FN newsletter 24-12-2021: the latest news and public consultations
Please be aware of the new rules in response to the Covid-19 Omicron variant. You must wear a face covering in shops and most indoor public places and on public transport. You can find local information about getting a vaccine and other information on Camden Council’s coronavirus web page and Westminster Council’s coronavirus web page.
There will be no changes to recycling and rubbish collection days over the Christmas and New Year period. Check rubbish and recycling for Camden and Westminster.
Our small black and white newspaper is out. This includes a digest of the news and community information over the last three months. It is available from outside Fitzrovia Community Centre, 2 Foley Street. We have a nearly complete online archive of community news going back to 1973. If you want to contribute to Fitzrovia News please get in touch with us by email at news@fitzrovianews.com
Have a safe and enjoyable festive season – from all of us at Fitzrovia News.
– Linus Rees, editor
The latest news, features and comment
Camden rejects plan to reduce social housing on Middlesex Annex and former workhouse site
Councillors have voted unanimously to reject a planning application to reduce the number of social homes on the Middlesex Hospital Annex and former Strand Union Workhouse site in Cleveland Street.
A flowering of talent: Eileen Agar, Gluck, and Constance Spry
Nowadays I don’t go to nearly as many exhibitions as I did in pre-Covid times. So over the summer I was delighted to encounter three artists I knew very little about.
Planning, licensing, and public consultations
Planning applications in Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia, December 2021
Camden Council has registered 20 planning applications so far during December 2021 in Bloomsbury ward (this list will be updated at the beginning of next month).
Planning applications in Fitzrovia West, December 2021
Westminster Council has validated six planning applications in Fitzrovia West so far during December 2021 (this list will be updated at the beginning of next month).
Licensing application: Lantana, 80 Charlotte Street
Lantana Catering Services Ltd has applied to Camden Council for a new premises licence for 80 Charlotte Street.
Licensing application: Nineteen-O-Five, 40 Mortimer Street
1821 Investments Ltd has applied to Westminster Council for a premises licence at the basement and ground floor of 40 Mortimer Street, which is on the corner with Great Titchfield Street.
Camden Site Allocations consultation
Camden Council is seeking the views of residents and community groups on its Site Allocations Plan, a document that identifies possible development sites within the borough and their possible uses.
News from elsewhere
Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel - The New York Times
Want to understand London’s economic transformation? Take a look at the condo conversion of a workhouse near where a young Charles Dickens lived.
More than 600 people were diagnosed with Covid in Camden on Tuesday alone
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