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Iconic street is an important part of Fitzrovia’s character
By News Reporters An “iconic” Fitzrovia street under threat of over-development has been saved after Camden Council refused planning permission for a roof extension. In a decision made last week, the...
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Man charged over Tottenham Court Road incident
By News Reporters Fitzrovia’s streets were back to normal on Saturday with little evidence remaining of Friday’s siege of Shropshire House on Tottenham Court Road. Only a broken window on the fifth...
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UCLH Charity is considering selling all its residential blocks in Fitzrovia
By News Reporters A hospital charity in Fitzrovia might sell all its housing stock after being approached by potential buyers. Tenants in residential blocks in Cleveland Street and New Cavendish Street...
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Ribbon cut and speeches made at official opening of Fitzrovia Community Centre
By News Reporters Sarah Hayward leader of Camden Council yesterday cut the ribbon to officially open the Fitzrovia Community Centre. The event was watched by Dr Cyril Nemeth, deputy mayor City of...
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Thumbs down for erection in pole dancing club
By News Reporters Is a strip club an appropriate place to erect a war memorial to the dead? That is the question posed in the latest newsletter of the Camden History Society. The memorial recording the...
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US-style anti-abortion protests return to Fitzrovia and Bloomsbury
By News Reporters Anti-abortion protests will be met with pro-choice counter protests outside clinics in Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia this week at the start of a campaign by the American group 40 Days for...
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“Carnival of Choice” in Bedford Square meets the return of American-styled...
By News Reporters Prayer vigil versus counter demo returns this week as the American-styled 40 Days for Life group and local pro-choice activists face each other outside the British Pregnancy Advisory...
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40 years of community newspapers in Fitzrovia
We are celebrating the 40th birthday of community news reporting in Fitzrovia by printing extra copies of the newspaper and putting together an archive of every issue since 1973. It was in March 1973...
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Newman Arms aka ‘the proles pub’ bought by Shaftesbury plc
A pub where George Orwell used to drink and is widely assumed to be the setting for the proles pub in his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four has been bought by West End property owners Shaftesbury...
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Planning guidance revision threatens new social housing in south Camden
Community groups have condemned plans by Camden Council which would mean new social housing gained from property development in central London would not be built, but instead be replaced by cash...
View ArticleBrighter days at Cleveland Mansions
By Captain Gripper Life in Cleveland Street is different from the days revisited in the musical about the brothel and the Telegraph Boys. Not quite so exciting. The Cleveland Mansion blocks rarely saw...
View ArticleDog and handler let sleeping residents lie
By Peter Whyatt Residents of Fitzroy Square now employ a security guard and dog to patrol the square in the evenings. Edward Turner, chair of Fitzroy Square Frontagers, told Fitzrovia News that the...
View ArticleLeaf blowers banned by Camden Council and University of London
By Angela Lovely Perhaps one of the most stupid devices ever invented. Leaf blowers were promoted by their manufacturers as an easy way to sweep leaves up. Their noisy electric or petrol engines would...
View ArticleFitzrovia in honours list
By Angela Lovely Two staff from Fitzrovia based engineers Arup were recognised in this year's Queen's birthday honours list. Terry Hill, chairman, Arup Group, was awarded the CBE for services to Civil...
View ArticleFitzrovia News 2011 year in review
By Angela Lovely 2011 was a busy year. Far too busy at times. It seemed to end as it began with stories of those neighbours from hell bent on destroying the historic fabric of our little part of...
View ArticleProtesters block Oxford Circus in demonstration against Welfare Reform Bill
By News Reporters Part of Oxford Circus and Regent Street was completely blocked today (Saturday 28 January) as more than 200 people gathered to protest against the government's Welfare Reform Bill....
View ArticleOpen air art gallery at former Middlesex Hospital site
By News Reporters Art galleries have taken over Fitzrovia so much so that the exhibits are now spilling out onto the streets. And in stark contrast to the bland development which has had the go-ahead,...
View ArticleAn Area Action Plan for Fitzrovia public consultation opens
By News Reporters A consultation opened last week on a draft Area Action Plan (AAP) for Fitzrovia. The plan has been put together by Camden Council with the help of residents and landowners in...
View ArticleCampaign wants mayoral candidates to deliver on cycle and pedestrian safety
By News Reporters The London Cycling Campaign (LCC) spent Tuesday at a road junction in Fitzrovia collecting signatures from cyclists using the east-west cycle route along Howland Street in order to...
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Keep up with the latest news, features, and comment in Fitzrovia during 2021
The first six months of 2021 -- and quite possibly longer -- will be a very difficult time for everyone, and production of a printed newspaper will be challenging. Our last two printed quarterly...
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