City Road: breath of modernity

• I WAS truly shocked and disappointed by your reader’s comments (Views from council blocks are lost to these monsters, March 31).

I live at one of the towers pictured and can reassure readers that my building is fully occupied. Not by multimillionaire oligarchs as some people choose to believe but largely by hard-working couples with mortgages like myself – many of whom have children in local schools – paying high-band council taxes which in turn support social housing projects and other investments in our shared community.

I have a direct view onto the adjacent tower and the vast majority of apartments are occupied there too.

Lack of space in London is a well-known issue – the balance of supply and demand ultimately determines prices – and residential towers use space in a very efficient
manner.

In addition, over a third of the apartments in our development are allocated to social housing, helping those in need in our society.

Rather than monsters I feel that the buildings are very much the opposite – attractive and offering a refreshing breath of modernity in a previously neglected area.

The quality of architecture in modern London developments is truly world class, a mile away from the unimaginative beige bricked blocks of the past, and should be celebrated. Indeed, enthusiasts from all over the country travel many miles to view and photograph these developments.

I note that your reader considers Old Street roundabout a dirty building site, but
when completed it will change for the better an area in desperate need of regeneration, creating new public areas and attracting even more world-class businesses to invest in
jobs and infrastructure in the area.

This is particularly important at a time of economic uncertainty as Brexit Britain prepares for its future on the global stage outside the EU.

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