Queen’s Crescent Library gets a new look

• PRIOR to your report about the filming of an advert for KFC, I produced a WhatsApp spoof along with a picture.

A number of readers actually believed that KFC was to take over the children’s library in Queen’s Crescent.

One even thought it was a “good idea”.

Presumably they believed Camden Council would do this.

When you consider what has been done by the council to Gospel Oak – closure of two schools, three community centres and a nursery, a traffic system which complicates mobility for, especially, the disabled, left a huge derelict building site for a whole decade, and destroyed what was once a thriving street market run by the community – their acceptance of the spoof is not surprising.

Other residents may recall the two attempts many years ago to close the library completely.

I was told that the council received a sum of £137,000 which, if incorrect, perhaps somebody can give the correct figure.

Some shopkeepers received compensation from the film-makers for disruption. But how will the £137,000 benefit residents?

The council has amassed a budget of over £3million, in part from a grant from the GLA, back in March 2018, to develop the crescent.

Most of this seems to have already been spent on consultants and we are left with a few rotting planters and pot-holed roads and pavements.

We are repeatedly told that work will soon start on the QC project and so will building on the Bacton Low Rise site. But nothing ever happens.

Perhaps councillors could tell us, if they know, what the £137,000 will actually be spent on.

MICK FARRANT, NW5