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Camden New Journal - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 23 April 2009
 
Transport infrasctructure can’t cope with this scheme

• THE developers of Twyman House have observed the current building directive concerning parking.
No parking facilities are to be provided in such a development in central London. However, this directive does not ban any provision for transport for the disabled, for which no allowance is being made. At the developers’ interlinked scheme at St Edmund’s Terrace garages are being provided, notwithstanding the directive. The developers’ observance of the directive, at least at Twyman House, goes some way to alleviating the problems of vehicular access to the variety of offices and 72 housing units or flats planned there. However, vehicular access will continue to depend on an already existing and inadequate driveway. The acceptance of the ban on a car park as part of the development presumes upon adequate public transport. It is true that in the last few years that local bus services have been improved, but one of the main services passing directly in front of Twyman House on Camden Road is the highly unsatisfactory No 29. London Overground slightly further away at Camden Road station runs erratically.
This leaves the Northern line where lack of reinvestment and procrastination over the rebuilding of Camden Town station are taking their toll. The infra-structure necessary for the realistic adoption of the no-parking regulation is almost totally lacking.
There is already great pressure on the space for parking in Bonny Street which adjoins the site.
Alasdair Hawkyard
Bonny Street, NW1

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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