The announcer, actor, comedian and travel writer, who lives in Gospel Oak, spoke in ‘One night with Michael Palin’ in support of the Association of the Crescent Community of Queen’s (QCCA) on Monday night (April 14).
Entertaining fans with stories of how Monty Python movies were in the 1970s and their most recently trotting adventures.
After the event, the two local newspapers of the municipality, the Ham and tall and the Camden New JournalThey were invited to spend five minutes with the star and have dinner at their thoughts on the planned development in Gospel Oak and Kentish Town.
The Mount Anvil developer has plans to regenerate the old property of Bake Low Rise on behalf of the Camden Council, adding two towers of up to 26 floors.
Palin said he felt that the oak of the Gospel was “attacked.”
“It is very sad if the Gospel oak became a large number of bedrooms with people who work in the city,” he added.
“Many people in Oak Gospel work in the city, but they kept the houses at the height. We do not need 80 -story towers around here.
“I see that the neighborhoods become totally high and lose their soul.
“I think the oak Gospel has a soul, it is indefinable, it is nothing more than Hampstead, it is not Camden Town, it is at some intermediate point.
“I have stayed here for a long time. You feel that when you are here there is something about the place that works, there is a son of harmony.”
However, he said that “he was not specifically condemning Bacton Towers.”
“They have an impossible task to build private homes to finance affordable homes and I don’t know how to close that gap,” he added.
“It seems to me that it is the people who want to live in blocks of towers who want to have a place to return to the event, somewhere to stay the night, they will not live there forever.
“As one who has lived in this area for 60 years, the concept of moving from here, is not attractive. I have friends in the area, I know the area.
“I think you are in danger of building houses for people who only want it for a temporary time.”
