Fitzrovia News

Camden’s planners appear to have given up on this legal agreement

1:49 am, Thursday, 29 June 2017

Next Thursday Camden’s planning officers will try to persuade councillors to approve plans to redevelop a disused hospital building in Fitzrovia, but without the developer honouring a legal agreement to build the full amount of social rented homes on the site. UCLH [...]

All the fun of the fair at All Souls Primary School

12:18 am, Wednesday, 28 June 2017

All Souls Primary School will be holding its annual summer fair this Saturday when the playground will be open to the public and part of Riding House Street will be closed for the event. There will be live music, some great food, and all the usual fête-type stalls, [...]

Human remains ‘should be anticipated’ at former workhouse site

12:14 am, Tuesday, 27 June 2017

Human remains from an historic burial ground at the former workhouse building in Fitzrovia are very likely to still exist and would have to be removed before any redevelopment of the site says a report from Museum of London Archaeology. The report is a desk-based analysis [...]

Diesel parking charges increase in Fitzrovia, Marylebone and Hyde Park zones

11:55 am, Monday, 26 June 2017

A 50 percent surcharge will apply to drivers of pre-2015 diesel vehicles paying to park in Fitzrovia, Marylebone and Hyde Park zones from today (Monday 26 June 2017) as part of Westminster council’s Low Emission Neighbourhood initiative. The hourly charge for pre-2015 [...]

Fitzrovia’s biggest business occupiers revealed in list of BID voters

12:16 am, Thursday, 22 June 2017

A list of around 200 of the largest business occupiers in the Camden part of Fitzrovia has been revealed among documents published by The Fitzrovia Partnership business improvement district as part of its five year plan to intensify commercial activity in the neighbourhood. [...]

Westbrook Partners reveals new plans for former hospital building

1:16 am, Wednesday, 21 June 2017

American private equity firm Westbrook Partners will unveil new plans for the redevelopment of former hospital building Arthur Stanley House at a public exhibition this week. Westbrook say they have “improved redevelopment proposals” for a mixed-use scheme [...]

Science for the public good or a dystopian future where artificial intelligence goes on the rampage?

11:53 am, Tuesday, 20 June 2017

Front of wobbly building on Howland Street.

Ground-breaking research into human thought and a vision of rogue robots and replicants hungry for more life will collide at a major event in Howland Street this week as part of Fitzrovia Festival. Georgina Ferry introduces Neural Architects, her behind-the-scenes account [...]

Fitzrovia charity calls for tough action on air pollution in central London

12:04 am, Tuesday, 20 June 2017

A Fitzrovia charity has called on the Mayor of London to take tougher action to combat air pollution in central London by restricting motor vehicles on high pollution days. The Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association, which campaigns on behalf of the 8,000 residents in the [...]

Festival explores the past, present and future of historic neighbourhood

2:52 pm, Monday, 19 June 2017

Black and white photograph of Charlotte Place in 1970s or early 1980s.

Fitzrovia Festival kicks off tonight with the first of a series of events exploring the past, present and future of the neighbourhood. Festival, which was started in 1973 and promoted the name Fitzrovia, is a week of guided walks, exhibitions and a literary events. It [...]

Most London hospitals are smothered in illegally high levels of air pollution

2:41 pm, Monday, 19 June 2017

More than half of London’s NHS hospitals and health centres are smothered in air pollution that is above legal limits, says a new report published by King’s College London and the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change. The report states that University College Hospital [...]

Jeremy Corbyn appears as St Francis of Assisi

4:43 pm, Wednesday, 7 June 2017

Street artist Loretto has painted an image of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn dressed up as the Italian monk St Francis of Assisi wearing sandals and with a halo of EU stars like a crown of thorns above his head. The stencilled painting which was created this morning in full [...]

Fitzrovia Partnership drops plans for cross-boundary business improvement district

7:15 am, Friday, 2 June 2017

The Fitzrovia Partnership has abandoned plans for a cross-boundary business improvement district (BID) but will instead seek to renew its five-year mandate and expand its estate in the Camden part of Fitzrovia this summer. The business group did explore the feasibility of a [...]

Camden Council’s hedge funds and UK press freedom

10:20 am, Thursday, 1 June 2017

Bloomsbury ward councillor Rishi Madlani may be feeling some heat in between knocking on people’s doors on the election trail. As chair of Camden’s £1.25bn pension fund committee he is all too aware of press reports of a high court injunction blocking Reuters from [...]

200 years of Fitzrovia’s exotic musical history

7:34 am, Wednesday, 31 May 2017

Fitzrovia has a rich history of concerts and a strong connection to many famous composers and performers. Mendelssohn to (Pink Floyd’s Nick) Mason? Coates to Clapton? Britten to Bechet? Pagani’s to the Casa Prada? Henry Wood to Hendrix? All the above lived, performed [...]

Must we kiss goodbye to Rathbone Street’s young lady of the night?

12:45 pm, Tuesday, 30 May 2017

Above the Newman Arms pub in Rathbone Street there is a bricked up window with a picture of a young woman. In the painting she can be seen in a nightdress and little cap which partly covers her long red hair. She peers down onto the street below with her bare arms resting [...]

Summer open day at community centre

7:03 am, Tuesday, 30 May 2017

Fitzrovia Centre in Foley Street will welcome people to the building for a day of workshops and activities as part of FitzFest this June. “Come and celebrate the best of our neighbourhood with acoustic quartet, Yorker, Scale Down Poetry Collective and a session with [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]