Proposed for 330 Gray’s Inn Road 

• THE council allows another bully in – a monster tall building on the Royal National Throat, Nose And Ear Hospital site!

But why is height so terrible? Because height changes everything.

In King’s Cross most residents live or run businesses in old or listed buildings. They are not very tall. Suddenly, next door a monster building is allowed, overshadowing and overseeing all.

This new building will have the view. It will command the landscape and skyline. It will take over.

The level playing field has gone (excuse the pun), because those in old “historic” King’s Cross buildings are not allowed to change much. They cannot compete honestly for views.

However, probably their greatest wish is that their equilibrium was being preserved. But Camden Council, with blind callousness, forces those in their historic homes and businesses to live in the shadow of the bully.

Then what about the aesthetics?

Imagine a 10-storey building suddenly springing up on one of the canals that loop around Amsterdam’s central station?

Thank goodness that would never get past first base there, so ingrained in the whole law of the land it is to preserve the balance, serenity and equilibrium of its beautiful city and inhabitants.

King’s Cross have Camden Council, incapable of seeing the big picture or future legacy, bludgeoning us with their bullies.

MARIANNE JACOBS-LIM,
WC1