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Disgraceful site! Fill it with vegetables for local people
• THE large derelict area left by the departure of property developers Candy and Candy at the old Middlesex Hospital site is a distressing disgrace and visual sore for our local community.
It is likely to grow worse as time goes by.
Is there not some green environmental group, entrepreneurial person, or existing successful team, such as those at Phoenix and Camley Gardens, who could get the council’s co-operation in transforming this out-of-use space so as to produce vegetables for the community, or some other needed resource; if only on a temporary basis until building work begins again?
Spinach and potatos would be useful quick short-term crops, as they don’t need pesticides!
The Fitzrovia Community Association, which has good relations with Tesco, might be able to get financial/volunteer sponsorship from them, and they might be glad to market the crops as “real, locally grown”, unless it had been decided to offer them to local charities and hospitals.
This idea, which might need volunteer guardians to manage the site, came while welcoming the Guardian idea whereby councils arrange for empty properties to be licensed for housing on a temporary basis by guardians.
Dr Yvonne Craig
Ridgmount Gardens, WC1
• SOMEBODY has suggested using the old Middlesex Hospital site to produce vegetables for the community, but I would like to see it used as a garden for the local workers who can recharge their batteries during their lunchtime. Then both residents and the general public will benefit.
Marie Nicholas
Goodge Street
W1
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