• I READ with jealousy about residents in the Hampstead Neighbourhood Forum spending five years consulting and agreeing on guidelines for development in their area being enshrined in planning law, (Voters back new planning guidelines in Hampstead referendum, June 28).

Residents of Glenmore Road in Belsize Park have had to put up with, and are still putting up with, disruptive building work as a consequence of planning permission being granted on the creation of basement flats right next to each other.

The law does not classify this as anti-social behaviour in accordance with the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003 or grant residents “peaceful and quiet enjoyment of their home” under common law. How is this possible?

The law is definitely an ass in my opinion or do residents in each neighbourhood in the UK have to protect themselves from noise pollution by finding a pro bono lawyer and spending five years copying both Hampstead and Camley Street neighbourhood forums.

In east London PEACH charity received £1million of lottery funding to pursue its vision for the local area on jobs, housing, safety and health. Is that what one has to do to avoid noise pollution?

I have emailed Camden Council concerning the extension and excavation of an existing cellar to form a larger basement. Can the planning department retract the permissions? The pavement has been used for mixing cement.

IRENA SEGET
NW3