Westminster Council has validated a number of planning applications in Fitzrovia West so far during March 2023. This page will be updated until the monthly list is complete. Among the monthly list so far are: installation of tank and plant at 59-61 Bolsover Street and 224-228 Great Portland Street; various works to a listed building […]

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Oxford Street is set to get a £120mn makeover under new plans that are emerging from Westminster City Council. The council hopes to give Oxford Street a facelift complete with new green spaces and seating by spring 2026. But the council’s Labour party has scrapped plans to stop traffic driving east to west through the […]

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A cycle hangar is to be moved from one part of Warren Street in Fitzrovia to another location on the street because it is repeatedly struck by drivers of motor vehicles, according to a Camden Council report. The cycle hanger will be moved from outside number 45 to about 100m east to outside number 58 […]

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Camden Council has registered a large number of planning applications so far during March 2023 in Bloomsbury ward, which includes Fitzrovia East. (This page will be updated until the monthly list is complete.) Among the applications are: various details required by previous planning permission at 95-100 Tottenham Court Road; alterations to listed buildings at 34-36 […]

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Film crews will descend on the northern part of Fitzrovia this week to shoot scenes for an Amy Winehouse biopic. They have promised to keep disruption to a minimum. Starcross Films Ltd have written to residents and business owners to warn them of some disturbance from Monday 13 to Saturday 18 March as they set […]

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The University of Westminster has applied to Westminster Council for a new premises licence for 16 Riding House Street, in Fitzrovia West. They seek permission for a number of licensable activities, including the sale of alcohol for consumption on the premises, from 9am to midnight every day of the week. The premises is a small […]

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According to most sources, the name Fitzrovia was first used in the late 1930s and appeared in print for the first time in 1941. But it appears to have been used earlier — as much as 100 years’ ago. The conventional story goes that the name got used in the 1930s after the Fitzroy Tavern […]

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Westminster Council has installed CCTV cameras in Foley Street, Fitzrovia in an effort to thwart fly tippers at the dumping hot spot. The cameras are located at the junction with Candover Street and signs warn of their presence and states that “Fly tippers will be prosecuted”. “We are now working on a trial using CCTV […]

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Westminster Council has this month pledged to crack down on the number of empty homes in the borough and has launched a new strategy for properties vacant for more than six months. As part of the strategy it will ask residents to help the council identify homes that are left empty in an effort to bring […]

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More support is needed to help provide funding for housing for refugees who are building a new life in Camden, says the council leader. Speaking at the full council meeting on Monday 27 February, Georgia Gould said: “We are determined to be a borough that supports people who need to find a home.” She outlined some […]

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Primary school children will get free school meals “forever” in a move announced in Camden’s “cost of living budget” at the full council meeting on Monday 27 February. Council leader Georgia Gould said primary school children will get free school meals in a “permanent” move. “People are coming to us in tears because they can’t […]

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In March 1973 — 50 years ago this month — the first community newspaper for Fitzrovia was published by a group of volunteers, known as the Whitfield Street Study Group, based at what is now the nursery on Whitfield Street. The building was called the Whitfield Gardens Centre and the Tower community newspaper was just […]

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A despairing family is calling for work to be done urgently to sort out problems with a smelly, overflowing sewer at their home — months after they raised the issue with Clarion housing association bosses. The family who live in Fitzrovia said they have been plagued by problems when waste material overflows from drains from a […]

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A plan to create more public toilets at Tube and bus stations across London has been rejected by City Hall, despite most London Assembly members voting in favour of it. The £20 million proposal, put forward by Green Party members at City Hall, attracted support from the Assembly’s Liberal Democrat and Conservative groups — meaning […]

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A male tabby cat has been found abandoned in a Fitzrovia street, reports the Camden New Journal. The newspaper reports that the cat was found in a cardboard box outside Irving Court in Whitfield Street on Tuesday 14 February — Valentine’s Day. A woman took him in for the night before reporting the find to […]

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An application has been made by 48 Margaret Street Trading Ltd to Westminster Council for a new premises licence for the ground floor at 48 Margaret Street in Fitzrovia West. The applicant is seeking permission for licensable activities including the sale of alcohol from 10am to midnight from Sunday to Wednesday, and 10am to 1am […]

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Shops, restaurants and hotels in Fitzrovia will pay significantly less in business rates from this spring while occupiers of office premises will see their rate bills increase, according to new research carried out by a local business group. But do the findings stand up to scrutiny? The Valuation Office Agency updated the rateable values (RV) […]

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There should be a base for voluntary groups offering meals, showers and clothing for the homeless in Camden, according to a politician investigating rough sleeping. Councillor Richard Cotton, Camden’s cabinet adviser on rough sleeping, suggested the council could provide a building that voluntary organisations could run and use as a base — if funds allow. […]

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Extinction Rebellion (XR) Camden held a protest at Barclays Bank on Tottenham Court Road on Tuesday 14 February to draw attention to the bank’s continued investment in fossil fuel. Activists with placards entered the bank went up the escalator and down the stairs and stood in the window. After about an hour the Police attended […]

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In May 1974, artists David Medalla, Cecilia Vicuña, John Dugger and art critic Guy Brett co-founded the artist collective, Artists for Democracy (AFD). AFD was formed initially to raise support for democracy in Chile after the military coup in 1973, and to give “material and cultural support to liberation movements worldwide”, using art as “a way […]

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