Dixon Clark Court

• WHY is Cllr Diarmaid Ward, Islington Council’s executive member for housing and development, determined to have two entrances at the proposed residential buildings outside Dixon Clark Court at Highbury, one for the better off (in private housing) and one for the worse off (in council housing), so needing the felling of mature trees next to busy roads and a school?

The danger of classes mixing was one of the main objections to blocks of flats being built in the 1860s. It is rather odd that keeping social classes separate still matters to the Islington Labour Party in the 21st century.

The two separate entrances to the buildings are the reason mature trees will have to be felled. One single entrance would spare the trees. Any explanation from Cllr Ward?

ANITA FRIZZARIN,
N19