Author Archives: Adam Harrison

About Adam Harrison

Labour councillor for Bloomsbury ward, Camden, London

Public meeting: What is going on in Fitzrovia?

Posted on February 24, 2013

From the Fitzrovia News to All Souls School, from the West End Women’s Institute to the Charlotte Street Association, there is a lot going on in Fitzrovia with many active local residents and workers. Come along to hear about what … Continue reading →

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Campaigning in Fitzrovia

Posted on December 2, 2012

Thanks to the chair of Bloomsbury and King’s Cross Labour party Rishi Madlani for reminding us to get a photo of us out campaigning in Fitzrovia yesterday, speaking to local residents. We also had two students from UCL come out … Continue reading →

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Public meeting with the councillors: Fitzrovia Area Action Plan

Posted on November 21, 2012

Thanks to everyone who came to last night’s public meeting on the Fitzrovia Area Action Plan, held at the Indian YMCA. The turnout was excellent and we look forward to collating comments, working further with residents during the plan’s consultation, … Continue reading →

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Spearmint Rhino

Posted on October 14, 2012

Spearmint Rhino has been in the news a fair bit recently. Here is Bloomsbury councillor Milena Nuti quoted in the Telegraph. Some of the article is reproduced below: ‘Residents of Paramount Court, a block of flats over the venue, complained … Continue reading →

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Using public services to tackle inequality in Camden

Posted on July 18, 2012

Naomi Eisenstadt, senior research fellow in education and social policy at the University of Oxford, will chair Camden council’s equality taskforce and writes about it on the Guardian site today

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Olympics map for Bloomsbury

Posted on July 17, 2012

The Olympics are virtually upon us now and already in the area you can see people rushing around wearing London 2012 lanyards and driving Olympics cars, not to mention the banners on Gower Street and elsewhere. This map of changes … Continue reading →

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Camden Road Surgery, Brunswick Medical Centre

Posted on July 5, 2012

Camden’s health scrutiny ctte which I sit on recently set up an inquiry into the closure of Camden Road Surgery, chaired by Labour Cllr Angela Mason. My fellow ward Cllr Milena Nuti wrote to the local newspaper this week to … Continue reading →

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University College London Hospitals Charity in homes row

Posted on July 1, 2012

This was reported in last week’s West End Extra and again in this week’s Camden New Journal. Worth a read here ——– UPDATE on this issue – letter from long-time, but now former, resident Fiona Green to the Camden New … Continue reading →

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‘Rooms without a view’

Posted on June 17, 2012

Residents of Bedford Court Mansions are understandably upset at this article about a proposed ‘windowless hotel’ to be built four and five floors underground, beneath the rest of the St Giles Hotel. I went on a walkabout of the site … Continue reading →

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Strangers on a train

Posted on April 13, 2012

On Monday David Cameron got into my train carriage as I was setting off back to London from Chester. I took the chance to go up to him and press him for proper treatment for local residents, warning him as … Continue reading →

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