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To suggest children lack sporting opportunities is misleading
• I ENJOYED Joyce Glasser’s tongue-in-cheek letter (So why not concrete over Regent’s Park? October 18).
You recently published an advertisement – “Something for Everyone” – which implied Camden children were deprived of sports facilities.
This is misleading.
In Regent’s Park, Mondays to Fridays, during school hours, dozens of recently refurbished football pitches and changing facilities remain unused. Five hours a week are now allocated in the school curriculum for sport. So why are teachers not bringing their children to these full-size football pitches in the park? Are they too expensive? They are certainly available. Despite the proposed floodlighting, is it conceivable that teachers would prefer to bring classes after school hours, on dark winter evenings, to play five-a-side football where at least three pitches and three teachers would be needed to accommodate a single class? And is it likely they would then use the club bar to consume alcohol until 10pm?
No. I believe these facilities are not aimed at children, but at working adults, and that a private company is determined to gain access to this valuable green space for the sole purpose of making a huge profit.
Keep us informed of the date and venue of the meeting to finalise this business deal. We must attend and voice our disapproval of this seemingly devious proposition.
JB, NW1
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• SO why not concrete over Regents Park?
I think it is the most preposterous idea to further build in Regent’s Park. There is already a good size area for sports and enough places in the entire city to have another football pitch, and the thought that there is going to be a further desecration of this stunning royal park is unjustifiable.
This park dates from the 1800s and was the idea of John Nash, one of our finest architects, along with the stunning houses surrounding it. He had this incredible idea to design this park for King George IV (Prince Regent). This park is of outstanding beauty and deserves to be left alone, along with over 400 varieties of roses and other flora, invertebrates, mammals, birds and waterfowl.
Can we as a nation stop destroying our history, not just for ourselves but for the generations to come?
Please let common sense prevail for once.
GRETA LASHLEY
London WC2
Plastic grass!
• AS long term local residents and park lovers, we are appalled at what is proposed by the government (alias the Royal Parks Agency) for Regent’s Park.
Any government which prides itself on caring for the environment cannot justify cutting down 75 trees, and covering five acres of public parkland with plastic grass, concrete, high netting and at least 40 floodlights.
With a bar opening late at night, it will be a mecca for wild stag nights and other corporate entertainment.
Once wrecked, this beautiful and tranquil corner of Regent’s Park can never be replaced.
JOHN AND HILARY BACH
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