• ON Sunday, August 20, Raglan House in Kentish House closed its doors. This specialist day care centre, supporting people with dementia, has been providing these services to the community for over 40 years.

Before that neighbours remember it providing child care and services for mothers and babies going back to the 1950s including when you could collect free orange juice for infants there. If you look carefully at the front of the building there is still a sign saying St Pancras Borough Council.

Raglan House has been a community facility for almost 70 years but what is its future now?

My fear is that Camden Council will yet again sell this off to the highest bidder so that it becomes expensive houses or apartments well beyond the reach of most people who live and work in Kentish Town. Raglan House deserves a continued future for the community.

It is fitted with an internal lift which makes the building ideal for conversion into residential accommodation for older and less mobile local people.

I call on our local councillors, who include our council leader Georgia Gould, to ensure this building is not lost to the local community and doesn’t become another example of the council’s short-sighted policy of continually selling off its assets to the highest bidder.

JOHN NICHOLSON
Raglan Street, Kentish Town