And never mind about the Listening Space Garden in the centre of the site, and probably on that Monopoly board, too.

Gardened by patient volunteers, and managed by the social prescribing unit of the surgery, this quiet green space, filled with mature flowering shrubs and plants, espaliered fruit trees, vegetables and herbs, has become an oasis for GPs’ and patients’ quiet contemplation, community plant sales, crafting and open days for the whole Kentish Town community.

If, as they say, no decision has yet been taken, why are pavements, roads, car park, the Listening Space, manhole covers, drain and soil pipes surrounding the site marked with surveyors’ coloured sprays?

Anyone wanting to preserve the Peckwater, Listening Space, and Caversham primary care hub, needs to sign the petition (https://chng.it/CYnZLnFt4y).

VALERIE PYOTT, NW5