The council has introduced cycle lanes across the borough
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Calls are being made for Camden Council to consider alternative routes to its proposed cycle lanes scheme in Haverstock Hill.
The town hall launched a consultation on Monday (February 15) for the divisive project that would initially run as a 12-month trial. It could become permanent following further consultation.
The council says the scheme aims to encourage cycling and help reduce air pollution, and it has received support from some residents and cycling groups.
But residents opposed to the scheme claim their alternative routes are being ignored.
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10:00 AM February 3, 2021
Updated:
11:02 AM February 3, 2021
Cllr Oliver Cooper said residents were left fearful of leaving their homes
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A Hampstead Town councillor says the closure of the creperies was “undesirable but unavoidable” after “hellish” queues around Perrin’s Lane.
Cllr Oliver Cooper, the leader of Camden Council’s Conservative opposition, said residents had been left scared to leave their homes amid fears over a lack of social distancing.
La Crêperie de Hampstead and its next-door neighbour – backed by the King William IV pub – were closed by Camden Council after being ruled a “significant risk” of transmitting Covid.
The town hall said there was a minor technical error in the scheme
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Camden Council has U-turned on plans for cycle lanes in Haverstock Hill – saying it is looking at the scheme again.
The town hall confirmed today to the
Ham&High the experimental traffic order underpinning the scheme had been withdrawn due to a “minor technical error”.
The decision follows a ruling by the High Court on Wednesday that TfL’s Streetspace guidance – which the Haverstock Hill cycle lane scheme falls under – was unlawful following a challenge by taxi drivers in the High Court.
A Camden Council spokesperson said: “When we made the decision on the Haverstock Hill scheme we did so to the published guidance at the time.
Cllr Oliver Cooper, Camden Council
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3:45 PM January 15, 2021
Carlton Primary School is closing because of a decline in pupil numbers
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Last month, when announcing Camden’s tragic decision to close Carlton Primary, Camden s cabinet member for schools said something that should send a shiver down the spine of parents across Camden and give councillors pause for thought.
Carlton is the third school that Camden has proposed closing in two years, and the cabinet member told the meeting that because of the falling number of children growing up locally, it “won’t be the last,” calling it the “canary in the mine”.
The UN
But a separate report saw things differently. Although it does a lot for charity, Akelius’s business model is trampling on the human rights of its tenants,” wrote Leilani Farha, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the right to housing, in April 2020.
In the UK, Canada and Germany, it said: “Akelius’s business model, driven by the desire to maximise profits, has created a hostile environment for its tenants through a severe degradation of housing conditions, higher rents and increased risk or threat of eviction.
“I have been told that Akelius purchases apartment blocks, often with tenants already living in them, and then undertakes renovations to communal areas and vacant apartments within the block, regardless of need. These renovations are a vehicle for Akelius to charge substantially increased rents.”