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When you follow a search for Kings Cross on twitter you get all sorts of things – party people in Kings Cross Sydney Australia, people heading for Water Rats, trying to find Kings Place, arranging to meet at Nandos, berating … Continue reading →
Posted by william perrin • 2 days ago • View comments
Under the Localism Act, a neighbourhood such as the King’s Cross area can have a neighbourhood forum that creates a neighbourhood development plan (and neighbourhood development orders) for approval by the local authorities and an independent inspector. [...]
Posted by william perrin • 4 days ago • View comments
TfL has launched a panicky review of major junctions across London in response to overwhelming pressure from cyclists, local politicians and media outlets. As part of this review, TfL has admitted that some junctions are ‘challenging’ for cyclis [...]
Posted by william perrin • 5 days ago • View comments
My favourite convenience food chain Leon is to open in the new Kings Cross station glass blister next month, 18 March according to the FT. Leon has gone into partnership with HMSHost to extend the Leon footprint as a franchise. Let’s … Con [...]
Posted by william perrin • 5 days ago • View comments
Friends of Regent’s Canal Public Meeting Find out what is happening on your canal and how you can get involved. If you are interested in meeting local residents and organisations that are involved in promoting and protecting the canal, or … Continue r [...]
Posted by william perrin • 5 days ago • View comments
"My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable." Charles Dickens, born 7 February 1812.
Posted by Kevin Harris • 6 days ago • View comments
Neighbourhood care groups and organisations provide an astonishing social resource which seldom penetrates the policy-media consciousness. Some I know a little about, such as Brighton and Hove Neighbourhood Care Scheme, and Tower Hamlets Friends and Neigh [...]
Posted by Kevin Harris • 6 days ago • View comments
As part of our public service commitment I have dug out the debate in the Greater London Assembly on cycling safety on November 9th 2011 so that we can see what politicians of all parties said before a major media … Continue reading →
Posted by william perrin • 9 days ago • View comments
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, ‘social exclusion’ was, rightly in my view, a major political issue in the UK and the theme under which a good deal of positive social change came about. But I sense that the concept is being replaced in our vocabula [...]
Posted by Kevin Harris • 10 days ago • View comments
Caroline Pidgeon AM (Lib Dem) Chair of the Transport Committee has been asking some probing questions of the Mayor and TfL about the deadly junctions in Kings Cross following work by this website when I went out with a surveyors tape … Continue re [...]
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