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London Reconnections (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Network Rail have released the first concept pictures of the upcoming changes to West Hampstead station as part of the Thameslink project. Overall, the intention is to improve interchange and passenger flows through a station redesign. This will tie in with Camden Council's own plans for reshaping pedestrian paths in the area. As part of this, Network Rail intend to demolish the two commercial units...
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The Swiss Cottage (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
At last count there were 3.03 million vehicles registered in Greater London, of which 2.6 million were cars. These cars represent about 9.2% of the nation’s total count of 28.4 million cars across the country. In 2008, private cars, clocked up an average of 8,130 miles. However, as more cars pour on to local roads, average vehicle speed in London has fallen below that of a horse-drawn carriage....
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Jeff Mills Coastal Vacations Club B (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Camden is one of London’s hidden gems. Camden’s borough goes North from the central areas of Covent Garden and Holborn through Euston and Kings Cross into the trendy Camden Town quarter to the verdant and leafy Hampstead quarter. Being generally a wealthy quarter there are many [...]
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The Urban Woo (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
To Hampstead Heath last night for the launch of Roger Lewis' fantastic new book, Seasonal Suicide Notes , a taste of which is here. I am delighted to be the recipient of Mr L's hilarious emails, as he's one of our regular reviewers, as well as the author of the best Peter Seller's biography, and The Man Who Was Private Widdle, a short biography of Charles Hawtrey; the latter of which was brought for...
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StroudGreen.org - All Discussions (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Its the most amazing place in London, and I've lived in Ealing, Edgware, Hendon and Willesden Green and I've been in most parts of London from Hammersmith, Stoke Newington, East Dulwich, West Hampstead, Camden .. enough. Its just the amazing combination of colourful, wonderful people.
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
WHEN ARCHITECTS Annette Dempsey and Cormac Allen returned from London in 1996 – having worked and lived variously in Hampstead, Islington and Camden – they had a taste for city living which is what attracted them to this Victorian redbrick house at 9 St Joseph’s Street, Dublin 7, near the Mater Hospital and the NCR.
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SWISS COTTAGE COURIER (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
Hurrah! The consultations on the special conservation measures (aka "Article Four Directions") are now kicking off in Swiss Cottage, Belsize and Hampstead . I know that local amenity groups have campaigned for this for many years, and it is great that it is finally happening. It's been an important priority for the Conservative group on Camden Council. Consultation letters will be sent to...
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SWISS COTTAGE COURIER (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
I am flabbergasted at the "mansion tax" policy that Vince Cable has just announced at the LibDem conference - a 0.5% property tax on the value of any property over £1m. Many older people in the NW3/NW8/NW6 area are fortunate enough to live in houses that are now worth a lot of money, but are still living on modest fixed incomes (not least given the reduced income from savings). For...
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Node in the Noosphere (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
I have previously written about Lord Alton of Liverpool and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department . For the record, the others are ... Lord Alton of Liverpool , David Amess, MP , The Rt Hon The Lord Archer of Sandwell, QC , Henry Bellingham MP , Brian Binley MP , Lord Clarke of Hampstead , Lord Corbett of Castle Vale , Lord Dholakia of Waltham Brook , David Drew, MP , The Rt Hon The Lord...
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Theo's blog (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
Fed up with po-faced Lib Dems (mainly) on leaflets pointing at broken pieces of street furniture or outside threatened local public services clutching petitions to 'show that they care' about the neighbourhood, then the excellent Glum Councillors blog is for you. Pictured here is Ed 'Boredom' Fordham, rejected Lib Dem council candidate for Hampstead Town ward in 2006, outside the Royal Free looking,...
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THE CITY PROJECT (Free subscription) | 22/08/2009
Cycling geography is awesome. Yesterday a nice brown paper package dropped through the post: Local Cycling Guides from Transport for London . Maps! Now, maps on their own make me happy - it's geeky, but I love to see how everything connects up, and that passion isn't dimmed by however much critical cartography and Brian Harley I read on the power relations involved. Yet in that context these maps are...
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a rather unusual chinaman (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
Its Saturday and I am hungry, after all, all I have eaten in the last 24 hours is a banana, a satsuma and a packet of sour cream and onion crisps. Destination is Goldfish, a chinese restaurant in Hampstead which promises an unlimited Dim Sum buffet. Too good to be true? Arriving at Goldfish, its still quite early and the place is empty. I found it slightly disheartening that Ping Pong next door was...
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ill and ancient (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
I read a well interesting piece on Schneier the other day, it changed the way I think about risks, security and rules ...yet another conference presenter complaining about security awareness training. He was talking about the difficulty of getting employees at his company to actually follow his security policies: encrypting data on memory sticks, not sharing passwords, not logging in from untrusted...
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SWISS COTTAGE COURIER (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
I'm delighted that my colleague Chris Philp and the local Conservative team, backed by many people across the community, have been successful in saving our local police stations - Hampstead and West Hampstead . The Metropolitan Police Authority has now withdrawn its closure plans for nearly all London boroughs, including Camden. Now the council should work constructively with the borough police to...
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TechRadar (Free subscription) | 04/08/2009
Rightmove has launched a new iPhone App to let Brits browse over a million UK properties for sale or to rent. So if you fancy a change of scene then you can now idly surf the property market on your bus to work in the morning. Righmove's new iPhone app promises to deliver "instant on-the-move property searches to your fingertips" and a quick shufty at the new App reveals that it is just...
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