Covent Garden London
The heart of London's West End
JANUARY 1999 Friends of Covent Garden As you would expect, the CGCA has been busy at the start of 1999. As Covent Garden continues to be subjected to extraordinary pressure from food, drink and entertainment uses (and from property developers still trying to make a quick buck), the area benefits from a ‘watchdog’ organisation to question the various goings-on in the Covent Garden community. The CGCA, now in its 27th year, remains vigilant and active. We actively seek to make Covent Garden a better place – to live, work, visit or do business – and believe that preserving the character and amenity of the area will pay-off for everyone eventually. As you may have seen and heard on television and radio recently, we have continued the ‘battle’ against inappropriate licensing and planning applications with a potential of being very harmful to local residents. You find news within the site of recent hearings involving Bass, All Bar One, The Langley, Detroit and Belushi's. Although these successful ‘battles’ have been quite high profile, this is just one aspect of the CGCA's work. To contrast this, we currently manage a one-year outreach worker project among older, vulnerable people in the Camden part of Covent Garden. We aim to document the unmet needs of those most in need in our community and to provide practical help where possible. You may have noticed that our web site has now moved and is now held at http://www.coventgarden.org.uk. The CGCA especially thanks Alan Mills at Venus Internet in Denmark Street for providing the space and registering our domain name for us. The site now has many photographs of Covent Garden taken over the Christmas period – we have some rare photographs ‘snapped’ on Christmas Day of a lifeless Piazza and an empty James Street! Soon we hope to provide a full ‘virtual photographic stroll’ of Covent Garden and are continuing to develop the map. If you have interesting photos you'd like us to include, perhaps of your shop or premises, please contact us and we'll try to accommodate them. We are also trying to develop a full list of all local business and Coven Garden related Web sites - just email us your details if you want to be added to our links page. Please feel free to include our address on your pages. If you are organising or know of any Covent Garden events, please inform us as we would be delighted to include the details on our site. The site itself was featured in the West End Extra on 15th January - have a look at the rare photograph of the CGCA Web wombles with the article! If you no longer want to receive our updates, please send a note to the following address asking to be removed: liam@onlinesales.co.uk CGCA Webmaster 21 Macklin Street, London WC2B 5NH Telephone: 0171 836 3355
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