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This land is our land
An open letter to Gordon Brown
• THE saga regarding the land behind the British Library goes on and on.
We cannot get a meeting with housing minister Yvette Cooper, as she has a quasi-planning role and this would affect her talks with the council members, the Somers Town ward councillors and the St Pancras and Somers Town forum.
The secretary of the Somers Town People’s Forum has invited Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, chief executive of the Medical Research Council down to Somers Town to see for himself the ludicrous place where the powers that be – including your good self – want to locate the National Institute for Medical Research Centre behind the British Library and next to a heavily built-up estate called Levita House and other nearby estates like Walker House and Monica Shaw Court.
He has talked glibly about the benefits this centre will bring to Somers Town but what he obviously and blatantly doesn’t know is the desperate need we have in Camden for space to build council housing; and the need for leisure and community facilities in an area right by two stations on the left of the site and another nearby on its right.
With great respect, Prime Minister, who advised you to enthuse about and support energetically the concept of a medical research centre on that site?
Have you visited our area? Have they?
And if not, we extend to you and to your advisers an invitation, as already extended to the chief executive of the Medical Research Council, to meet us just a few representatives of the local community and the ward councillors for a tour of the nearby locality and to see for yourself the need for this land to be used for council housing and leisure facilities... come and see the overcrowded estates; the lack of parks and leisure areas; and ask questions of residents.
Please do come along and meet Somers Town and those of us who love it dearly and want the best for it... the land is ours.
Cllr Roger Robinson
Labour, St Pancras and Somers Town Ward
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