Albert Street North Residents' Association

Our HS2 petition has been submitted and can be reviewed in the list of petitions. It is one of almost 2,000 petitions hosted on the Parliament web site and can be viewed here.

Open letter to Sir David Higgins ref HS1/2 Link

Please can you rethink or abandon the plan to put an HS2 link through the heart of Camden Town. Please consider the following arguments:

• Social and Business costs: This is a vibrant business, tourist and residential area which is densely populated. The link will destroy many aspects of this area with no planning gains. This plan could mean the loss of up to 10,000 jobs and £750m of business during the construction period and afterwards
• Closure of bridges and roads: This will have a major impact on all London traffic that uses Camden’s main road arteries. These costs are likely to be enormous in terms of lost time to business and public services. Have the costs of such disruption have been correctly calculated and included in the cost of the HS2 Link project?
• Pollution: The construction of such a link would have a major impact on already high levels of noise and pollution whilst parts of Camden Town are already exceeding European safe particulate limits. Government has an obligation to minimise pollution but in this case it seems happy to collude in generating excess levels and ignoring all pollution legislation – this can and should be corrected.

Please reconsider for the sake of the many businesses and residents who are about to be catastrophically displaced and inconvenienced by this proposed scheme.
Yours faithfully

ASNRA

The Victoria pub risks being converted into flats. Whilst we are often battling with pubs to restrict late night opening or D&D behaviour, there is no doubt that the Victoria is a beautiful example of a mid-Victorian end of terrace pub.  There is a campaign to save it and/or restrict the development plans.

We are all familiar with the problems of alcohol sales in Camden Town.  Recently we had to count the number of licensed premises on Parkway. FYI here is the list:

Albert Street North Residents’ Association represents the interests of residents living in the north end of Albert Street in Camden Town. We are a non-political group active in a number of areas which are important to local residents including crime, licensing, parking, planning issues, street cleanliness and traffic issues.