One Museum Street in Holborn

• COUNCILLOR Adam Harrison, “cabinet member for a sustainable Camden”, writes at length about how the council is committed to improving air quality, (Action on air pollution, June 17).

Fine words, but how do they match the deeds of his Labour regime in recent years?

What about their policy of moving traffic off roads with mostly business frontages (such as Museum Street and Bloomsbury Square) and diverting it down residential streets (such as Little Russell Street and Bury Place) where it can sit in queues pumping fumes directly into the basement windows of people’s homes?

What about their cutting down magnificent mature trees to make way for motor vehicles?

And then there’s their seeming support for a plan to replace buildings on Museum Street with a monstrous tower, two-thirds the height of Centre Point, despite all the health dangers (mental as well as physical) to people living alongside it while such a vast project happens, (Tower block does not have enough affordable homes, June 4).

And that’s even apart from the disastrous environmental wastefulness of destroying and replacing existing buildings which could be refurbished and repurposed.

Is it any surprise that an international medical geography symposium a couple of years ago pointed out that three of the 10 unhealthiest places to live in the whole country were in just one borough – Camden?

Comparing the councillor’s words with the council’s policies and actions, the word hypocrisy springs to mind.

ALBERT BEALE
Little Russell Street, WC1