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FN Newsletter 04-07-2023

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FN Newsletter 04-07-2023

BID ballot delayed, wine shop and bar approved, Crabtree Fields questions, lots of licensing applications...

Jul 4, 2023
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View of empty children's playground.
The Boston and English Ivy looks lovely at Crabtree Fields. But where is the children’s play equipment?

In the last newsletter I reported that the largest businesses in Fitzrovia West will be voting this summer on whether to create a business improvement district. However, it turned out the information we had — taken from their website — was incorrect. It soon came to light that The Fitzrovia Partnership had abandoned its plans weeks earlier but kept it quiet, apart from telling Westminster Council and the businesses who would be voting. I contacted them by email and by telephone several times before I managed to extract up-to-date information from them. They offered me some lame excuse about why they had chosen to postpone the ballot until the autumn. They didn’t even update their own website to reflect the latest ballot timetable until well after I had published a follow up article. Make of that what you will…

Westminster Council has delayed its public consultation on its revised Oxford Street Programme until 17 July.

The Soho Society publish a regular email newsletter. The June edition has some interesting news and comment. Elsewhere is this very thoughtful article by Joel Taylor about a changing Soho.

Be aware that Covid remains a public health concern, and Post-covid-19 condition (long Covid) remains a global public health crisis. Please follow NHS advice to avoid catching and spreading the virus. Vaccination information is on Camden’s website and Westminster’s website.

Our next printed newspaper will be available from outside Fitzrovia community Centre, 2 Foley Street, in September.

We’re still taking a bit of a break over the summer. Our next email newsletter will be in early August. 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

Enjoy the summer!

— Linus Rees, editor


The latest on our website

West Fitzrovia BID ballot put on hold until autumn

A business services group in Fitzrovia has done a hasty about-turn on holding a ballot to create a business improvement district (BID) in Fitzrovia West, mere weeks after being given the go-ahead by Westminster Council.

Camden approves wine shop, tasting school and bar on Warren Street

A new wine merchant, tasting school and wine bar can open in a former bakers’ shop in an eighteenth century residential building in Warren Street, despite concerns it could disturb families in social housing nearby, writes Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter.

Why is the children’s playground at Crabtree Fields still closed? I’ll tell you why…

I had an email today from a representative of a number of parents and carers of children who are concerned about why Crabtree Fields public open space on the corner of Colville Place and Whitfield Street has not had a replacement playground built. And why is the park so filthy?

Public consultations

Westminster Council is doubling the number of secure cycle parking spaces for residents in Fitzrovia West

A Cyclehoop secure cycle parking hanger in street.

Residents in Fitzrovia West are being offered secure on-street cycle parking by Westminster Council, in the latest roll out of the scheme to enable residents to cycle more.

Licensing application: Halifax Bank, 118-132 New Oxford Street

Halifax Bank has applied to Camden Council for a new premises licence for its branch at 118-132 New Oxford Street, on the corner of Tottenham Court Road.

Licensing application: Hugs and Bites, 23 Warren Street

Anka Kitchen Ltd has applied to Camden Council for a new premises licence for Hugs and Bites at 23 Warren Street on the corner with Richardson Mews in Fitzrovia.

Licensing application: Plain Jane, 34 Bloomsbury Street

Plain Jane Limited has applied to Camden Council for a new premises licence at 34 Bloomsbury Street.

Licensing application: 1905 Cellar, 42 Mortimer Street

1905 Assets Limited has applied to Westminster Council for a new premises licence at 1905 Cellar, 42 Mortimer Street, on the corner with Great Titchfield Street in Fitzrovia West.

Licensing application: 7 Percy Street

Seven Percy Street Ltd has applied to Camden Council for a new premises licence at 7 Percy Street, Fitzrovia.

Planning applications in Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia East, June 2023

Camden Council registered 54 planning applications in Bloomsbury ward, which includes Fitzrovia East, during June 2023.

Planning applications in Fitzrovia West, June 2023

Westminster Council validated 22 planning applications during June 2023 in Fitzrovia West.

Printed newspapers

Our printed newspaper is available from outside Fitzrovia Community Centre, 2 Foley Street, along with the weekly Camden New Journal and the Westminster Extra, in early June. The following printed edition of Fitzrovia News will be published in September, and subsequent issues every three months, with the occasional special issues. See the newspaper archive for back issues.

News from elsewhere

Soho's early nights: Locals are not to blame for area's doldrums

According to a recent piece in City AM, Soho is ‘dying on its feet’. And chief among its problems are its local residents.

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