My family and I have been residents in 5 Fitzroy Lane, which is one of the leasehold properties within the area of proposed major change, since the year 2000. I have never once been directly contacted by the developers or the council about a proposal which - to judge from the illustrative plans - involves destroying my family home and replacing it with a different building. On on occasion we received a note from the Grafton inviting us to a meeting to hear about plans for the development of the shopping mall area, but as my wife and I both work full-time we could not attend; and there was no indication in the letter that there were plans to destroy our home. This is utterly astonishing, and although I have no doubt that the bare minimum of legality has been followed, this lack of honest or direct consultation of the inhabitants of the building is frankly immoral and probably indefensible if subject to legal challenge. I shall be contacting my councillor to make formal representations separately, and also be taking legal advice.