Readers letters
100 Avenue Road from above during January 2021.
- Credit: Edie Raff
And this reviled behemoth returns
Peter Symonds, Canfield Gardens, Hampstead, writes:
It comes as no surprise to those of us who spent several years fighting Essential Living’s (EL) plans for a 24-storey tower block at Swiss Cottage, to hear them now claim that they’re no longer able to afford to include the promised 36 affordable housing units in their development for the site at 100 Avenue Road (Ham&High). They’ve made similar claims on numerous other multi-million-pound developments, and it was clear from the moment they won their appeal against Camden’s original refusal of this particular project that they were determined to dismantle as many as possible of the conditions of their planning permission as might minimise their vast profits.
Polly Hancock
Hampstead High St, NW3
What are your favourite landmarks on a lockdown stroll through Hampstead Village? Email your pictures to editorial@hamhigh.co.uk
The London and North Eastern Railway ghost sign in South End Green, with the Royal Free Hospital in the background
- Credit: Polly Hancock
The former Dudmans Hampstead Borough Stores, above The Hampstead Butcher
- Credit: Polly Hancock
Hampstead s distinctive tile street signs, pointing the way
- Credit: Polly Hancock
The former parish lockup in Cannon Lane
- Credit: Polly Hancock
The Heath and Hampstead Society s plaque on the former parish lockup in Cannon Lane
Hampstead Heath has seen more visitors than ever during the pandemic.
- Credit: André Langlois Unacceptable cuts to budgets on Hampstead Heath have been slammed by members of a Heath committee.
A decision made by the City of London Corporation (CoLC) chamberlain to cut budgets by £1.6m was heavily criticised this week by the Heath committee, particularly in light of more people than ever before using the green space amid the pandemic.
CoLC figure Karina Dostalova even said the combination of a 12 per cent cut to the Heath, Highgate Wood and Queen s Park superintendent s budget with a 50pc cut to the cyclical works programme (CWP) was outrageous .
Marc Hutchinson, Chair, Heath & Hampstead Society
Published:
9:30 AM December 31, 2020
Updated:
2:36 PM January 7, 2021
H&HS Chair Marc Hutchinson receives picture to commemorate sheep trial. Pictures: Diana von R Photography
- Credit: Diana Von R Photography
For Hampstead’s Heath and Village this has been a year like no other.
Nevertheless, despite the bad things, there have been many good ones for which to be thankful.
The Heath, with 16 million visits, has taken a real battering, especially around its southern end, but what a godsend it has been to Londoners in lockdown, and how grateful we are to superintendent Bob Warnock and his exhausted team for dealing with so many problems such as litter, free-for-all cycling and illegal encampments.