FN Newsletter 19-12-2024

Mid-December 2024 round up of news, features and comment

Thanks again to all those who have made a voluntary payment to support The Fitzrovia News. This is the last newsletter of 2024. We’ll be back in early January 2025.

Look after your health over the festive fortnight: Covid cases have flatlined over the past four weeks but the virus is still circulating and cases of flu are putting people in hospital at an alarming rate. Wear a face mask if you are indoors in public spaces, and get vaccinated.

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 The Fitzrovia News please email us at news@fitzrovianews.com

Have a great Christmas and New Year.

— Linus Rees, editor

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News

Camden committee lends unanimous support to ‘Save the Central YMCA’ campaign

Councillors on Camden’s Culture and Environment Scrutiny Committee have given their full and unanimous support to the campaign to save the Central YMCA Club from closure.

Features

Middlesex threads: 140 years of nurses’ uniforms, at The Fitzrovia Chapel

Sue Blundell joins a guided tour of “In Uniform: Stories of Nurses and their Clothing”, at The Fitzrovia Chapel.

Exhibition: ‘Mondo Clivo’, by Clive Jennings, at the Colony Room Green

An exhibition of artworks by Fitzrovia News contributor and arts editor Clive Jennings is on show at the Colony Room Green in Heddon Street, Mayfair, this winter.

Public consultations

Licensing application: The Newman Hotel, 49-57 Newman Street

Kinsfolk and Company (Hospitality) Limited has applied to Westminster Council for a new premises licence at The Newman Hotel, 49-57 Newman Street in Fitzrovia West.

Licensing application: Toto’s Delicatessen, 90 Cleveland Street

Elisabeth Hermida Alves has applied to Camden Council for a new premises licence at Toto’s Delicatessen, 90 Cleveland Street in Fitzrovia.

Licensing application: Atto, 88a Cleveland Street

Xground Holdings Limited has applied to Camden Council for a new premises licence at Atto, 88a Cleveland Street, in Fitzrovia.

Planning applications in Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia East, December 2024

Camden Council has registered a flurry of planning applications in Bloomsbury ward, which includes Fitzrovia East, since the beginning of December. There is also an appeal lodged.

Planning applications in Fitzrovia West, December 2024

Westminster Council has validated a number of planning applications so far during December 2024 in Fitzrovia West.

Local democracy reports

Camden announces ‘major retrofit’ for 3,000 council homes

Camden Council is to invest millions into a “major retrofit” of 3,000 of its social homes in a bid to boost energy-efficiency and “save tenants money”.

Divesting pension fund from companies linked to Israel and occupied Palestinian territories is ‘not possible’, states council report

A report for a Westminster Council committee says divesting the council’s pension fund from companies linked to Israel and the occupation of Palestinian territories is “not possible” with its current fund manager.

Printed newspapers

Our next printed news-sheet will be out in March and available from outside Fitzrovia Community Centre, 2 Foley Street. See the newspaper archive for back issues of The Fitzrovia News. We aim to produce a two-page, printed issue at least four times a year. Local weeklies the Camden New Journal and the Westminster Extra are also available outside the Community Centre and they also have an archive where you can view the full printed Camden and Westminster printed editions.