Camden community organisations are invited to join an online event this week to find out how to set up a local food co-op. In 2021 Cooperation Town secured funding from Camden Council and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to develop a local network of food co-ops across the borough, supported by a local food hub. […]

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Lord David Neuberger, former president of the Supreme Court, has opened a new law clinic in Bloomsbury which will give free free housing advice to people living in Camden who can’t afford a solicitor and do not qualify for legal aid. Bloomsbury Institute’s Bloomsbury Law Clinic was officially opened on Friday 14 January and will […]

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Whistle Punks UK Limited has applied to Westminster Council for a variation of the premises licence at the ground floor and basement of 52-53 Eastcastle Street, Fitzrovia. The application is to reduce the terminal hours of licensable activities and to change a number of conditions to reflect the new function of the premises. “The provision […]

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Westminster Council has validated five planning applications so far during January in Fitzrovia West. (The list will be updated after the end of the month.) Among the list of applications are plans for alterations at 2a Great Titchfield Street; tables and chairs outside 3 Charlotte Place; and details of waste and recycling management required by […]

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Camden Council has registered six planning applications so far this month in Bloomsbury ward. (This page will be updated with the full monthly list after the end of the month.) Among the list of applications are plans to build a five storey extension within the courtyard of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, 25 Howland Street; a […]

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Volunteers have this winter planted 100 trees as part of an ongoing project to restore and improve a Fitzrovia park. The Friends of Crabtree Fields have planted saplings to repair existing hedges and create new habitat for wildlife in the park on the corner of Colville Plae and Whitfield Street. Saplings of hawthorn, rowan, blackthorn, […]

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Tributes have been paid to mural artist Brian Barnes who died suddenly at his home in Battersea. Better known for large artworks in south London, he was commissioned to paint the mural on the side of the Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Centre in Goodge Place as part of a year 2000 project by the Fitzrovia Play Association. […]

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In the latest Camden History Review Robert Todd describes the relationship between the facts and the fiction of the places where novelist and critic Virginia Woolf spent twenty-four years living. From 1904 to 1912 she lived at Gordon, Fitzroy and Brunswick Squares; and then from 1924 to 1940 at Tavistock and Mecklenburgh Squares. The facts […]

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Cycling is enjoyable, gives you independence, and helps to keep you fit and healthy. Those are some of the reasons why in many countries such as The Netherlands more women than men cycle to get around. And it is why more and more women in London are doing this same. This coming Sunday 16 January […]

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The “Oxford Street District” programme director was the council’s highest paid employee, Westminster Council documents have revealed. Elad Eisenstein was paid a £220,000 salary, even higher than the chief executive of the council who has a £217,545 salary. Eisenstein’s role was to work with residents, businesses and other stakeholders to deliver the Oxford Street District Scheme […]

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The Fitzrovia Chapel starts off 2022 with a special exhibition celebrating the life and work of the performance artist, club promoter and fashion designer Leigh Bowery. Spanning the world of art, fashion, and music, Bowery pushed his body through ever more extreme creations, designed to shock and thrill. As a model he sat for painters […]

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An application has been made to Camden Council for a new premises licence at 14 Bedford Square in Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia. Fourteen Bedford Square Ltd is seeking permission for a number of licensable activities within the lower ground floor of the building, including the showing of films, live music, late night refreshment, and the sale […]

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Westminster Council has validated six planning applications in Fitzrovia West so far during December 2021 (this list will be updated at the beginning of next month). Dual /alternative use of the lower ground and ground floor levels as retail, office, gym and / or health clinic under Class E (a) (d) (g i) (e).  34 […]

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Camden Council has registered 20 planning applications so far during December 2021 in Bloomsbury ward (this list will be updated at the beginning of next month). Among the monthly list are a number of applications for pavement licences to enable outside eating and drinking at Goodge Street, Store Street, Charlotte Street, Charlotte Place, and Warren […]

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1821 Investments Ltd has applied to Westminster Council for a premises licence at the basement and ground floor of 40 Mortimer Street, which is on the corner with Great Titchfield Street, Fitzrovia. The applicant is seeking permission for the following licensable activities: The sale of alcohol for consumption on and off the premises from 10am […]

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Lantana Catering Services Ltd has applied to Camden Council for a new premises licence for 80 Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia. The premises also includes 78 Charlotte Street on the corner with Chitty Street. The applicant is seeking permission for the sale of alcohol for consumption both on and off the premises from 10.00 am to 10.30pm […]

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Councillors have voted unanimously to reject a planning application to reduce the number of social homes on the Middlesex Hospital Annex and former Strand Union Workhouse site in Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia. During the planning meeting developer UCLH Charity said if the application is not approved it will “almost certainly” appeal the decision and “very likely” […]

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Nowadays I don’t go to nearly as many exhibitions as I did in pre-Covid times. So over the summer I was delighted to encounter three artists I knew very little about. What’s more, I discovered that two of them had links with Fitzrovia. At the Whitechapel Gallery in East London there was a rare opportunity […]

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Electric buses, more public loos and boutique stores were some of the suggestions made for improving the shopping experience in Oxford Street, at a meeting of a Westminster City Council scrutiny committee this week. The Council is trying to revamp Oxford Street as it recovers from the financial blows of the pandemic and the decline […]

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Camden Council is seeking the views of residents and community groups on its Site Allocations Plan, a document that identifies possible development sites within the borough and their possible uses. The final document will become part of Camden’s Local Plan to control and shape land development. “Over the last few months we have had requests […]

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