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.

Do you care about Barnard Park? – have your say on Saturday 7 June

Posted on June 6, 2008 by William Perrin

Big plans are afoot for Barnard Park (it needs them) – the Council are having two more workshops on Saturday 7 June, to discuss Access and Security and Ecology and Community Involvement. They will be held at the Church on … Continue reading →

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Edward Square displays this Saturday – even the sun might shine!

Posted on June 4, 2008 by William Perrin

Edward Square is a real urban gem in the heart of Kings Cross.  Local volunteers turned a dump into an award winning piece of urban regeneration (you can read the story here). I am a great fan of one of … Continue reading →

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Aggressive and persistant begging in Kings Cross on the increase.

Posted on June 4, 2008 by William Perrin

Residents of the Kings Cross Road based hostels (I mean those that accommodate "hard to ordinarily house Camden based (anti-social) people," the local authority has a "housing obligation" towards) are noticeably more present and aggressively begging in the surrounding streets … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti Social Behaviour, Crime etc | 11 Comments

Artist wanted for railway lands – Arts Council will fund

Posted on June 2, 2008 by William Perrin

Sian at CreateKingsCross has sent another of her very good newsletters (email her here to go on the list).  Some good news out of Argent the developer of the Kings Cross Railway Lands – they are taking on an artist … Continue reading →

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St Pancras now killing local businesses in SE Kings Cross area

Posted on June 2, 2008 by William Perrin

Since London Thameslink Kings Cross has packet it in in favour of the splendours of St Pancras and its multinational stores, the shops along Kings Cross Road have faced a real starvation of income. Amongst the real victims are a … Continue reading →

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Eurostar to Heathrow ? new proposals from Arup

Posted on May 29, 2008 by William Perrin

The engineers Arup have published some odd, but appealing plans for extending the Eurostar to Hethrow and interconnecting with rail services to the West.  This is a welcome addition to the various proposals to extend high speed rail to the … Continue reading →

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Outram up in flames again – but CCTV well positioned to give vital evidence…..

Posted on May 27, 2008 by William Perrin

Oh dear, i was only thinking the other day that it had been ages since someone torched a stolen moped, when i look out ofhte window, see smoke and someone has set a moped on fire.  A moped was put … Continue reading →

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Regents Canal Wildlife Planting and Clean-up

Posted on May 27, 2008 by William Perrin

Regents Canal Clean up May 28th Thames 21volunteers along with Thornhill Bridge Community Gardener members have begun to clean up the area between the western portal of the Islington Tunnel and York Way (Maiden Lane) Bridge.There isn’t much graffiti left … Continue reading →

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