Fitzrovia News

Solving London’s air pollution hotspots requires action over a wide area

3:07 pm, Monday, 29 May 2017

Residents in the neighbourhoods around Oxford Street and the campaign group Living Streets now stand facing each other in the first battle over how surface transport should serve London’s busiest shopping street. In an email sent out by Living Streets the campaign [...]

Theresa May appears as Marilyn Monroe

9:37 pm, Saturday, 27 May 2017

Street art painting of Theresa May as Marilyn Monroe by Loretto.

Prime minister Theresa May has been depicted as Marilyn Monroe in a piece of street art which appeared on a wall on a street corner in Fitzrovia this weekend. The stencil painting is signed by Loretto and shows May with her trademark leopard skin shoes with her skirt [...]

Women’s art group to take part in pop art exhibition at British Museum

7:21 am, Friday, 26 May 2017

Women around table working on art project.

A Fitzrovia women’s art group will join other community organisations this summer in putting on a display of pop art at the British Museum. London Pop is a collaborative art installation and a response to American Dream: pop to the present, a major exhibition which has [...]

Four survivors recall the trauma of childhood in chapel performance

7:57 am, Thursday, 18 May 2017

At the Fitzrovia Chapel next month is a new play, Finishing Touches, by established theatre playwright Brian Daniels. This dynamic modern production explores the impact of childhood sexual abuse on survivors. Carol and her daughter Dawn struggle with their strained [...]

Family law and relationship therapy served with coffee and cake

7:57 am, Wednesday, 17 May 2017

If your relationship is getting you down then help is at hand at a cosy cafe in Warren Street which is hosting a number of free workshops designed to soften the impact of familial discord with the help of some sugar-laced treats. Family law solicitors from Grayfords on [...]

Neighbourhood groups say no to Oxford Street ‘transformation’ plans

10:52 am, Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Community groups from the four districts surrounding Oxford Street are calling on residents to oppose pedestrianisation of the shopping street by responding to a consultation saying they do not support the plans. The collection of associations in Fitzrovia, Marylebone, [...]

Fitzrovia Bicycles swallowed by the ever-expanding Velorution

9:45 am, Monday, 15 May 2017

There’s been a cycle repair shop on the corner of New Cavendish Street and Hanson Street for as long as I’ve lived in Fitzrovia. Now it is boarded up and the staff of Fitzrovia Bicycles have made a deal to carry on trading as part of Velorution in nearby Great [...]

Eric Coates: the popular composer who proved his critics wrong

7:23 am, Friday, 12 May 2017

Born in Nottinghamshire in 1886, Eric Coates had been scribbling down melodies since he was six years old. By the time he was 19, his dearest wish was to go and study at The Royal Academy of Music in London. But his father, a country doctor, was determined that his fifth [...]

Verses from Dylan Thomas’s previously unseen fifth notebook revealed

1:46 pm, Thursday, 11 May 2017

The Wheatsheaf. The second home of Maclaren-Ross and the current home of The Sohemians

The Wheatsheaf pub in Rathbone Place will be the venue this weekend for the launch of a book containing previously unpublished verses by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Literature professor John Goodby’s new critical and scholarly guide contains the very first appearance of [...]

Announcement: Diana Simmonds

4:00 pm, Wednesday, 10 May 2017

The family of DIANA SIMMONDS who sadly passed away on 30th April 2017 would like to invite all who knew her to a celebration service. When: 20th May 2017; Where: Holy Cross Church, Cromer Street, King’s Cross, London WC1H 8JU; Time: 12 [...]

True romance of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears revealed in new play

8:46 pm, Monday, 8 May 2017

The private life of composer Benjamin Britten and tenor Peter Pears will be played out in public and on stage this June ahead of the anniversary of the repeal of the law that criminalised sex between men. Tell Me The Truth About Love, written by historian and playwright [...]

Morris dancers to face up to each other in the streets of Fitzrovia

7:28 pm, Monday, 8 May 2017

Troupes of rival of morris dancers will be visiting Fitzrovia to entertain the hordes outside some of the neighbourhood’s overflowing pubs this week. Westminster Morris Men will be squaring up to the Blackheath Morris Men and Greensleeves Morris Men for a [...]

So that’s what was going on next door…

4:44 pm, Thursday, 27 April 2017

I wondered where the bass and drum thump through the walls was coming from and why there were so many expensive cars plonked on the single yellow lines outside. Someone’s having a party? But little did I know about what was really going down in a conservation area. [...]

Westminster council to hold two part consultation on Oxford Street plans

11:15 am, Friday, 21 April 2017

Westminster City Council will carry out the first of two separate public consultations starting next week (Monday 24 April) before deciding on how to implement the Mayor of London’s vision for Oxford Street. “The consultation will start on 24 April, ahead of a [...]

Driver crashes lorry into lamp post on Goodge Street

7:10 pm, Wednesday, 12 April 2017

A sign directing people to Goodge Street tube station was left pointing skyward today after a truck collided with a lamp post at a busy junction in Fitzrovia. An eyewitness told Fitzrovia News that the driver had hit the lamp post while turning the corner from Goodge [...]

Plans would ‘destroy key features’ of Georgian building and former home of artist and designer

1:09 pm, Thursday, 6 April 2017

Camden Council’s planning committee will tonight decide whether to grant permission to allow the former family home of artist and designer couple Adrian and Corinne Heath to be converted into flats. Adrian Heath (1920-1992) was a major figure in the development of [...]

Fitzrovia community group heaps scorn on Westminster Council’s plans for taller and bulkier buildings

10:41 pm, Monday, 3 April 2017

Map of the City of Westminster showing policy areas.

A Fitzrovia community group has added its voice to criticism of Westminster Council’s proposals to increase the number of tall and denser buildings allowed to accommodate economic and population growth. The Council before it revises its City Plan wants to hear the [...]

Comments invited on draft of Fitzrovia West Neighbourhood Plan

8:50 am, Saturday, 18 March 2017

A draft neighbourhood plan for Fitzrovia West has been published and people living and working in the area are invited to comment on and help improve the document before the final version is produced later this year. The Fitzrovia West Neighbourhood Forum — known as [...]

Growing wild strawberries for good health

7:35 am, Tuesday, 7 March 2017

Most of us who live in Fitzrovia will be aware of government advice to eat five portions of fruit and veg every day. But round here you can count on the fingers of one hand the shops that sell fresh produce. Freshly picked fruit and veg contains more nutrients than stuff [...]

Workhouse plans fail to deliver on housing, heritage and open space

2:20 pm, Friday, 3 March 2017

Proposals by a hospital charity to redevelop the site of the former Strand Union Workhouse on Cleveland Street have been met with over 150 letters of objection sent to Camden Council which is due to make a decision on the plans later this year. The site was last used as [...]

Neighbourhood groups say no to Oxford Street ‘transformation’ plans

10:52 am, Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Community groups from the four districts surrounding Oxford Street are calling on residents to oppose pedestrianisation of the shopping street by responding to [...]
Only 17 people sleep rough in the whole of the borough says Camden Council

12:41 pm, Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Camden Council has told the Department for Communities and Local Government that there were only 17 rough sleepers on a “typical night” across the entire London [...]
Kids at Fitzrovia school excel in ‘ridiculously high level’ test

10:18 am, Friday, 16 December 2016

Children at a Fitzrovia primary school are among the country’s best young achievers according to government statistics published this week. All Souls Church of England [...]
Walking football is about pure enjoyment of the beautiful game

7:06 am, Saturday, 10 December 2016

A Fitzrovia man is looking for people to play “walking football” at a local sports pitch and is hoping to get enough players together for games that are more [...]
Casualties and new openings on the Fitzrovia art scene: galleries update, December 2016

7:13 am, Friday, 9 December 2016

The Fitzrovia art scene continues to flourish, with around 47 commercial galleries now thriving in our manor (see below for full list). The rate of growth is not as dynamic [...]