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Wrong type of housing
• I WORK in Camden but live in Stratford, east London. Carpenters Primary School which sits on the very edge of the proposed Olympic site and serves one of the most deprived communities in London, is soon to be overshadowed by an 18-storey corner housing development that will dwarf it.
But the school, sensibly, accepted this in exchange for a redevelopment and upgrade of its facilities, which will no doubt add to the children's education.
When I read the argument of those at the centre of the Christopher Hatton Primary in Clerkenwell against the application to redevelop the adjacent pub from three to five storeys, I feel nothing but frustration.
How will this possibly blight pupils' education? And what about the problem of where they are going to be able to live when they finally finish their education if these people were able to block even the most innocuous of housing developments?
The problem surely is that it is mostly the wrong type of housing that is being built in Camden - ie: endless luxury accommodation to be bought up by speculators and for buy-to-lets which local people can not possibly afford.
BRIDGET STARK
Co-ordinator Camden Federation of
Private Tenants
Camden Street
NW1
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