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Camden New Journal - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 27 March 2008
 
Welcome decision

• IT is excellent news that the Court of Appeal has fully endorsed the 2006 High Court decision to quash Camden’s earlier planning permission for the Garden House in the Vale of Health to be replaced by a very much larger modern building on land designated as Metropolitan Open Land, the urban equivalent of green belt (Brothers’ home appeal rejected, March 20).
The court’s decision is particularly satisfying not only because the Garden House will not now be replaced by such a wildly inappropriate building, which would have significantly damaged the views from Hampstead Heath across the Vale of Health, but also because any other outcome would have had potentially very serious adverse effects for other MOL sites around the Heath, and indeed for green belt sites across the country.
May I, through your columns, express the Vale of Health Society’s immense gratitude for the enormous efforts that the Heath & Hampstead Society has put into fighting this critical battle over a period lasting almost four years.
IAN HARRISON
Chairman,
Vale of Health Society, NW3

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@thecnj.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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