Around 140 businesses in Fitzrovia West are being balloted this month on a proposal to create a business improvement district (BID) in Fitzrovia West. The BID ballot will be administered by Westminster Council’s electoral services. Ballot papers are being distributed this week and need to be returned by Tuesday 31 October. The results will be […]

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“For me £2,000 was a life-changing amount.” So spoke Aran at the Warren Centre, Whitfield Place on 23 September, at the celebration of ten years of Open Wing Trust. In a small gathering of trustees, past and present, and other supporters, two grant recipients spoke very movingly of the difference the grants had made to […]

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Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters tackled a blaze at a building site on Fitzroy Street in Fitzrovia on Wednesday 27 September. An industrial boiler on the sixth floor of the building was destroyed by fire. Around 130 people left the building before the London Fire Brigade arrived and two men were treated on […]

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Camden Council has opened a public consultation today on proposed changes to the street environment at Adeline Place, Bedford Square, and Great Russell Street, on Fitzrovia’s lower east side. The council is asking for residents views on junction alterations, pavement widening, the introduction of a new cycle hire docking station, cycle parking stands, a bike […]

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Westminster City Council has launched a consultation on its proposal to create an inclusive evening and night-time plan and is seeking the views of residents. The council says it wants “our community to be safe, sustainable, inclusive, and accessible” and is inviting residents to join its Evening and Night-time Stakeholder Assembly. A map has also […]

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An appeal has been made to find a dog which went missing on the afternoon of Saturday 30 September 2023 from an address in Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia The female dog is a black and white, border collie greyhound mix, answers to the name Isla and is described as very friendly. The last possible sighting of […]

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Camden Council has disabled its Community Safety email inbox mere weeks after putting up posters at Crabtree Fields open space directing the public to use the email address. It now asks its “customers” to use a “more reliable” system… which crashed on Friday morning. In an email on 22 September to some residents and community […]

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A family-run business can serve alcohol at its new Store Street branch after Camden Council agreed to grant a premises licence but added a condition to ensure the council’s “women’s safety principles” are adopted at the restaurant. Honey and Co Daily will be Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich’s fourth branch to open in central London […]

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Mojereh 63 GTS Limited has made an application to Westminster Council for a new premises licence at Naroon Counter, 63 Great Titchfield Street in Fitzrovia West. The application seeks permission for the sale of alcohol to drink on and off the premises from 7am to midnight from Monday to Thursday, 7am until 1am the following […]

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The public are being offered a rare opportunity of a guided visit to the London Borough of Camden Archives in Holborn, as part of Libraries Week in October 2023. On offer is a guided tour of Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre with local history guru and borough archivist Tudor Allen. The visit will include […]

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Police have closed Tottenham Court Road between Maple Street and Euston Road, and closed Grafton Way between Gower Street and Whitfield Street in Fitzrovia due to an incident this morning. Multiple emergency vehicles can be seen from outside the police cordon. Bus services are being disrupted. Please avoid the area. More information when we have […]

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A Westminster City Council meeting of the full council descended into a shouting match and jeers after a motion declaring an “ecological emergency” was passed. Rival councillors booed and taunted each other after the Labour administration passed a declaration to shore up ecosystems. Bringing the motion forward, councillor Ryan Jude, cabinet member for climate action and […]

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Westminster Council has validated a number of planning application so far during September 2023 in Fitzrovia West. An appeal has also been lodged against a planning application decision. Appeals

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In a blow to sustainable transport in Fitzrovia and across London independent cycle shop Velorution will be closing all its stores this month — bringing an abrupt end to the brand’s long history with the neighbourhood. In an email to customers on Friday 15 September an unnamed representative of the store announced: “Velorution has been […]

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Westminster Council is to pay out over £12,500 in compensation to tenants after complaints about the standard of service were upheld by ombudsman investigations. The General Purposes Committee heard reports about four tenants who had complained including a disabled woman who was left unable to wash her hands without help for 17 months. The Local […]

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Camden Federation of Private Tenants will have two guest speakers from AgeUK at its 2023 annual general meeting this month to advise residents on how to avoid being scammed. Ann-Marie Carrol, scam prevention and support officer, and Paul Webley, information and advice manager at AgeUK will be talking about the different type of scams, how […]

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A new local news publication will be launched this month to serve an area centred on Kings Cross on the boundary with Camden and Islington. Published and edited by former broadcaster Enda Twomey, The Fleet News — named after the river that runs underground through the area — will serve the neighbourhoods of Kings Cross […]

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Westminster Council has published the Traffic Management Order (TMO) proposing to change the flow of traffic from one-way to two-way working along Mortimer Street and Wigmore Street, as part of its Oxford Street Programme. The TMO would introduce two way working for all traffic on Wigmore Street (between Wimpole Street and Harley Street); Cavendish Square […]

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Construction work on two major sites in Fitzrovia is currently taking place side by side. At Bedford Passage the former Middlesex Hospital Annex redevelopment is reaching its final phase as concrete is poured and steel erected to create the main tower block on the site. Fencing has now been installed to the south at 14-19 […]

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Camden Council has announced that it will appoint landscape architects next year to redesign Crabtree Fields public open space — a decision that will likely see the destruction of much of the park’s greenery and habitat for wildlife. At a meeting in July with police and parks officers to address concerns about the behaviour of […]

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