• WHEN I walk to the new Camden Town Hall in Pancras Square N1 to use the gym in the basement I can’t help noticing that this whole “new neighbourhood”, extending to Granary Square and beyond, is kept spotlessly clean, while Bloomsbury is not.

Our local street – Tonbridge Street – home to Argyle Primary School, is almost never swept and is littered most of the time. Similarly Handel Street, home of the Bloomsbury Surgery, is a sea of litter. In our street there is litter from fast-food restaurants, fly-tipping, and rubbish left behind by night-time nitrous oxide sniffers.

I wonder why Bloomsbury can’t have the same level of cleanliness enjoyed by the town hall? It is particularly sad because it suggests to the primary school students, who use our street every day, that a littered, degraded environment is normal.

MICHAEL CARLEY, WC1