Environment
planning, licensing, parks, playgrounds, housing, transport, traffic, cycling, walking, architecture, conservation, heritage
Better Oxford Street, the campaign formed by the amenity societies in Fitzrovia, Marylebone, Mayfair and Soho (and backed by Fitzrovia News) is asking residents and local business to say “no” in the current consultation on plans for the “transformation” of
[...]Camden Council has agreed to quash the planning permission it gave for the redevelopment of a site in Fitzrovia after the decision was challenged in the high court. Camden’s planning committee gave permission in the summer for a roof extension and other alterations to
[...]The extent of former council homes sold under Margaret Thatcher’s Right to Buy policy and which are now owned as buy-to-let has been revealed by research published this week. Inside Housing magazine has published details of the number of former council homes now being
[...]Late night licence applications for three premises in Fitzrovia are currently being consulted upon by Camden Council. Owners of the Reverend JW Simpson in Goodge Street are seeking to vary their existing licence to serve alcohol until 2am on four nights a week. The
[...]Westminster Council carried out a pilot rubbish and recycling collection system in 10 streets in Fitzrovia this autumn and for the second time is asking people’s views on the scheme. The trial was introduced in September in partnership with the Fitzrovia West
[...]Westminster council has announced that it is to delay a consultation on the revision of its major planning policies until the spring of 2018. In an email to community groups, Councillor Daniel Astaire, cabinet member for planning and public realm, explained that due to a
[...]Camden Council is seeking the public’s views on its updated planning guidance documents, which provide detailed information on how the council applies its planning policies. The review of the planning guidance aims to support the delivery of the recently adopted Local
[...]Plans for a new hotel in Fitzrovia will be unveiled at a public exhibition at the site on Newman Street next week. Travel and leisure group Leeu Collection will shortly be submitting a planning application to Westminster City Council to redevelop 50-57 Newman Street. The
[...]A Warren Street charity has applied to Camden Council to create a youth club underneath a block of flats at Whitfield Place in Fitzrovia. The plans have been submitted by Fitzrovia Youth in Action who want to build an activity space for young people aged between 14 and 19
[...]Mayor Sadiq Khan this week revealed more details on his proposal to pedestrianise London’s Oxford Street and confirmed exactly what residents in surrounding districts feared — all vehicles will be simply diverted into neighbouring streets but with a reduction in
[...]A building containing the former family home of artist and designer couple Adrian and Corinne Heath and the studio of modernist artist Birgit Skiöld has been listed as a heritage asset because of its architectural and cultural value. Historic England has given Grade II
[...]Westminster council is keen to get Fitzrovia West residents’ views on its recycling and rubbish collection pilot scheme which is coming to a close this month. The pilot scheme was introduced in ten streets from September in partnership with the Fitzrovia West
[...]People living in the neighbourhoods near Oxford Street have come out strongly against plans to pedestrianise the shopping street because of concerns about displacing motor vehicles into surrounding areas, according to the results of a consultation carried out by Transport
[...]The Fitzrovia West Neighbourhood Forum is urging Westminster council to reject plans by property developer Derwent London to part demolish and redevelop a cluster of commercial buildings on a corner site in the Hanway Street conservation area. Plans by Derwent are for the
[...]The Times newspaper says that “Drivers of petrol and diesel cars will face higher charges to use private car parks under a plan to tackle pollution”. The article by transport correspondent Graeme Paton goes on to say that car park operator CitiPark will
[...]Recording of the levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in Fitzrovia’s streets will start in August as part of a borough-wide project funded by Camden council. Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association will be run the project for six months recording NO2 levels at four sites in
[...]Residents expressed their gratitude to firefighters who raced to a street in Fitzrovia this morning to put out a fire which engulfed a home in a mansion block. Crews of the London Fire Brigade from Euston, Paddington and Soho stations had to smash through locked doors to
[...]Over a year of sometimes noisy night-time maintenance work will start this week to overhaul all four passenger lifts at Goodge Street underground station. Overnight “enabling work” will start on Monday 10 July before the main project starts. This work will
[...]A prominent historian has criticised plans to demolish buildings on the site of the former Strand Union Workhouse in Cleveland Street, ahead of a decision this week by Camden council on the future of the site. Writing on Spitalifields Life Dr Ruth Richardson argues that the
[...]Work to demolish yet another building in Charlotte Street will begin in July adding to the already crowded collection of construction projects that are in progress, and creating yet more disturbance, pollution and misery for local residents and businesses. Collaboration
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