I read with interest online reports and your article (‘It was simply horrible’, Barnet & Potters Bar Times, February 12).

I struggle to understand why the ‘leader’ of Barnet Councillor Richard Cornelius went into the election promising to build more affordable homes while the shocking fact in his own ward is large blocks of homes and garages have been demolished, with more residents being ‘moved elsewhere’ and their terraces boarded up. In the interim this Barnet Borough Council plan will reduce the supply, pushing prices further up for all of us.

Whilst I think most residents were co-operative, the consultation with community leaders could have been better informed. I also noticed that many excess household items were put in the wrong bins by the bailiffs or robbed for scrap metal before they had a chance to recover them. Let’s hope the local authority do not similarly sweep away their residents, many of them Army families moved from Mill Hill, as if they were rubbish.

Ben Samuel

Green Party parliamentary candidate for Hendon