New homes were due for completion on Bacton Low Rise estate in 2017 

• THE destruction of Gospel Oak continues.

We now have yet more “developments” to “improve” Queen’s Crescent and close our roads, starting this week.

Yet the outcome of Camden Council promises of a brave new future for Gospel Oak residents can be seen in what happened to the Bacton Low Rise estate (pictured above).

The 290 or so new homes to be built on it were due for completion in 2017. Some 40 plus council tenant families, rehomed temporarily elsewhere, were promised that they would be able to return.

In addition 16 small workshops, many of which employed local people, were razed to the ground and not replaced. This site has been like this for nearly eight years.

The council’s secret assembly planning the future of Gospel Oak has produced a document which has even more “promises”, but it is not being published “at the present time”.

The council’s Carlton Community Provision Working Group (whose chair refuses to speak to the CNJ) is similarly working in secret on the future use of the building.

No doubt both will promise us spanking new facilities; but the photograph illustrates the reality of council promises in Gospel Oak.

MICK FARRANT, NW5