Fitzrovia News

Exhibition of Equiano’s life – leading black campaigner for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade

5:34 pm, Tuesday, 6 August 2019

An exhibition celebrating the life of the leading black campaigner for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade will open this month at a venue on Tottenham Court Road. Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) rose to prominence in the late 18th century and his book “The [...]

Camden Council continue to ignore our pleas to only carry out hedge cutting in the autumn and winter to protect wildlife

9:29 am, Friday, 2 August 2019

We’ve asked time and time again for Camden Council to only carry out hedge cutting with machinery during the autumn and winter months to protect wildlife. Yet despite our efforts we continue to be ignored by a council that seems to be hell bent on carrying out work [...]

Fitzrovia’s historic streets will be setting for Edgar Wright’s psychological thriller

11:00 am, Saturday, 27 July 2019

Filming on several streets in Fitzrovia will start this week for a new British movie directed by Edgar Wright, who gained success with Shaun of The Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Baby Driver. The scenes for Last Night in Soho are due to be shot over five days between Monday 29 July [...]

London Fire Brigade issues warnings after blaze at Fitzrovia restaurant

6:58 pm, Monday, 15 July 2019

The London Fire Brigade has issued a warning about the dangers of tumble drying and ignoring alarms after a fire partly gutted a Charlotte Place restaurant. Investigators believe the fire within the basement kitchen of the Lantana restaurant on Charlotte Place in Fitzrovia [...]

Another day of fun ahead at All Souls School annual summer fair

9:12 am, Friday, 5 July 2019

Join in the fun and games this Saturday 6 July for another summer fair at All Souls Primary School. At this year’s event their will be a child-led talent show, a bouncy castle, raffles and tombola’s, games, face painting, music and much more. All Souls Primary [...]

Second pedestrian seriously injured on Tottenham Court Road

1:23 pm, Tuesday, 18 June 2019

Another pedestrian has been seriously injured after a collision with a southbound bus on Tottenham Court Road today. In what appears to be nearly identical circumstances to a collision last Tuesday, a pedestrian and a southbound bus collided near the junction with [...]

Council seeks ideas on how to reduce CO2 emissions in Camden

9:22 am, Monday, 17 June 2019

Camden Council is seeking ideas on how to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the borough ahead of a “citizens assembly” to debate the issue and publication of an “environmental plan” in 2020. Councillor Adam Harrison, cabinet member for a sustainable [...]

Lidl to open its first central London store on Tottenham Court Road

3:10 pm, Wednesday, 12 June 2019

German supermarket chain Lidl has announced it will open its first central London store on Tottenham Court Road next summer. Lidl will takeover and refurbish the Sainsbury’s store near Warren Street tube station, reports the Guardian and other media. It will be a [...]

Bus and pedestrian collide on Tottenham Court Road

8:48 am, Wednesday, 12 June 2019

A pedestrian was seriously injured after a collision with a bus on Tottenham Court Road on the morning of Tuesday 11 June. A man in his 30s and a southbound number 24 bus collided near the junction with Torrington Place. In a statement to MyLondon a spokesperson for the [...]

Cycle to work this week (and every week) in Camden and Westminster

10:40 am, Monday, 10 June 2019

Don’t let the weather put you off cycling to work because Camden and Westminster cyclists have some tips and events to make your journey a pleasure every day. Today (Monday) from 4:30pm to 7:30pm in Kensington Gardens there will be a free Dr Bike Mechanic, [...]

A new history of Fitzrovia shows a rich mixture of workers, migrants, intellectuals and villains

6:35 am, Monday, 10 June 2019

Life on the edge, both geographically and socially, is the theme of this book. Colourful examples come from fake antique dealers, dodgy second hand car salesmen, and a variety of villains. Many honest and underpaid workers in the furniture trade, the clothing industry, show [...]

The life and changing times of the Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Centre

7:09 am, Tuesday, 4 June 2019

The Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Centre, which will be closing in June, was a product of its time and was one of several community advice centres being established across Camden and other inner London boroughs in the 1970s. The opportunity arose as a result of funding provided [...]

The final days of Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Centre

6:02 am, Tuesday, 4 June 2019

Street view of Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Centre.

The Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Centre will close its doors in June for the last time after five decades of delivering a housing and welfare advice service and numerous community projects from the Tottenham Street building. Camden Council, which owns the site and needs to carry [...]

Street artist mocks Trump ahead of UK state visit

11:20 am, Monday, 3 June 2019

A street artist has mocked US President Donald Trump on the eve of his arrival in the UK for a three-day state visit. The artist who goes by the moniker Loretto stencil-painted four satirical images on a boarded-up, disused building on the corner of Great Portland Street [...]

Residents in affordable housing at Rathbone Square complain of poor quality materials and design

6:23 am, Saturday, 1 June 2019

Great Portland Estates may have been awarded “Property Developer of the Year” but people living in “affordable” homes at its Rathbone Square site in Fitzrovia are struggling to live in poorly designed flats and are watching their bathrooms fall apart [...]

Future research, open science, and the power of storytelling

11:41 pm, Tuesday, 28 May 2019

Front of wobbly building on Howland Street.

Scientists sharing research and working with literary and visual storytellers can help spread knowledge to build a better future. That’s the theme of an event taking place in Fitzrovia in June. Social science-fiction writer Stephen Oram has been working alongside [...]

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 [...]

The final days of Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Centre

6:02 am, Tuesday, 4 June 2019

The Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Centre will close its doors in June for the last time after five decades of delivering a housing and welfare advice service and numerous community [...]
Residents in affordable housing at Rathbone Square complain of poor quality materials and design

6:23 am, Saturday, 1 June 2019

Great Portland Estates may have been awarded “Property Developer of the Year” but people living in “affordable” homes at its Rathbone Square site in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Camden Council gets £870k to tackle rough sleeping

11:01 am, Monday, 25 June 2018

Camden Council has secured £870,000 of government funding to assist homeless people in the borough after a count of rough sleepers identified a more accurate picture of its [...]