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Published: 5 July 2007

Another generation of our children will suffer isolation

• IT now seems plainly obvious that Camden Council’s so-called consultation on where to locate a new secondary school was nothing more than a sham and that the question of building the school in Swiss Cottage was never really in doubt.
The excuse that there is no property available south of Euston Road that would suit the need is total rubbish.
What this means is that the council has deserted yet another generation of young people who happen to live in the south of the borough.
These youngsters will grow without having the opportunity to make friends with kids of their own generation. Camden has effectively isolated yet another generation of kids.
They will spend vast amounts of time travelling to and from school, or simply to meet up with a mate; they will constantly be in fear of being mugged or attacked in areas that they are not acquainted with; and their parents will have to live with those same fears.
Yet again we see Camden taking the easy option rather than satisfying “the need”.
It is about to miss the only opportunity in the past 60 years to do the proper thing for the next generation of south Camden children and those that follow.
We in the south of the borough have always been suspicious that Camden does not “need us” politically and if we had any doubts about that before we can be sure now that our suspicions were correct.
The whole area of the West End north of the river is in need of a new secondary school, to facilitate Bloomsbury, Fitzrovia, Marylebone, Covent Garden, Holborn and even Mayfair and St James’s.
Why cannot Camden and Westminster get together to solve the problem?
The sites are available but the will has to be there to acquire one of them.
If this opportunity is lost (£200 million) then I fail to see how the problem will ever be resolved. Something must be done.
London’s West End will become a wasteland in time if proper school provision is not met.
The evidence is there to show that the need is desperate.
JIM MURRAY
Chair
Bloomsbury Association
Gower Street, WC1

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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