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Phoenix arising from the ashes could be new nick
• THE development of Hawley Wharf (Developers buy £17m of canalside properties, November 13) offers a real opportunity for improving our area, but plans must take local views into account, especially around community safety.
Labour’s idea to build a police station on the site is an excellent one, and I’m sure would be warmly welcomed by the whole community.
Everyone agrees Camden has serious drug-dealing, violent crime and anti-social behaviour problems.
Securing a site would also help the police modernise their premises to give a better service to the local community. Camden Council should have the vision to lead on this; opportunities like this only come up once.
A Camden police station would mean the authorities could respond quickly to any incidents and would increase their high street visibility in Camden Town and beyond. The last thing we need is simply more shops when Camden Town Tube station can barely cope with the number of visitors as it is.
Anna Helga Horrox
Labour Action Team, NW1
Seize moment
• THE proposal made in your newspaper (Developers buy £17m of canalside properties, November 13) for a police station at Hawley Wharf is an excellent one.
Sometimes opportunities present themselves, which with decisive decision-making, can foster long-term, positive, change. This opportunity is at Hawley Wharf, a sizeable chunk of land, part ravaged by the Camden fire last February and located in the heart of Camden Town.
There are many uses one could envisage, but as a former councillor for the area and community safety lead, and currently on the board of the local community centre next to the site, a police station is one that should receive serious consideration. For our community this could be the phoenix that rises from the ashes of the fire.
As residents and business know, and as the evidence given by council and police at the recent Camden Community Police and Consultative Group meeting on Camden Town showed, the area is still the borough crime hot-spot.
A police station in Camden Town could be the single most important step to achieve long-term change and meet the scale of the issues the area faces.
I hope that the moment will be seized. To utilise a phrase which has underpinned change in the USA: “Yes we can”.
Jake Sumner, Camden Town |
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