Category: Grays Inn Road
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Food Chain. Your local, not-for-profit coffee boost! Corner of Acton St./ Gray’s Inn Rd.
Quiet time to sit over a coffee or tea from morning to afternoon? Having a meeting with someone? Want to support a local Kings Cross-based charity for your coffee rather than a global chain? Need to grab a coffee? Business lunch? Need a wheelchair-accessible break? Need to have breakfast or small lunch? Need a good…
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Short film about Eviction in neighbouring area.
We have been asked by Anna R. to let readers know about this film, which was made about an eviction just beyond the area of WC1X / Kings Cross opposite the ITV building on Gray’s Inn Road on 22 April 2022. It documents the eviction of a “winter shelter” which is a squatted former St.…
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Management of Building Consultation on big developments Acorn House and Belgrove House
MSD, a huge international pharmaceutical company has received planning permission by Camden to set up a UK-Headquarter where McDonald’s and the Access Storage centre are located presently opposite Kings Cross Station (Access Storage, part of the Precis Capital Group are the owners of the land). In addition an eight-storey building is to be erected at…
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Kings Cross Road Safety Walk
Councillors of Camden and Islington met with local Kings Cross residents from across the area on Thursday 14th of April 2022 for a walk through the gyratory roads of Kings Cross discussing and highlighting necessary and pragmatic solutions for everyone’s safety on some of the roads. The group stopped at various junctions including Acton Street,…
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Tell TFL you care about them shelving transformative 2016 plans for Kings Cross
In 2016 Kings Cross agreed transformative plans of Kings Cross Roads. TFL shelved the plans now. Help us to bring back the vision. Here is a petition.
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Your local voice on Grays Inn Road segregated Cycle Lanes (and other schemas)
Camden has brought out a post-construction survey for residents and people who travel through to give their opinion over some of their recent schemas. This is to check if they have implemented changes wisely and used limited resources in the way local residents whom they serve wanted it. If changes are shown to be popular,…
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Temporary Advise on Speeding Vehicles on Kings Cross Gyratory Roads
TFL has sent us some temporary advise, what people should do to yet again report fast or speeding vehicles. Below I attach their full advise: “The Mayor of London and TfL are committed to delivering a Vision Zero approach to road danger reduction, which will rid London’s roads of death and serious injury. TfL funds, operates and…
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Car Speeds in Acton Street, Swinton Street, Kings Cross Road and the rest of the gyratory
Daniel from Acton Street has asked councillors and TfL to look into the question of the outstanding changes, in order to calm and humanize streets affected by the decades old gyratory system. A consultation in 2016 suggested several changes, but so far, they were not implemented, with the argument that it could not be done…
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