St Paul’s Primary School

• I AM entirely against the ill thought-out King Henry’s Road area traffic reduction scheme, (Head warns new school street plan could add to air pollution, February 27).

I feel sure that if my neighbours and other users of Elsworthy Road, Avenue Road, King Henry’s Road and the surrounding roads were fully aware of the plans, there would be an outcry.

Camden’s proposal is to block Elsworthy Road entry and exit points, thereby cutting off access to Avenue Road.

This will not only increase congestion at the Swiss Cottage gyratory and along Adelaide Road, an already deprived area, and it will add to congestion and pollution in both of those areas. It could lead to serious gridlock more regularly than occurs now.

Traffic surveys indicate there is no clear evidence of speeding in Elsworthy Road, which is anyway crammed with sleeping policemen.

The majority of accidents seem to have happened at the junctions of Primrose Hill Road, on Adelaide Road and in Avenue Road where, under these proposals, traffic will increase.

St Paul’s school is dead set against the proposals as they feel the extra pollution caused as a result will adversely affect their pupils. The council do not listen to residents.

It seems to us that regardless of the outcome of the consultation (which I doubt they will make public) the scheme will be bulldozed through in the council’s typically dictatorial manner.

I beg the council to stop and think about alternative measures such as road-narrowing, extra traffic-calming measures, or speed cameras.

NICOLA COLEMAN, NW3