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Category Archives: Local issues
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
Posted in Planning, Licensing and Regulation
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Horrible crime at Coatbridge House
The pre-Xmas edition of the Gazette reports the grisly trial of Halil Ates for a savage attack in Coatbridge House on the Bemerton Estate. In 2004 Ates beat, imprisoned and tortured a Polish guy to whom he had illegally sublet … Continue reading
Kings Cross access – no movement forecast from Network Rail
Camden planning officials knocked back Network Rail’s plans for refurbishing Kings Cross – in part due to the lack of access from York Way. Network Rail’s revised plans are due in the next day or so. However it seems that … Continue reading
CCTV on the Bemerton Estate
A correspondence with David Renton who lives there has revealed a big argument raging on the Bemerton about whether to have CCTV and how to fund it. The history in complex but basically the residents are being asked to pay … Continue reading
Posted in Anti Social Behaviour, Crime etc
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Pembroke parking problem
The building site at the old Marquis of Salisbury pub at 64 Pembroke Street staggers slowly on. The guys who work there habitually drive their vans over the grass verge to park them behind the bollards on the old stub … Continue reading
Cally Road glory hole continues to attract trash
This niche under the Ferodo Bridge (interesting history of Ferodo bridges here) on the Caledonian Road continues to attract junk and trash. The site is owned by Network Rail and the Council occasionally cleans it out, but it really needs … Continue reading
Posted in Street Tipping, Mess, Trash
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Council remove licence from local shop selling alcohol to teens
The shop attached to the garage on the Cally Road was caught three times selling alcohol to under age kids all witnessed by undercover police. The Council has now taken their alcohol licence away – quite right too. The Gazette … Continue reading
CEMEX more progress
There has been a lot of work going on with CEMEX over the past couple of months to improve their noisy behaviour on Rufford Street. The Council noise officers convened a meeting between the CEMEX plant manager Paul Betts, Joanne … Continue reading
Kings Cross Environment 