Author Archives: William Perrin

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About William Perrin

Active in Kings Cross London and South Oxfordshire, founder of Talk About Local, helping people find a voice online and a trustee of The Indigo Trust , Good Things Foundation and ThreeSixtyGiving as well as Connect8.

Does this picture confirm that TfL plans to dump North South cycle superhighway traffic into Euston Road and Kings Cross gyratory at Judd Street?

Now either I missed it the first time or it has quietly appeared but I have just found a graphic on the TFL consultation on the North South cycle superhighway which show that TfL’s intended endpoint for cycles is in fact … Continue reading

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Caledonian Ward Partnership meeting Wednesday 10 September 7pm

If you want to praise, thank, improve or criticise something locally then this is a good meeting at which to do it.  It’s often a big ask to go out to a meeting when you get home tired from work and … Continue reading

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Some colour from the Cally Festival 2014 #callyfest #callyfestival @thecallyfestival

Here’s some highlights of the Cally Festival 2014 from Twitter Balloonfro at #CallyFest http://t.co/3obYIR3oaU pic.twitter.com/sVfLw1uaTa — Tom Travels 💙 (@Tom_Travels) September 7, 2014 The 2014 @TheCallyFest is over. It's been absolutely brilliant. First attendance estimate of 8,500 exceeds all previous … Continue reading

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Cally Festival Sunday 1200 onwards @thecallyfest #callyfest

It’s the Cally Festival this weekend – from Sunday at 1200 until 1800 the middle bit of the Cally South of the Ferodo/Cally Bridge will be full of performers, stalls and thousands of people.  The weather, whisper it, is forecast … Continue reading

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North-South Cycle super highway Elephant to Kings Cross – the death of ‘smoothing traffic flow’?

You could be forgiven for missing that there is also a North-South cycle route being planned to complement the ‘Crossrail for cycles’ that the media was excited about yesterday.  It’s less developed than the E-W proposal and, disappointingly the Kings … Continue reading

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Kings Cross gyratory radical solution – to be relocated East of Dunwich says Mayor

Radical thinking in City Hall to tackle the Kings Cross gyratory has led to proposals to relocate the whole of Kings Cross to a new site East of Dunwich.  The dangerous, over capacity gyratory would be reconstructed in a green … Continue reading

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Awful Kember Street flat – links to the BBC documentary that exposed extent of unlicensed development

It took a BBC documentary to uncover the extent of  irresponsible landlord-ism but, in all the chatter about the Kember Street flat few people seem to have gone back to the original source (which doesn’t Google up well). So here … Continue reading

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Kember Street flat furore – this is hardly the first time

The national (and international) media have been expressing their incredulity about the letting of a clearly awful flat on Kember Street off the Cally Road (behind the Co-Op) for over £700 per month (Guardian, Independent, Huffington Post).  It isn’t clear … Continue reading

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