As I’m writing this newsletter it is a Public Holiday. Noisy construction work should not be happening on Thursday, Friday, Saturday afternoon, or on Sunday. Yet as I sit here at my desk I can hear a circular saw, drilling, and a sanding machine from the construction site opposite at 20 Tottenham Street. I politely asked the on-site supervisor for The Thornton Partnership to stop the noisy work. But he refused and said he was going to carry on with the work. I have made a complaint to Camden Council’s noise team and also written to the freeholder of the building, Derwent London. It is not the first time I have complained to this construction company about noise on a public holiday. Unfortunately, noise nuisance from out-of-hours construction work is an all too common experience for residents in Fitzrovia. If you do suffer from this, please do complain to Camden or Westminster council about it.
Carburton Street will be closed today (Friday) for a Jubilee celebration event.
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A film production company has apologised to residents and businesses in Fitzrovia for the disruption caused by filming on Tottenham Street and Whitfield Street.
Camden Council has given the go ahead to make permanent additional contraflow cycling schemes in Fitzrovia streets, but has been unable to deliver a section of the route due to continued breaches of controlled parking.
As many as 16 London bus routes - including bus 24 - could be axed completely as TfL begins a six-week consultation on the future of the capital’s bus services.
The home furnishing store Heal’s plans to takeover the neighbouring shop space vacated by Habitat on Tottenham Court Road after a major refurbishment of the building is complete.
Today, Friday 3 June 2022, is the Platinum Jubilee public holiday. Forty-five years ago it was the year of the Silver Jubilee and the Sex Pistols released their second single, the provocative God Save the Queen.
The Fitzrovia Arts Festival will run from 12 to 25 June 2022 with a programme of classic and jazz music concerts, exhibitions, poetry readings, talks, and walks.
“Most British school children are taught white MP William Wilberforce was the most significant abolition movement campaigner,” says Marc Wadsworth. But outside of parliament Olaudah Equiano (c1745-97) was arguably just as important.
An application has been made by the BBC to Westminster Council to extend the use of public space for live events outside Broadcasting House at Portland Place.
Our latest printed newspaper (a two-page summary of news and information) will be available from Saturday morning outside Fitzrovia Community Centre, 2 Foley Street. We have a nearly complete online archive, dating back to 1973, of Tower, Fitzrovia Neighbourhood News, and Fitzrovia News.
