FN Newsletter 04-08-2023

Celebrating 50 years...

This summer we are marking a half-century of local goings-on with a new publication. Fitzrovia News: Celebrating 50 Years — a 60 page book — is available from outside Fitzrovia Community Centre in Foley Street and you can read it online. A big thanks to my colleagues Nick Bailey and Sue Blundell for trawling through the hefty archive to select the stories, to Westminster City Council for paying for it, and to Drew de Soto of Navig8 for producing it.

Fitzrovia News editors, contributors, and readers will be meeting between 1.15pm and 2pm at the King and Queen pub on the corner of Foley Street and Cleveland Street, during the Fitzrovia Fete 2023 on Sunday 13 August. Please join us. At the Fete there will be a special appearance by Pollock’s Toy Museum.

Benches are being removed from Whitfield Street outside Crabtree Fields and — rather alarmingly — Camden Council are considering a redesign of the park.

If you are still short of ideas for your children this summer our list of sources of activities might help.

Covid-19 remains a major threat, and long Covid is 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.

London is in danger of a measles outbreak the UK Health Security Agency has warned due to low vaccination rates. The NHS has details about how to stay safe.

Our next email newsletter and a printed news-sheet will be out in early September. 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

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The latest on our website

Fitzrovia News: Celebrating 50 Years

Fitzrovia has had its own community newspaper for 50 years. That has to be a cause for celebration. So now we have published a book reflecting on the past five decades of local news.

Art, dance, music and play at summer fete in Foley Street

Local people of all ages can look forward to an afternoon of art, dance, music and play at Fitzrovia Fete 2023 in Foley Street on Sunday 13 August.

Seating to be temporarily removed from outside public park

Two benches sited outside Crabtree Fields park in Whitfield Street will be removed this week after Camden Council received complaints about incidents of anti social behaviour at the public open space.

Camden Council is failing to address fire risks says housing regulator

Council tenants are being put “at potential risk of harm” because Camden Council is failing to put right thousands of fire safety issues, writes Julia Gregory Local Democracy Reporter.

Public consultations

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: Notes Coffee, 101-106 Tottenham Court Road

Notes : Music & Coffee Ltd has applied to Camden Council for a new premises licence at Unit 5, The Qube, 101-106 Tottenham Court Road.

Licensing application: Bar 80, 80 Charlotte Street

Derwent London Member Services Ltd has applied to Camden Council for a new premises licence at Bar 80, 80 Charlotte Street.

Licensing application: Rudy’s Pizza, 53-54 Tottenham Court Road

Rudy’s Pizza Limited has applied to Camden Council for a new premises licence on the ground floor at 53-54 Tottenham Court Road.

Planning applications in Fitzrovia East, July 2023

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

Planning applications in Fitzrovia West, July 2023

Westminster Council validated planning applications during July 2023 in Fitzrovia West.

Westminster Council seeks views on the future of Regent Street

Westminster Council is seeking comments on the future of the public realm along Regent Street in a new consultation launched this month.

Westminster Council seeks comments on ‘Oxford Street Programme’

Westminster Council is asking for comments on its proposals to “improve” Oxford Street and some of the streets in the surrounding area in a new public consultation that has been launched today.

Printed newspapers

Our next printed newspaper will be available in early September from outside Fitzrovia Community Centre, 2 Foley Street, along with the weekly Camden New Journal and the Westminster Extra. See the newspaper archive for back issues of Fitzrovia News.

News from elsewhere

Police appeal after Charlotte Street man convicted of raping woman at photography studio

A photographer who targeted aspiring models has been jailed for raping a woman at his studio after plying her with drink at a bar, reports MyLondon.

Soldiers attacked man outside Rathbone Place nightclub and assaulted a woman who tried to help him

Two intoxicated soldiers from the Scots Guards unit left a man with a broken jaw in an attack outside of a central London nightclub, a court heard, reports Mail Online.