• COUNCILLOR Angela Mason wonders why there are fewer children in Camden than there used to be, (The ridiculous housing market has spirited our children away, not a pied piper, January 30).

As well as the reasons she gives, the crisis at schools like Carlton may be linked to mismanagement of the council’s CIP programme. A hundred family homes were demolished at Bacton and have only partly been replaced by the construction of Cherry Court.

Aspen House in Maitland Park was emptied a while ago and its demolition is imminent. Where have families from these flats been relocated, and are children still able to go to the schools they were attending previously?

There may as many as 80 fewer council flats in Gospel Oak now than five years ago. This is highly likely to impact the number of children attending local schools.

As a precaution I do feel that the council should have rebuilt all the family homes at Bacton before moving people out of Aspen House, in order to avoid risk to children’s education and our local schools.

SUE SHEPHERD
Savernake Road, NW3