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Published: 31 May 2007

‘Music ban’ is out of tune

• YOUR article (Music ban puzzle for estate that’s so quiet, May 24) has either innocently or deliberately misunderstood the recently installed sign on our Curnock Street Estate.
They are aimed primarily not at us residents, who are by and large, as reported, quiet and mainly elderly, but at incursions from outside.
As well as serious drug and other anti-social behaviour (being dealt with by other means), we have sometimes also been afflicted by nuisance such as groups of youths – who don’t live on the estate – congregating, being generally rowdy, and, yes, sometimes playing loud music.
The signs obviously relate only to the various play areas, open spaces and decks around the estate in which they are placed, not to residents’ own homes.
The new signs are designed to discourage and deter such anti-social behaviour.
They also set out some ground rules so incomers can’t defy the Housing Patrol if residents call them out to disperse.
Your photograph was angled to avoid showing the wording ‘no unauthorised entry’.
I am not an officer of the Tenants and Residents Association, but am grateful for the hard voluntary work the chair and committee are doing, including winning the money for these new signs from the DMC funds.
I am disappointed at your reporter’s misleading description of a sincere effort to reduce rowdy intrusions from outside our estate.
PETER BRAWSHAW
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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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