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Published: 18 October 2007

So why not concrete over Regent’s Park?

• I 'DON'T understand why Simon Jenkins is making so much fuss about Goals Soccer Centres’ plans to concrete over five acres of Regent’s Park.
It’s going on everywhere else, what’s so special about Regent’s Park?
About 5 per cent of the population would rather watch soccer than walk their dogs, play with their children, picnic or jog on a sunny day, and London is all about equality and accommodating minority groups.
Besides, we have so much green grass in London already.
Even around St Paul’s, among the remaining gravestones I spotted some.
All this talk about how our parks are the lungs of the city – well, I’m sure there are some inconvenient truths in that one, too. I’m sure the rest of the park can absorb the fumes from all the extra traffic that the centre will attract.
The residents fretting about the loss of 75 trees can always fund raise next year to plant some more.
And you have to admit that Regents’ Park is even older than Ming Campbell. It has to get hip to appeal to today’s youth.
The Olympics ushered in a new fashion, confiscating family businesses, bulldozing untidy allotments, building lovely homes on “boring” green belt land. And that’s only for two weeks: after that, it becomes a depot for Sainsbury’s.
Goals’ “groundbreaking” architecture (see left) is forever!
JOYCE GLASSER
Savernake Road, NW3

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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