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Backdated from previous BA website The BA is returning to its roots in Bloomsbury Village and we are working with all stakeholders in the area towards making the Bloomsbury Village Fete an event to remember over the weekend of 4/5/6 July 2008. This event is part of LFA2008 - the London Festival of Architecture 2008 … Continue reading Bloomsbury Village Fete – and EPICOVID. Friday – Sunday 4/5/6 July 2008

Backdated from previous BA website Congratulations to Cllr Penny Abraham and Cllr Rebecca Hossack who went to the trouble of organising the inaugural meeting of the Bloomsbury Neighbourhood Forum so that the community members that attended could give their views without being led down the garden path of paying lip service to the views of … Continue reading Community Strategy via Bloomsbury Neighbourhood Forum

Backdated from previous BA website On Monday 5th November an extraordinary meeting of Camden Council took place to listen to deputations and answer the Call-In by Labour Members on the Executive's decision to build a new secondary school in Swiss Cottage, rather than south of Euston Road. The Call-In failed! Observing the farce from the … Continue reading The Call-In and Extraordinary General Meeting of Camden Council on BUILDING SCHOOLS for the FUTURE…OR, Are you beginning to get the message that as a Borough Council, Camden is failing in its responsibilities?

Backdated from previous BA website Frank Dobson MP has stated that the deadline on taking the government finance for a new secondary school,in Camden can be extended and he will press Camden to look again at the Eastman Dental Hospital site in Grays Inn Road. This news has re-opened the debate again and we urge … Continue reading Secondary School Campaign NOT dead yet!

Backdated from previous BA website For many months the BA has been receiving disturbing reports concerning what seems like an epidemic of illegal street trading, and concerns about the lack of security measures resulting in unacceptable levels of car crime and drugs crime in some of our car parks. To that end we are commencing … Continue reading Illegal Street Trading & Car Park Security

Backdated from previous BA website The ridiculous notion to name the redevelopment of the Middlesex Hospital site as NoHo Square is laughable. Candy and Candy Design should ask people in the area about its history and what they think the area is known as. It is FITZROVIA - NOT NoHo! Candy and Candy tell us … Continue reading NoHo Candy and Candy – Ridiculous!

Backdated from previous BA website Bloomsbury Traders call for the Renaissance of Bloomsbury Village as a centre of excellence for Arts & Crafts. Current planning regulations that allow unrestricted retail development into this area are damaging existing trade to such an extent that the area is now virtually unrecognisable for offering anything other than tacky … Continue reading Bloomsbury Village Traders seek Urban Renaissance

Backdated from previous BA website Anyone who has any doubts about the positive attributes of community networking need only look to the Bloomsbury Neighbourhood Forum (BNF) as an exemplar of good practice and grass roots democracy at work. After a fairly tricky start and some territorial issues (not always healthy ones), this forum has now … Continue reading Bloomsbury Neighbourhood Forum – An exemplar of community networking

Backdated from previous BA website Bloomsbury is at last beginning to work as a cohesive community again, thanks to all the hard work over recent years by our many active and committed community members, the Bloomsbury Safer Neighbourhoods Panel, SN Police Team and Bloomsbury Neighbourhood Panel. Substantial investment was made by the Bedford Estate, University … Continue reading Bloomsbury Renaissance

Backdated from previous BA website It now seems plainly obvious that Camden Councils so called consultation on where to locate a new secondary school was nothing more than a sham and that the question of building the school in Swiss Cottage was never in doubt. The excuse that there is no property available south of … Continue reading The £200 Million Bluff by Camden Council