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Offices on play area? Incredible

• I am sure I speak for many in deploring the destruction of the playground at Bray council estate in Adelaide Road, apparently in order to construct a site office for the council’s PFI contractors.
Where are the kids supposed to go to play? It seems inconceivable that Camden Council cannot find somewhere other than a playground on which to build an office.
So much for the council asking us to re-elect them on grounds of their social awareness and concern.
All this seems to have been set in motion without the slightest notification or consultation with residents. The swings were removed and fences erected without notice virtually overnight!
I recently received a mailshot asking me to support the Camden Labour council in the impending local elections. Among the Labour party’s manifesto pledges was the following: “To invest in youth and play projects on Camden’s estates to encourage the kids to get involved in sport, leisure and fitness and not to hang around the street corners or estates”.
How does this square with the wrecking going on at Bray playground? It would be a bad joke if it were not so serious.
Or perhaps the council has cynically chosen this ward because it has no sitting Labour councillors?
Either way, Camden voters should take note of the vast gap between the “caring” rhetoric of the council and how it actually treats its residents – and particularly its kids – in demolishing playgrounds in the interests of PFI contractors. Your play area could be next!
Mike Knollys
Fellows Road
NW3


Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@camdennewjournal.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.
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