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Help keep Camden Town’s character
• I AM writing to urge the New Journal’s readers to respond to Camden Council’s consultation on its planning brief for the Camden Town Tube Station site.
The consultation closes on February 22.
As recently as 2005 Transport for London’s previous proposals to demolish the Electric Ballroom, Buck Street Market and all the other buildings in the triangle to the north of the current station were defeated.
We are very concerned that the Camden Council Planning Brief is a back door route to giving TfL the council policy it needs to come back and force through a new, but fundamentally similar, development scheme.
We recognise the need to improve the Tube Station to ease congestion, but TfL’s ideas for the site would change the nature of the heart of Camden Town and actually reduce the number of people coming to the area.
Camden Town doesn’t need a bland arcade-style shopping mall above its Tube station.
It is a unique place that needs to retain its character.
My family has run the Electric Ballroom since the 1930s. We have just refurbished the Ballroom, investing a large sum of money in upgrading the venue. We will be improving the façade and exterior of the building. We do not want our premises demolished and our business displaced from the heart of Camden Town to make way for a shopping mall.
Readers can respond to the consultation by:
Logging on to Camden Council’s website at: www.camden.gov.uk/
consults; writing to David Morrissey, Forward Planning and Projects, LB Camden, Argyle Street, WC1H 8EQ or Emailing david.morrissey@camden.gov.uk
Thank you in advance for your readers’ support.
Kate Fuller
The Electric Ballroom
Camden Town, NW1
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