Patricia Michelson, owner of La Fromagerie

• CONCERNING La Fromagerie, (‘LTNs are killing the high street – people want Deliveroo’, November 12) none of us wish to see independent businesses do anything other than thrive.

There are well over three-quarters of a million potential customers within four or five often walkable, or busable, or cycleable miles of shops in Highbury Barn.

Cheese is sold in Kent! (We’ve lost out with LTNs, November 12).

Customers should not be being encouraged to travel from Kent, by car, making 80-mile round trips, to pick up parmesan! Let’s encourage people to shop local. La Fromagerie also has an online shop.

Labour held all seats on the council bar one and were given a ringing endorsement of their policies when five Labour councillors were returned in by-elections in May 2021 after the introduction of LTN trials.

I suspect the quiet majority of residents are very much in favour of LTNs. Over 70 per cent of households in Islington do not own a car.

In inner London, including Islington, 90 per cent of residents live on residential streets, not high streets or main roads. Many of our council estates are on residential roads, social housing flats too.

I’m a council tenant and I live on a residential road that became a major cut-through over the last 10 years. Result, disrupted sleep and filthy air!

LTNs reduce vehicles polluting these streets. Measures are desperately needed for main roads too; boundary roads are full of drivers one to a car, lots not working, not disabled. The numbers are up on pre-pandemic figures.

The Highbury LTN consultation is scheduled for January 2022. All other trials will be having a formal consultation too. Look out for them and complete them, you silent LTN lovers.

Approve them, we might lose them.

DENISE BYRNE, N5