• BACTON Low Rise estate was demolished a couple of years ago, but construction of phase-2 of the proposed redevelopment has not yet started.

In the light of Covid-19, the design for the new flats should be modified to reduce the density of people living there. At present the number of households planned to share one entrance and lift is too high.

A reduction could be easily achieved by simply omitting two or three floors of the development, that is, reducing it from eight storeys to five storeys.

In addition the family-size flats provided in phase-2 should be allocated to overcrowded families currently living in conditions which make living with the pandemic extremely difficult, for example, large families living at West Kentish Town estate.

At present the proportion of homes planned to be for social rent in the second phase of the Bacton Low Rise redevelopment is low. This should be increased as a matter of urgency, and construction work started immediately to meet current housing need.

Changes made to the scheme in 2016 to reduce the number of three-bed flats by 25 per cent and increase the number of one-bed flats by 34 per cent should be reversed.

In the way that it did for Chalcots, Camden Council must use existing emergency funding for this purpose to safeguard the health and wellbeing of Camden’s residents.

SUE SHEPHERD
Savernake Road, NW3