Town centre: Difficult to find room to change (From Borehamwood Times)

Town centre: Difficult to find room to change

11:09am Friday 10th July 2009

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J Brown is right (‘Generosity can’t stretch that far’, Your Views, June 19) and that’s got to do with the “keep a low profile” attitude.

But please note that this is only one consequence of a mass of council housing, benefits culture, radicated in Borehamwood, where more and more people also from other parts of the country and abroad write on their application Elstree and Borehamwood as favourite place, chasing the dream of getting a bargain house or flat close to London and easy to melt in that kind of chav tribe.

This is the capital of EastEnders: the monument of failure.

I feel more like we are deep into that story where people live a low-profile lifestyle, actors become a role model in an already run down society, where politicians and councillors are increasingly loosing trust and are out of touch. In my opinion in this environment, it becomes very difficult to find room for improvement, despite the effort of many businesses and the council to keep the name of the town high.

Look at the past to find out why this happened here and ask yourself why Radlett, Elstree and Bushey are more valuable areas?

Have a walk there and see from yourself the differences. I can’t write any comment on this now but will if there is a real interest from readers.

So Mr Brown, it looks like Borehamwood was designed to be the centre of the “claimant village”, which has now turned into a melting pot full of many different things just like a charity shop. The presence of charity organizations and their business are the mirror of this society, which we are part of and someone surely benefits from it.

Dominic Buongiorno, Beech Drive, Borehamwood

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