Regarding your article Eruv licence is granted'. The size and height of the poles was agreed at the public inquiry in 1993.

If they are altered, the whole scheme should be reapplied for as it would be a different application.

Furthermore, members of the public are still entitled to know if the insurance cover provided by the united synagogue eruv committee indemnifies Transport for London and/or Barnet Council in the event of loss or damage arising as a result of malicious damage to an eruv pole or wire.

Apart from accidents at gateways or wires, there are many potentially dangerous sites, including parapet bridges on London Transport's railway in front of an electric intake box and adjoining a bridge over the M1 motorway.

Elizabeth Lawrence

Barnet Eruv Objectors Group

Wentworth Road, Golders Green

July 1, 2002 15:30