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Suspicious about Waterlow Park
• WHEN exactly did the London Borough of Camden stop consulting us about the constant digging up of Waterlow Park?
It would be churlish of me to suggest that the new “nature reserves” in Waterlow Park do not have some environmental merit. However, I am suspicious that this financial year-end exercise is only designed to help Camden Council fulfil their environmental commitments. In their rush to get rid of the cash they must have forgotten to ask us if we actually want it.
Sir Sydney Waterlow gave his private estate to London County Council as a “garden for the gardenless”.
As a way of returning a green space used only by the few back to the many, I have a radical suggestion that I’m sure that Sir Sydney would approve of.
Camden Council could ask the Greater London Authority to compulsorily purchase Hampstead Golf Course and turn it into a nature reserve for all.
Ian Martin, N6
What happened to my quiet open-air snooze?
• IN Waterlow Park, we have lost one of the kitchen gardens for teaching children gardening, the top pond is enclosed and locked to visitors, we have another play area for children which takes up a lot of the green where people could picnic, and a large area cordoned off for wild flowers.
If you’re elderly like myself, the days of going up to Waterlow for a quiet sit-down and a snooze in the afternoon have gone. More often than not you will have hordes of children rushing about screaming.
Peter Compton
Lulot Gardens, N19
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