FN newsletter 03-11-2022: news, features, comment, and consultations
Readers and contributors
Covid infections continue to be a concern in London. Please follow NHS advice to avoid catching and spreading coronavirus. Information and how to get vaccinated is on Camden Council’s coronavirus web page and Westminster Council’s coronavirus web page.
Many people have expressed sadness about the sudden but peaceful death of Sreto Borojevic. At a gathering of his friends last week he was remembered as kind, gentle, caring, hugely respected and well-loved by many people. He was also a close friend of mine. Sreto was just 56 years' old. His funeral will be held in Croatia. I'm currently writing his obituary to be published later this year.
If you have an interest in astrology and Fitzrovia's bohemian past you may enjoy a new book about Betty May. We have one copy to give away to anyone who lives in Fitzrovia. Just email us at news@fitzrovianews.com with your name and address and we'll send it to the first person who writes to us before 6pm Friday 4 November.
If you want to get in touch with us to tell us what you think of our reporting, have a question, or would like to contribute to Fitzrovia News please email us at news@fitzrovianews.com
-- Linus Rees, editor
News, features and comment
In memoriam: Sreto Borojevic (1966-2022) — fitzrovianews.com
It is with great sadness that we report that Sreto Borojevic died suddenly and peacefully at home on the evening of Saturday 22 October 2022.
Camden Council and UCLH Charity face planning inspector in disagreement over social housing — fitzrovianews.com
Camden Council and UCLH Charity faced a government planning inspector in another chapter of a long-running dispute over social housing on a former hospital site.
Quorn Foods apologises for noise nuisance at promo event — fitzrovianews.com
A vegan and vegetarian food producer has issued an apology to local residents and businesses in Tottenham Street and Whitfield Street in Fitzrovia after a promotional event for their products caused “a great deal of noise nuisance”.
Charlotte Street ‘streatery’ extended for a further 18 months — fitzrovianews.com
Camden Council has taken a decision to extend the temporary outside eating and drinking spaces, known as “streateries”, in Charlotte Street for another 18 months.
The bohemian and mystic life of Betty May — fitzrovianews.com
Betty May was a British singer, dancer, and model who was a well known character to patrons of the Fitzroy Tavern and the cluster of pubs around Charlotte Street during the neighbourhood’s bohemian heyday in the 1920s and 1930s.
Planning, licensing, and public consultations
Planning applications in Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia East, October 2022 — fitzrovianews.com
Camden Council registered 49 planning applications during October 2022.
Planning applications in Fitzrovia West, October 2022 — fitzrovianews.com
Westminster Council validated 15 planning applications during October 2022.
Licensing application: Cheatmeals, 33 Goodge Street — fitzrovianews.com
Cheatmeals has applied to Camden Council to serve food until 2am at the ground floor and basement of 33 Goodge Street. The business is described as a fast food restaurant selling burgers, fries, and hot dogs for takeaway, and delivery.
Licensing application: Orion’s Belt, 365 Euston Road — fitzrovianews.com
Orion’s Belt Limited has applied to Camden Council to licence a bar and restaurant at Unit 2, 365 Euston Road, which also fronts onto Conway Street and 41 Warren Street.
Licensing application: 1 Marylebone Road — fitzrovianews.com
Hammer Holdings Limited has applied to Westminster council to vary the premises licence at 1 Marylebone Road, in the Fitzrovia West neighbourhood area, to allow later hours and fewer restrictions on the use of an outside area.
Licensing application: Spearmint Rhino, 161 Tottenham Court Road — fitzrovianews.com
Spearmint Rhino Companies (Europe) Ltd has applied to Camden Council to renew its Sexual Entertainment Venue (SEV) Licence at 161 Tottenham Court Road.
Camden wants residents’ views on the evening and night time economy — fitzrovianews.com
Camden Council is developing a strategy for the evening and night time economy (ENTE) and wants to hear from residents in a new public consultation and at engagement events it is running.
Printed newspaper
Fitzrovia Community Newspaper Archive — archive.fitzrovianews.com
Next year will be 50 years since the first edition of Tower -- the forerunner to Fitzrovia News -- was published. We hope to complete our online archive of fifty years of community newspapers by then.
News and features from elsewhere
The Soho Society Newsletter October 2022
This month's newsletter from The Soho Society is worth a read as many of the challenges Soho residents face are common to those of us in Fitzrovia. Particularly noise nuisance.
North London COP Tickets, Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite
The Camden New Journal is organising a special climate summit on Saturday 12 November at Conway Hall in Holborn.
Businessman loses £1m compensation fight over noise in his £2.5m London apartment | Daily Mail Online Nazirali Tejani, 70, bought the plush apartment in upmarket Fitzroy Place - the capital's first new garden square in over a century - off-plan in 2012, shelling out £2.6m for the flat near Oxford Street.