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Islington Tribune - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 25 September 2009
 
Must it be a ghetto?

• THE weekend’s Open House London afforded the opportunity to visit the new development at 28 Laycock Street, a mix of private and social housing. It also provided the opportunity to compare this excellent and sympathetic scheme with Arsenal’s money-making plans for Queensland Road.
Perhaps it would be instructive for Islington Council planners to visit the development in order for them to appreciate fully the meaning of social integration in housing.
It would, however, be more than likely pointless for either Arsenal or its consultants to visit the Laycock scheme, given their all-consuming concern with maximising their own cash flows, their complete disregard for the quality of life for people who will be condemned to live in the proposed social housing ghetto that will be Queensland Road and their contempt for the social amenity and welfare of their immediate neighbours.
D THOMAS
Bryantwood Road, N7



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