Letters to the Editor

Friends of the Earth congratulates Karen Buck MP for backing a call in Parliament to bring cheaper and greener transport options to Regent's Park and Kensington North.

Transport accounts for a quarter of UK carbon emissions.

Dear Sir,
Karen Buck must live an alternative universe totally divorced from reality.

The financial crisis/recession suffered by our country has been severe and damaging than any other G7 state and we are experiencing no growth scraping along the bottom the last industrialised nation still to emerge from the crisis.

Dear Sir,
Westminster residents deserve a better deal on parking.

After the next election we will introduce policies to promote Fairer Parking right across Westminster, from Pimlico to Paddington.

Dear Sir,

Opposition to the sale of affordable rented homes by Crown Estates is both understandable and justified.

In 2005/6, the Church Commissioners sold some 1,400 affordable tenanted homes in Maida Vale, Stoke Newington, Waterloo & Vauxhall to a private residential company and its housing association partner for £237million.

WHO comes first? Working with other people can be frustrating but, if Joanne Cash can only deal with it by resigning, she's not ready to be an MP.

She has shown her disdain for the people of Westminster North by this display. They need someone who takes their needs seriously, works hard for them and cares

about them. This is what Labour's Karen Buck does, and will continue to do. Karen would never walk out on her constituents.

COUNCILLOR RUTH BUSH Labour member for Harrow

Road Ward Westminster City Hall

I am pleased to see from Councillor Dimoldenberg's letter that the Labour Party has decided to support the Liberal Democrat campaign to introduce a 20mph speed limit in residential areas, although he does not mention, as I did in a letter to voters almost a month ago, the need to make sure that it is vigorously enforced.

Changing the rules is completely pointless if the rules can be ignored with impunity.

Councillor Dimoldenberg does however tend to ignore rules himself. You say plainly that letters should be 300 words maximum, but his letter is almost 550 words in length.

ANTHONY WILLIAMS, Liberal Democrat candidate for

Bayswater Ward

City of Westminster

I was pleased to read in last week's issue of the paper that the Westminster Chronicle is supporting the campaign to introduce Twenty is Plenty speed limit zones in Westminster.

Bayswater Liberal Democrats have been consulting residents to see if they want such zones introduced in their areas.

Dear Sir,

Conservative Councillors from Tachbrook and Vincent Square wards are calling for an urgent meeting with the Crown Estate.

They are fighting the Estate's proposals to sell affordable homes to an unknown bidder and are concerned at the damage that might be done to the local community, as well as the uncertainty and distress being inflicted on individual residents.

Dear Editor
It's a rare for an issue to arise which bridges the political divide but the full or partial closure of five Thames crossings right across the capital is one of those issues.

It beggars belief that no one thought closure of these crossing would cause anything other than chaos.

Sir,
Your readers may have read recently how the council has renewed its waste and recycling contract.

It was a tough tendering process and we drove a hard deal in order to obtain the best value for money possible for the taxpayer.