THANK you for the excellent coverage of Lord Tebbit's visit to Chingford Hall last week.

For the record, I would like to echo the sentiments in your editorial, "Remember all in HAT's success", in acknowledging the considerable effort of the London Borough of Waltham Forest to find solutions to the estates' problems from the mid 1980s.

As your article about the visit rightly points out, the tenants have been the driving force behind the ten-year regeneration process, and it was the council which originally put in place the framework for tenant representation that has worked so successfully during the Housing Action Trust's lifetime.

Early next year we shall be publishing a final report covering the full ten-year period of our operation. The introduction will include full details of the role played by the council prior to 1992.

Also for the record, when we close the new homes will not be passed to our successor body, WF Community Based Housing Association (CBHA).

The CBHA already owns the majority of the new housing following the landlord-choice ballot in July this year.

MIKE WILSON,

chief executive,

Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust,

Kirkdale Road,

Leytonstone.