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.

Noise pollution, Gifford and Pembroke Streets

The wretched St WIlliam’s Yard development is going through an incredibly noisy phase of construction as the site is cleared and sheet piles are driven along the site boundary to enable the basement car park to be dug out.  The … Continue reading

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Street tipping North Kings Cross

A fridge has been tipped on Rufford Street opposite number 1 behing the blue containers and a mattress on TIlloch Street at the junction with Carnoustie Drive.  WIll report both.  Also Stuart Cottis has reported the missed recycling collection on … Continue reading

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Kings Cross access latest campaigning………

I have raised this with Emily Thornberry MP today – i spoke with her office and wrote to her as attached below.  I am asking her to escalate this issue that will have such an awful impact on the community.  … Continue reading

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Our community against crime…..

Crime has fallen massivley in Kings Cross in the past four years.  But there is still soo much disturbing anti social behaviour. But everyone has differnet priorities – should the police focus on overweight lorries on Copenhagne Street, or kids … Continue reading

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St William’s Yard, Gifford Street and Bingfield Park

Work has now started on the William of York School site on Gifford Street that backs onto Bingfield Park. There is a long and sorry planning history to this huge site  – years ago the old school buildings, locally Listed … Continue reading

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www.kingscrossenvironment.com

The West Area Committee of the Council has given me a small grant from the West Area Community Chest to do a few things to underpin this website  – the first of which is to create a proper web address … Continue reading

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Can you design for a community in new development ?

There is an interesting article here on what makes a community by the urban design team Holistic City.  The piece is an good discussion on how urban designers can build physical infrastructre that helps to make a community happen.  They … Continue reading

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Resolve to get involved…..

People pulling together have helped turn Kings Cross around from a warzone in the mid nineties to one of the most exciting and stimulating places to live in London.  Every bit of the community has worked with each other, the … Continue reading

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