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Category Archives: Local issues
Please can i have my bollards back…….
Not content with putting huge blue containers in really stupid places, United House have also been vanadalising street furniture. The spot where they first put the containers, next to Bingfield Park, off Pembroke Street used to be a prime dumping … Continue reading
Container cock up
Somtimes you can’t win – working with Councillors the containers that were causing a safety hazard on Bingfield Park were moved. United House and the Council officials were charged with finding a better location for them. But we had not … Continue reading
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Gerda gate a goner – Crumbles Castle
In the summer the Council and HfI introduced some basic security in the Outram Estate area to keep vehicles out. A lot of crime was happening due to uncontrolled access by people with cars to secluded areas where they would … Continue reading
Posted in Broken Stuff on the Street
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CCTV comes to the Cally
The Islington Gazette reports that we shall get a new CCTV camera on the Caledonian Road at the junction with Bridgeman Road (approximate map here). Hopefully this will tackle the street drinking and low level ASB that occurs there. Or … Continue reading
Tipping, Bingfield Street
A bed divan and some trash have been tipped alongside the works to install new street lights on Bingfield Street at the junction with Caledonian Road. WIll report by email as an experiment to see if Contact Islington have got … Continue reading
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phone box broken, 170 caledonian road
reported it to BT – can’t make calls and one window smashed
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2 AM pub opening ? Cross Kings Pub 126 York Way – the old Backpacker
As Kings Cross gets on its feet it is important to retain a balance between residential and leisure use. Uncontrolled leisure use causes external costs that are born by the community – such as noise and litter. If lanlords of … Continue reading
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George King graffiti artist, 1984-2006
I reported here on the tragic death of a graffiti artist George King at Cally and Barnsbury rail station. I was surprised when one of the dead man’s friends got in touch through the site and touchingly his now widowed … Continue reading
Kings Cross Environment 