On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Alan (in Brussels) wrote:

A MULTI-MILLION pound development that would have changed the face of
Camden Town has been thrown out by the Deputy Prime Minister.

The plan was originally rejected by Camden Council and now John Prescott
has agreed that, although the Northern Line station needs an upgrade,
the block would have ruined the area.

Hmm. How exactly you could make Camden any more horrible than it already
is is a bit of a mystery to me. Or would making it a bit smarter ruin it?
That said, the change of use embodied in the plans was awful, so i guess
i'm with Big John on this one.

The ideal plan would be to preserve the buildings, improve the station,
then murder every goth, drug dealer, tourist, tat merchant and other
variety of idiot in a five-mile radius. Now that's what i call urban
renewal!

Brian Coleman, Camden and Barnet member of the London Assembly, slammed
the decision.

He said: "It's an absolute betrayal by the government of users of the
Northern Line.

"This is the end of the project. We needed that new station, now the
users of the Northern Line face decades of misery."

Good to see society's intellectually challenged are being given good homes
in the London Assembly. Does he think LU are just going to give up on
Camden? Surely all they have to do is tone the plans down so they don't
completely destroy the town centre, and they'll be accepted.

tom

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.... but when you spin it it looks like a dancing foetus!