• EVERYWHERE in the borough, Camden Council seems to be allowing its greenery to be lost to developers who put up pretty fences depicting hedges or flowers, behind which they too often create identical square blocks which then remain empty of people.

We need laws to allow the borough to requisition such empty buildings in order to house not only those on the waiting list, but those who are sleeping and dying on our streets in increasing numbers. We need too to compel developers to make room for gardens and trees.

As one of your readers who has taken part in protests about HS2, it has been distressing to see the plans going ahead beside Euston.

The ancient burial ground which became St James Gardens, where we could enjoy memories of England’s green and pleasant land, has been yielding up its skulls while we plan to destroy the old trees there and along Cardington Street.

And when Mornington Crescent was rearranged to accommodate the flow of traffic at the intersection of five roads, Transport for London was allowed to remove the remains of the small garden of trees and plants.

The resulting large, sunny, palazzo-like, space is now for the birds, represented by pigeons, and a few humans who balance on the odd coffin-like seats which, I am told, were designed to prevent people from lying down or being comfortable.

There is a fast flow of traffic from all sides. Indeed I was nearly knocked over into the road by a large, male cyclist using the pavement as a fast way to Mornington Crescent.

AGNES J THOMSON
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