Camden round up: 1

I thought I’d add a new element to this blog – the Camden round-up, highlighting issues that local people have raised over the last week/weeks.

Mick Farrant complains that the council has just hiked a builder’s parking permit from £10 per day to £33. A constituent of mine has pointed out that if you have more than one job going on in your home, this could set you back a huge amount - the Town Hall needs to look at this again.

Legal columnist and Camden Town resident Marcel Berlins argues that the council’s youth council idea is an unrealistic one.

Right wing Lib Dem Cllr. Paul Braithwaite takes a pop at Transport for London staffing salaries, ludicrously arguing that “TfL poaches large numbers of our staff, particularly engineers, having used this borough as its training ground, and then pays them way over the boroughs’ market rate – thus creating staff shortages here in Camden to prepare and install schemes at the grassroots. TfL has literally dozens of excellent ex-Camden staff and this is causing us real recruitment and retention problems.” This is a silly argument - perhaps he should pay Camden staff a bit more for their work, rather than patronising them that TfL pays over the odds.

My letter on the benefits to the Regent’s Park estate of the Osnaburgh Street British Land development was published in the CNJ.

Philobiblon – aka Regent’s Park Green Natalie Bennett – analyses the elections from a Green perspective.