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Licensing application: Java Whiskers, 105 Great Portland Street

Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:10:38 GMT

An application has been made to Westminster Council for a new premises licence at Java Whiskers, 105 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia, London W1W 6QF. Java Whiskers UK Ltd is seeking permission for the sale of alcohol for consumption on the premises from 10am to 8pm, Monday to Sunday. The business is described as a “cat […]

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Gower Street and TCR to become two-way for all traffic in February

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:29:41 GMT

Gower Street will become two-way for all traffic from February, and the planned and very complicated new traffic restrictions on Tottenham Court Road will also come into operation, as Camden Council’s West End Project limps towards its final act. The traffic changes will also affect Bloomsbury Street, and some parts of High Holborn and Shaftesbury […]

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Free short films to view at home from Turkish festival

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 07:33:00 GMT

The Turkish cultural centre in Maple Street, Fitzrovia, is making a series of short films available to view for free as part of a movie festival over the last week of January. Yunus Emre Institutes in London, Berlin and Washington are jointly holding the annual short film festival, “Cut Short, Live Long”. “Between Monday 25 January […]

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New hospital on Grafton Way ready for first patients

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 09:44:37 GMT

A newly built hospital on University College London Hospitals’ estate in Fitzrovia will treat its first patients this month as fitting out of the new clinical facility nears completion, say hospital managers. The final stage of works at the new Grafton Way Building is nearly finished, with handover of the above ground floors due imminently, […]

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Licensing application: 71 Great Portland Street

Sat, 16 Jan 2021 11:55:30 GMT

An application has been made to Westminster council for a premises licence at 71 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia, London W1W 7LR. The Crown Estate Commissioners have applied for a “shadow licence” to allow the sale by retail of alcohol on the premises on Monday to Thursday from 10:00 to 23:30, Friday to Saturday from 10:00 […]

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Neighbourhood forum criticises plan to extend hotel development into corner building

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 14:09:05 GMT

A community group which scrutinises local planning applications has severely criticised proposals by a property developer to expand a new hotel being built on Newman Street into a neighbouring building on the corner of Mortimer Street. Centrale Investments Limited owns a site at 50-57 Newman Street and has started construction on a new hotel which […]

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Museum is fundraising by publishing collection of Covid cartoons

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:20:21 GMT

At a time when many museums are struggling under the restrictions of the pandemic, Fitzrovia’s Cartoon Museum in Wells Street has found a way to think positive when, sadly, many people in London are testing negative, by publishing a special fundraising eBook entitled #DrawtheCoronavirus: A Cartoon Mini-Challenge from the Mind of Martin Rowson. The eBook […]

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Italian deli owner combines Brexit and Covid humour

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 21:20:22 GMT

An Italian delicatessen owner is (jokingly) asking customers to form two queues outside the shop in Great Titchfield Street in Fitzrovia. Embracing some dark Covid humour and the fallout from Brexit, signs have been placed outside the shop asking EU passport holders to line up on one side, and British passport holders on the other. […]

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Licensing application: The Treehouse Hotel, 14-15 Langham Place

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 14:58:14 GMT

An application has been made to Westminster council to vary the premises licence at The Treehouse Hotel, ground floor, 14-15 Langham Place, London W1B 2QS. The applicant, Mr Aran Handa, is seeking permission for a number of licensable activities including the sale of alcohol on and off the premises until 3am, and late night refreshment, […]

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The Oxford Music Hall reflected the changing fortunes of entertainment in Fitzrovia and the West End

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 07:51:00 GMT

The music hall was the most popular form of public entertainment in the 19th century and provided a mixture of popular songs, comedy, speciality and variety acts. Its origins lay in informal performances in pubs and pleasure gardens where the audience could watch while eating and drinking. Music halls could be found dotted around the […]

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Staff at University College Hospital under huge strain as they take on more Covid-19 patients

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 08:52:44 GMT

Staff at University College Hospital are facing a very difficult and critical period where they will be stretched to the limit and maybe beyond, dealing with an increasing number of Covid-19 patients. Last week a BBC News team was allowed to film inside the intensive care unit at the hospital on Euston Road to report […]

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Bear with us while we update our news site

Sun, 10 Jan 2021 13:58:30 GMT

We’re giving Fitzrovia News a refresh over the weekend so things may be a little different and flaky at times. Things should settle down over Sunday and into Monday while we improve the site and get it working properly. We also have an archive of our printed newspaper here, and the latest newsletters are here. […]

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Writing my latest novel took me back to the land of my birth to explore the complex ...

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 07:43:00 GMT

Fitzrovia and remote, rural Wales are worlds apart, and I wanted to bring them together in my latest and fifth novel, Saturdays are Black or White. I was brought up on a farm in Mid-Wales, and discovered this area of London when I came to study at the London School of Economics in the Ice …

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Planning applications in Fitzrovia West, December 2020

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 18:31:44 GMT

There were 13 planning applications in Fitzrovia validated by Westminster Council during December 2020. Most of the applications are for relatively small changes to buildings. Included in the monthly list is an application to vary a condition so as to extend the permitted opening hours at 7-9 Charlotte Street; a number of applications to replace …

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Planning applications in Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia, December 2020

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 15:17:50 GMT

There were 19 planning applications in Bloomsbury ward registered by Camden Council in December 2020. Among the applications listed below is a major development proposed across two sites: at 95-100 Tottenham Court Road and 14-19 Tottenham Mews, which Fitzrovia News reported on in December. There are four applications related to this development. Included on the …

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Keep up with the latest news, features, and comment in Fitzrovia during 2021

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 13:22:03 GMT

The first six months of 2021 — and quite possibly longer — will be a very difficult time for everyone, and production of a printed newspaper will be challenging. Producing a 16 page newspaper is a team effort and requires a lot of communication between our editors, proofreaders, and contributors, who are all volunteers. Which …

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Volunteer group plant over a hundred trees in local park

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 12:27:54 GMT

This winter the Friends of Crabtree Fields have been busy planting native trees to increase the amount of greenery, biodiversity, and habitat for birds, in one of the few truly green public open spaces in Fitzrovia. Over a hundred saplings were planted by volunteers in November and December, thanks to a gift of trees from …

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Camden appeals to ‘well intentioned’ but naughty anti-graffiti artist to stop

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 07:01:00 GMT

Camden Council’s West End Project team have appealed to a fast-moving mystery volunteer who has been covering up graffiti with a roller and black paint, to stop what they are doing and give the council’s own workers time to clean it off. So they are telling us… The Fitzrovia Mural — newly restored at a …

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Licensing application: restaurant, 102 Great Portland Street

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 15:38:46 GMT

An application has been made to Westminster Council for a new premises licence for a proposed restaurant at 102 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia, London W1W 6PD. Hrm Gathani Ltd has applied for a licence for the playing of recorded music indoors from Saturday to Sunday between 08:00 and 23:30, and from Monday to Friday between …

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Camden to start work on redesign of Tottenham Court Road cycle lane

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 07:05:00 GMT

Camden Council is to redesign and then re-open the Tottenham Court Road cycle lane which has been closed for over 18 months due to problems with its safe operation. The short cycle lane which connects Torrington Place to Howland Street is part of the West End Project — a £35m scheme by Camden Council to …

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