Camden Councillors

During the last year there have been continual issues affecting the area. One has been the problem of drug-dealing and drug-taking in residential areas, made worse by displacement from the Lilac Project's narrowly-defined area.

The Lilac Project has now come to an end, and many important lessons have been learned, and will continue to be put into practice. Insp Des Rock has also inherited the police manpower of an extra sergeant and six PCs, who now work on his team out of the re-opened Holborn Police Station. Some of these arrangements have resulted from our lobbying, as has the allocation of a further 90 police for Camden as a whole.

Licensing and planning issues have continued to be important for the area.

Bloomsbury Councillors have consistently pressed for a tightening of licensing policy to protect the residential community, especially against disturbance resulting from proliferation of the sex industry and the 24-hour city. The policy is now under review, and a second-stage consultation underway on "Night in, night out".

Consultation is also key to better policies on traffic management, always controversial, and especially so after recent U-turns! The Bloomsbury Ward Councillors have always tried to assist the CGCA in funding, and supported the most recent winning of a supplementary grant from Camden Council, and a better understanding in the Council of the breadth of services the CGCA provides. We have held our drop-in Surgeries on the last Friday of each month in the CGCA, where many problems have related to housing, also including continual problems of Council block maintenance and security, which we have taken up.

The redrawing of Ward boundaries means Bloomsbury bids a sad farewell to Covent Garden, and hands over to Councillors for the new "Holborn and Covent Garden" Ward - Julian Fulbrook, Sue Vincent, and Brian Woodrow. Bloomsbury Councillors wish them every success in representing this unique and vibrant area, and dealing with its problems. We will all miss the privilege of representing the residents of Covent Garden, but will stay in touch with many friends made over the years.

Cllr Peter Brayshaw

 

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