• A NUMBER of residents and business owners are frustrated with Camden Council’s laid-back approach to the illegal trade of ice cream from diesel-polluting vans for hours on end.

The past few days have seen three or four vans strategically parked around Primrose Hill from 11am to early evening with their engines running non-stop.

The dangers they cause to the health of residents and visitors are now well known but traffic wardens do not seem to notice and wrongly (if they do anything) consider the drivers to be engaged in “loading”, which they are not.

In addition these streets have been the subject of an order banning the sale of ice-cream from vans outright. It is clear is that there is distinct unwillingness for anyone in a position to do their job properly.

We fear that another Easter weekend will be blighted. The occasional ice cream will do most people no harm. But the constant emission of diesel fumes will. The dangers to public health are quite severe.

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