The Council have their thirty pieces of silver (well £130,000) from the developers to dig up the street. I've written before that the Highways Department have alweays been unnaturally keen to get digging (remember when they pretended it was on behalf of Thames Water?) but the developers (Euroinvestments Limited through the project's architects Peter Tigg Partnership) have to comply with pages of conditions before they can start.

None of you will be surprised that Mr Patel has shown no interest in doing anything about them, nor honouring commitments to surveys (ibid.) and will quite possibly just turn up and start anyway, but with an almost entirely new team of officers, top to bottom at Camden, perhaps they will be held to them.

Forgive my cynicism, but I will believe it when I see it.

So the latest is that Little Green Street will not be ripped up until 'September' and that the trees will be accidentally killed soon after that. If this coincides with Open House it might prove embarassing, but little else.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention the 'average/typical' 48 truck movements a day along the street during the early part of the four year demolition, excavation and construction adventure that will follow the ground-breaking. It was the prospect of that madness that started this campaign. Soon you'll be able to see for yourself.

At least they'll lose money on it.