• SINCE reading about the negative financial impact the regeneration scheme Camden has imposed on Queen’s Crescent market, shop traders and others, I am reminded of the need for true citizen participation, (Calls for u-turn over Queen’s Crescent traffic scheme, June 18).

Local people, residents, workers, and business owners, are the best source of information on what needs to be done to improve lives and livelihoods and what works or won’t work in their area.

Camden Council are in error to experiment with people’s livelihoods. This so-called regeneration scheme is also having a detrimental impact on disabled people’s ability to be included and take part in society by having access to transport.

We are not even post pandemic. Workers, families, and businesses have faced enough hardship and do not to face more, needlessly, because of a poorly thought-out consultation process.

Did the people in Queen’s Crescent area ask for plant pots, closed shops, lost jobs, spy cameras and a loss of disability access? I guess not.

The council should immediately scrap the scheme, compensate those who have lost out, apologise to all affected, and start again by really listening and trusting locals to come up with solutions.

ELAINE DONNELLON
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