The site is now infested with Japanese knotweed, which is a notifiable growth, not that Camden Council will do much more than shrug and quite possibly say that it is a matter for the planning inspector.

If nothing else, this will undermine the fabric of the development (I would write 'foundations' but as a good third of the des. res. being built are underground, that doesn't seem like the right word).

Prospective investors and owners, beware - when the tendrils work their way through those 'thinnest possible' walls, don't say you weren't warned!

In the olden days, people used to send each other notes, rather than emails. 'Thank you' or other messages of significance meritted a special card. These still exist and an artist working in Camden has such cards for sale on her stall in the market. Rather charmingly, they feature Little Green Street. I don't imagine there will be such loving attention paid to 'Railway McMansions'...

Now Little Green Street, NW5 has turned into every picture editor's idea of aspirational living (see Sky below and countless other examples in the 'Pictures' section of the site, we find ourselves abused in the most unlikely ways... The latest to illustrate insurance fraud in The Sunday Times. Its a pity no-one uses us to illustrate stupidity in planning...

Given that the development of the 'Railway Club McMansions' will take at least four years (ie to Summer 2013) during which a large section of Highgate Road (the nearest proper road to the site) will have to be closed to traffic as it is needed for a staging post for the trucks which will navigate Little Green Street every few minutes, er what about the cycling event scheduled to run up the road to scenic Hampstead?

I can hear the commentary now "And Lance Armstrong pedals past one of the world's 500 places to see before it was lost to greed..."

Mr Left Hand meet Mrs Right hand. Only in Britain can we drop such a monster planning bollock.

It's official. The cobbles are being torn up on Monday 27 July. The 'Section 106' agreement has been to all intents abandoned, with the conditions designed to protect the residents from the very worst outrages meaningless as they are quietly forgotten by the latest incarnation of the developers, following yet another churn of officials at Camden.

Why am I surprised?

Anyway, although there is no guarantee that the developer's men will be any more organised over this date than any other, now is the time to tread the cobbles for the last time before they are lost to 'progress'.

You have three weekends remaining.

Check back every morning for a daily bulletin - tomorrow, how the abuse of Little Green Street will damage London's Olympic reputation.