Help to save 50 new homes for homeless people!

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As part of our campaign with Priced Out and YIMBY Alliance, please urgently help us to stop this unloved building being listed, blocking 50 new homes for homeless families and individuals.

You can do it easily and quickly with one or two emails, just copy and paste and change the bits in bold:

To Historic England via email at listing.enquiries@historicengland.org.uk

Dear Historic England

I oppose the listing of the current building of 2 Chester Road in Camden because [delete/amend as applicable]

  • It would block 50 new homes for the homeless

  • The existing building is unloved and was not even listed as a positive contribution in the conservation area assessment

  • The building is not a good example of the architect's work

  • The building has little or no historic significance because there are far more important examples of the architect's and the council's work from that era

  • Listing the building will harm the environment because it will mean that fewer people will live in a place where they can walk and use public transport to meet their needs.

Please proceed quickly to a determination that the building should not be listed.

Yours faithfully

[YOUR NAME]



To Secretary of State Oliver Dowden via email at enquiries@culture.gov.uk

Dear Secretary of State

I oppose the listing of the current building at 2 Chester Road in Camden because [delete/amend as applicable]

  • It would block 50 new homes for the homeless

  • The existing building is unloved and was not even listed as a positive contribution in the conservation area assessment

  • The building is not a good example of the architect's work

  • The building has little or no historic significance because there are far more important examples of the architect's and the council's work from that era

  • Listing the building will harm the environment because it will mean that fewer people will live in a place where they can walk and use public transport to meet their needs.

  • Listing the building will harm protected groups, including ethnic minorities, people with physical disabilities and mental health problems.

If Historic England recommends listing of the current building, please do not accept their recommendation.

Yours sincerely

[YOUR NAME]



To your MP – email at https://members.parliament.uk/members/Commons

Dear [Your MPs name]

I write in relation to the proposed listing of the building at 2 Chester Road in Camden, preventing the building of 50 new homes for homeless people. Please could you forward this letter to the Secretary of State, Oliver Dowden.

I oppose the listing of the current building at 2 Chester Road in Camden because [delete/amend as applicable]

  • It would block 50 new homes for the homeless

  • The existing building is unloved and was not even listed as a positive contribution in the conservation area assessment

  • The building is not a good example of the architect's work

  • The building has little or no historic significance because there are far more important examples of the architect's and the council's work from that era

  • Listing the building will harm the environment because it will mean that fewer people will live in a place where they can walk and use public transport to meet their needs.

  • Listing the building will harm protected groups, including ethnic minorities, people with physical disabilities and mental health problems.

If Historic England recommends listing of the current building, please do not accept their recommendation.

Yours sincerely

[YOUR NAME]