The Bacton Low Rise site hoardings

• WE can but welcome the council leader, Georgia Gould’s call for the HS2 land to be opened to the public during the construction “pause”, (Fury as – after years of demolition and disruption in Camden – HS2 is delayed to the 2040s, March 16).

Though of lesser area magnitude, neither she nor the Community Investment Programme supremo, Cllr Danny Beales, made similar “calls” for the Bacton Low Rise building site in Gospel Oak which has been boarded up and closed to the public for 12 years and remains so.

Former residents were promised that they would be able to return to new homes by 2017, many have not. Perhaps we could be told why no such call is made to remove the boards.

The land is a playground for local fox families. It could have been used for allotments or given to residents to create a park.

What does the council have against our area, closing our schools, nurseries, community centres, decimating our street market and closing our roads as well as leaving this site vacant?

We are, at least currently, a strong and loyal couple of Labour wards (Haverstock and Gospel Oak). What have we done to deserve this wanton and long-term neglect?

Cllr Gould hopefully can tell us so that she could call for the Bacton Low Rise site to be open to the public and explain why she did not do so years ago.

MICK FARRANT, NW5