• THE New Journal and Camden Council leader Georgia Gould are to be congratulated on last week’s podcast, a great improvement on the erstwhile leader of her “tweets for the few” approach.

Alas, her answer to my question on what were the council’s plans for Queen’s Crescent market was just a little short on facts.

True, Cllr Gould praised Queen’s Crescent Community Association’s training of unemployed local people (some 40 in just over two years) to become stallholders.

However, it must have slipped her mind that it was she, as the cabinet member at the time, who stripped community association of its market management contract in August 2015. Perhaps her “change of mind” about Jeremy Corbyn will extend to her market decision.

Nor did she mention the current “benign” neglect of the council which has resulted in a 80 per cent reduction in stalls; there were a mere 11 on the day of the podcast posting.

Also “forgotten” seemed to be the result of the latest area regeneration consultation, started in November 2015, through which some 54 per cent of around 1,000 respondents identified the rejuvenation of the crescent as the major priority.

We still await the next set of proposals on the crescent, originally promised in February this year. Gospel Oak residents may like to follow this up when doorstepped by candidates in the forthcoming by-election.

Notwithstanding my comments on this issue, we need more of this openness and transparency. A welcome start.

MICK FARRANT, NW5