FN newsletter 20-09-2022: news, features, comment, and consultations
Readers and contributors
Covid is still of concern. Children are back at school, and students will be arriving for university over the next week or so. 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.
Max Neufeld of the Charlotte Street Association will give a talk next week on how Fitzrovia has changed over the past 60 years.
If any Fitzrovia workers or residents are interested in singing, the Mayfair Community Choir meets at 6.30 pm every Tuesday in the Grosvenor Chapel Community Rooms in South Audley Street. No auditions, no fees. Enquiries and new singers welcome. Email: mayfaircommunitychoir@gmail.com
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-- Linus Rees, editor
News, features and comment
How Fitzrovia changed over the past sixty years — fitzrovianews.com
Veteran community activist Max Neufeld will present a lecture at Holborn Library this month giving his personal insight into the development of modern day Fitzrovia.
The Museum Telephone Exchange at North Crescent deserves protecting — fitzrovianews.com
The Museum Telephone Exchange building at North Crescent opened in 1914.
History notes: Artists for Democracy at 143 Whitfield Street — fitzrovianews.com
An artistic-political group called Artists for Democracy had a gallery in a squatted building at 143 Whitfield Street from January 1975 to August 1977.
History notes: Walter Sickert in Fitzroy Street — fitzrovianews.com
September’s issue of Camden History Society’s newsletter has some interesting articles, and news of events coming up.
Planning, licensing, and public consultations
Licensing application: Elysee Restaurant, 13 Percy Street — fitzrovianews.com
The Metropolitan Police have asked Camden Council to review the licence of Gales Restaurant Ltd (trading as the Elysee Restaurant) 13 Percy Street, Fitzrovia following “a serious incident of crime and disorder at the premises”.
Licensing application: Bloomsbury Campus Shop, UCL South Wing Building Gower Street — fitzrovianews.com
UCL Students Union has applied to Camden Council for a new premises licence for the Bloomsbury Campus Convenience Shop, Room B8, UCL South Wing Building, Gower Street, WC1.
Planning applications in Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia East, September 2022 — fitzrovianews.com
Camden Council has registered 25 planning applications so far during September in Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia East.
Planning applications in Fitzrovia West, September 2022 — fitzrovianews.com
Westminster Council has registered nine planning applications in Fitzrovia West so far during September 2022.
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. The latest printed A4 sheet is available outside 2 Foley Street.