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Published: 25 October 2007

Our children need some space to call their own

• SOMERS Town is a crowded place. It has little open space; it has many in desperate need of housing; its children and young people need some space to call their own.
And luckily, there’s an answer: Brill Place, more than three acres of land about to be vacated by the St Pancras station builders.
Yet once again it would seem that Camden Council is ready to take the short-term, cash-rich option, rather than thinking of the benefits a long-term investment would bring.
It seems the front-runner for the site is now a medical research facility. Bringing dangerous organisms to the centre of London – is that really a good idea? Or there’s the usual range of developers, just ready to pop up shiny offices and million-pound flats. The King’s Cross lands have been largely lost to the community – there the developers won. Given that, surely the smaller piece of land can be given to the desperate community needs that it could serve?
The Green Party will support full community use of the site – for housing and for community facilities. It is to be hoped that the Labour Party representatives at all levels of government will do the same.
NATALIE BENNETT
Co-ordinator, South Camden Green Party

Fighting spirit

• SOMERS Town showed that we have not lost our fighting spirit (We’ll fight until the death, October 18).
People packed into a meeting to show our opposition to plans which would destroy our area, such as selling off the land behind the British Library for offices or hotels.
Everyone wants to see housing and community facilities on that site.
Gordon Brown has promised to build more housing. But the politicians in the council and the government just stand back and blame each other, saying there is nothing they can do.
I would like them to come down to Somers Town to listen to what local people have to say. But if they won’t come to us, we will have to go to them. If we unite together they are going to have a real fight on their hands.
DAVE HOEFLING
Camden Respect

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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