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Have you every wondered how your street was named? Camden History Society have published a comprehensive list of Camden''s street names and their origins. from Abbey Place (off Little Coram Street) The seat of the Duke of BEDFORD is WOBURN Abbey in Bedfordshire. to Yorkshire Grey Place, NW3 Yorkshire Grey Yar...

Honey & Co., the Middle Eastern restaurant from husband and wife chef duo Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich, has opened at 54 Lamb’s Conduit Street on the corner of Rugby Street. Srulovich explains: “We knew as soon as we saw the site on Lamb’s Conduit Street that it was the one for us, and we rarely...

Those of you who've brought up children in our area, had a surgery with one of our local councillors or even had a meeting with our MP will probably have visited Bedford House in the passageway that links Lambs Conduit Street with Emerald Street.  Much needed redevelopment of the site is  nearing completion. ...

The Charles Dickens Museum is seeking three people to join its non-executive Board in spring 2021.   At this time, they are looking for skills and experience in museum management and accreditation, as well as people with legal and finance expertise. They would also welcome applications from people who live...

This April Camden is going to raise the cost of resident parking permits. The declared reason for this is "to reduce car ownership, car use and motor traffic levels" and "discouraging inessential car ownership and use". HV asked Camden for a definition of inessential car ownership and use. Here's...

Sometimes there is a silver lining… The Mayor of London had ambitious plans to part-pedestrianise Oxford Street and to tackle the appalling congestion at the infamous Swiss Cottage gyratory, but  Westminster City Council fought off both schemes with vigour. So the £50 million can go elsewhere. And Camden...

  A New Year greeting from your three councillors in Holborn and Covent Garden Ward. One more year and we are still grappling with the international ramifications of Trump (now shorn of the ‘adults’ in his entourage) and the suicidal tendencies of a looming ‘hard Brexit’ for the UK…...

The Calthorpe Project Community Garden has been redesigning its early years play area.   The new designs have been created by Variant Office in consultation with garden users. Proposals include more play facilities but also integrating garden areas for children to learn about planting and growing food.  Want to...

When film companies have CA-D bays suspended for filming it makes things very awkward for residents.  HV has campaigned for years about Camden issuing more permits than there are bays available.  Suspensions increase the problem. We lobbied to make adjacent paid-for bays available when CA-D bays had been suspended f...

Changes proposed by the Boundary Commission recommend changes to the constituencies. If you live south of Guilford St you'll won't be voting in Holborn and St Pancras, you'll be in the 'Cities of London and Westminster' constituency.   The reason behind it is to try and make the constituencies al...