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Camden New Journal - by CHARLOTTE CHAMBERS
Published: 16 August 2007

Disabled centre protest fails

PROTESTERS who gathered outside a disabled centre in Kentish Town lost a last-ditch attempt to save it on Monday, when they learned the Town Hall has already found a new owner.
The campaigners were fighting to save the Kentish Town Project in the Clarence Way estate, which is due to return to being a single council home next month.
It supports 11 people with severe disabilities.
Silla Carron, a tenants’ leader in Clarence Way, said the the disabled people who use it are a part of the community.
She said: “My kids know all about the day centre. They wave at the (service users), they know them.
“They don’t make faces at them. They are a part of this community.”
Labour councillor Pat Callaghan said she was disturbed about plans to “move the furniture around” to fit people in at another day centre.

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