Category Archives: Local issues

2b York Way – Planning Application P100224: Illuminated Signage, Take-Away, Late Night Trading

Folks the following request for support was just received from one of our neighbours in Regent's Quarter Sean M.  This is a long-standing problem which we have written about previously and it again requires community action if we are going … Continue reading

Posted in Planning, Licensing and Regulation | 7 Comments

Filthy streets – Randell’s Road, Rufford Street, Vibart walk

Neighbour Stuart has been having a crazy exchange over a couple of weeks with Contact Islington trying to get Rufford Street swept properly (I own a flat there).  It looks like it's finally had a sweep but neighbouring street such … Continue reading

Posted in Broken Stuff on the Street, Street Tipping, Mess, Trash | Leave a comment

Copenhagen Street to be closed for two weeks at York Way – let’s keep the zebra

  Contracters BAM working on the Kings Cross railway lands are to close Copenhagen Street at York Way for about two weeks from 8 September (date corrected).  They are building a junction with the new road running across the railway … Continue reading

Posted in Broken Stuff on the Street, Kings Cross N1C, railwayslands | 1 Comment

Another one bites the dust on the KX gyratory

Just 20 minutes ago witnesses on the scene standing at the very end of York Way facing this collision in the middle of the orange box between Gray's Inn Rd, York Way and Pentonville Road, including a long-time resident from … Continue reading

Posted in Bad Gyrations KX Campaign, Planning, Licensing and Regulation, Road Safety in Kings Cross, Transport, Travel | 9 Comments

Caledonian Ward Safer Neighbourhood Team in Action

Cannabis with a street value of around £15,000 was seized during a drugs raid by Caledonian Safer Neighbourhoods Team on Friday, 20 August 2010. The address in Caledonian Road, N1, was searched under the Misuse of Drugs Act by Caledonian … Continue reading

Posted in Anti Social Behaviour, Crime etc | Leave a comment

Street issues in Kings Cross and Islington

Neighbour Stuart Cottis reports yet more street sweeping problems in Rufford Street.  Fly tipping around the bins, a need for street sweeping after a car break in and missed recycling collections (archive photo).  It was problems in Rufford Street that … Continue reading

Posted in Broken Stuff on the Street, Democracy and Elections | 1 Comment

King’s Cross Station – community campaign whitewashed out by DfT and Network Rail

Phillip Hammond, the new Secretary of State for Transport was whisked to Kings Cross in his first few days in the job to ‘open’ the new Platform Zero on 20 May.  Platform Zero and the Eastern Range offices have become … Continue reading

Posted in #googlebridgeKX, Kings Cross Station Refurbishment | 3 Comments

Islington crime clean up rates

It's always hard to work out what is going on with crime locally.  This data from the Mayors London Data Store shows the crime clean up rates for Islington.  I haven't had a chance to do much analyis nor to … Continue reading

Posted in Anti Social Behaviour, Crime etc, Democracy and Elections | 2 Comments