Fitzrovia News

Women coming-of-age in a world of stigma, bad sex education and internet porn

7:45 am, Monday, 20 May 2019

three young women standing against a wall.

A trio of coming-of-age stories about virginity, pleasure, and identity is told by three young women (played by Kara Chamberlain, Vanessa Labrie, Cicely Long and Gina Ruysen) who discover sexual empowerment for the first time. Friday Night Love Poem looks at the challenges [...]

Naomi Wolf talks to Erica Wagner about sex, censorship and surveillance

9:51 pm, Thursday, 9 May 2019

Feminist, best-selling author and former political adviser Naomi Wolf will be talking about her new book to the literary journalist Erica Wagner in Bloomsbury this month. In Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love, Wolf examines how the state came to [...]

Exhibition and final say on draft neighbourhood plan for Fitzrovia West

11:23 am, Thursday, 9 May 2019

Local residents and business people are invited to view and comment on a draft neighbourhood plan for Fitzrovia West at a public exhibition on Monday. The planning document — which will guide land development and environmental improvements — was first published [...]

Demolition theatre: how HS2 is displacing the living and disturbing the dead

1:26 pm, Tuesday, 7 May 2019

A new docudrama opens on the stage this week about the highly controversial £80bn (and rising) construction project to build a high speed railway line from London to Birmingham. Human Jam will be performed at the Camden People’s Theatre, a few hundred metres from [...]

History of Ottoman cuisine and photographic exhibition at Turkish cultural centre

4:44 pm, Wednesday, 6 March 2019

A talk on Ottoman cuisine and an exhibition of photographs are on offer this month at the Turkish cultural centre in Maple Street. Priscilla Mary Işın, author of “Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine”, will talk about the culinary culture of the Ottoman [...]

The estate agent known as ‘King of the Showrooms’ during rag trade heyday

10:15 pm, Tuesday, 5 March 2019

Irving Howard Brecker is one of the founding partners of the Robert Irving Burns estate agents in Margaret Street. He and his two colleagues set up the business in 1962. Irving Howard Brecker has been working as an estate agent in Fitzrovia since 1962. “Great Portland [...]

Camden and Mayor’s traffic scheme risks health of hundreds of residents at Fitzrovia council block

1:49 pm, Friday, 1 March 2019

The health of hundreds of residents in a council block in Fitzrovia is being put at risk because their street has been left out of the Mayor of London’s new Ultra Low Emission Zone and will have increased motor traffic from a new road scheme designed by Camden [...]

Neighbourhood Forum sets out five priorities for Fitzrovia West

2:44 pm, Wednesday, 20 February 2019

The Fitzrovia West Neighbourhood Forum has this month published a draft plan to shape land development in the area and is seeking comments from the community. The five-point plan sets out priorities for retaining a mixed community and more affordable housing, improving and [...]

Fitzrovia West Forum’s Neighbourhood Plan sets the priorities for the next 15 Years

2:36 pm, Wednesday, 20 February 2019

The FitzWest Neighbourhood Forum was set up in 2015 and one of its main functions is to prepare a neighbourhood plan for that part of Fitzrovia lying west of Cleveland Street and Charlotte Street as far south as Oxford Street in the City of Westminster. The Marylebone Road [...]

Taxis, media lies, and Tottenham Court Road

10:32 pm, Monday, 28 January 2019

For the sixth weekday evening in a row London Taxi drivers have blocked Tottenham Court Road between 4pm and 7pm, and brought the surrounding streets to a standstill. Many people have struggled to get home by public transport and many more are wondering what’s going [...]

Cars, taxis and lorries are not being banned from Tottenham Court Road

8:26 pm, Monday, 7 January 2019

Last week’s news in the Evening Standard about cars, taxis and lorries being banned from Tottenham Court Road in three months’ time (sic) brought jeers from drivers and cheers from active transport campaigners. But the Standard’s story was so full of [...]

Westminster council seeks local views on ‘Oxford Street District’ plans

8:48 am, Thursday, 6 December 2018

Map of Oxford Street and surrounding area.

An exhibition of plans to re-shape the ‘Oxford Street District’ will be held this weekend at the building formerly known as the Fitzrovia Community Centre. Westminster council is asking local residents and people who work or visit the area what they think of [...]

Tottenham Court Road strip club benefits OAPs in northwest England

10:35 pm, Tuesday, 4 December 2018

A lap dancing club in Tottenham Court Road is helping out pensioners in northwest England, according to a licence application submitted to Camden Council in October. The application to renew a sexual entertainment licence for Spearmint Rhino Gentlemen’s Club states [...]

Wreath-laying and rededication at restored Rangers Memorial for Armistice Centenary

2:36 pm, Tuesday, 6 November 2018

The recently restored London Rangers Cenotaph in Chenies Street will be rededicated at a wreath-laying ceremony at this year’s Remembrance Sunday, the one hundredth anniversary of the Armistice. The memorial has been restored as part of Camden’s West End Project [...]

Police talk on how to avoid becoming a victim of fraud and cybercrime

9:08 am, Friday, 5 October 2018

Experts from the police’s fraud and online crime unit will give a talk this Saturday on how to avoid becoming a victim of the various scams that target unsuspecting shoppers. Officers from FALCON (Fraud & Linked Crime Online, Organised Crime Command) will give a [...]

All day comedy in aid of a worthy cause at Fitzrovia pub

8:43 am, Friday, 5 October 2018

A Fitzrovia pub is hosting an all day comedy marathon in aid of cancer research for the second year running this Saturday. The second Macmillan Comedy Marathon takes place at the King & Queen in Foley Street under the banner of the Coffee and Cocktail Jokes comedy club [...]

Memorial service for man who died sleeping rough in Fitzrovia park

9:48 pm, Thursday, 20 September 2018

A memorial service will be held this Friday (21 September) at a church soup kitchen for a man who died while sleeping rough in Whitfield Gardens public open space. The man, known as Igor, was originally from Ukraine and died in his sleep on 31 August near where his friends [...]

Beige Holes of Fitzrovia: new squares are generic nowhere places derived from transactions and contracts

8:03 pm, Thursday, 20 September 2018

Two new privately owned public spaces (POPS) in Fitzrovia are products of development and real estate speculation in a wildly distorted market. The first project, completed in 2016, is GROSS.MAX.’s design for Fitzroy Place, and the second is Gustafson Porter + Bowman’s [...]

Guided walks explore London’s history of sexual diversity

8:55 am, Wednesday, 29 August 2018

Two fundraising guided walks to support international LGBT activists will take place in September and uncover the hidden sexual history of some familiar surroundings. London-based activist Richard Cohen is leading the guided tours, in affiliation with the Amnesty [...]

Nursery empty again after charities fail to agree on future plans

9:25 am, Tuesday, 28 August 2018

The children’s nursery in Whitfield Street is to close at the end of this week after more than ten years of serving the community with the loss of 25 places for under-fives because of a disagreement between two charities over improvements to the building and plans to [...]