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Published: 27 September 2007

Just what’s affordable housing?

• Readers will be aware of the huge new property development being planned on the site of the old Middlesex Hospital, recently sold by University College London Hospitals for £175 million.
Though many assurances were given to the local community that a significant number of units would be for ‘affordable housing’, the CPC group chief operations officer is quoted in the September 20 (Channel Islands) Guernsey Press as saying that the development is to “cater to the needs of dynamic professionals”.
The chief finance officer was also quoted as saying that “… a couple of the penthouses may be very expensive, but most units will be in the low millions”.
Could this really be the new yardstick to determine the price of “affordable housing” in Camden?
Dr Alan Berson, 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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