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Consultation meeting in Kentish Town tomorrow on NHS future

The local primary care trust ‘NHS Camden’ is seeking to make drastic changes to the provision of primary and urgent care in Camden. Make sure you make your views known through the consultation that closes on 9th Ocober. You can also attend a meeting, organised by NHS Camden in Kentish Town on 8th September – [...]

Greens join campaign against racial profiling of gigs

Local Green campaigner Sian Berry joined civil liberties champions and musicians in a joint letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission this week, opposing the use of discriminatory questions about music events in a form used by the Met Police – Form 696. This is an important issue for Camden Town and Kentish Town, [...]

Housing sell-offs: meeting this Wednesday in Kentish Town

The ‘No Sell-Offs’ campaign against auctioning off council houses and flats, is holding an urgent public meeting this Wednesday in Kentish Town. The leaflet opposite gives details of the meeting – at Kentish Town Community Centre on Busby Place this Wednesday at 6.30 pm – and asks ‘How can we turn up the pressure on [...]

Work to resume on Fortess Road?

Some signs today that safety work on Fortess Road, including pavement widening, new pedestrian crossings and relocated bus-stops, may be getting going again. After consultation ended in late 2006 (you can still see the Council’s plans and consultation documents here – pdf), the progress of this project has been painfully slow. Last year, residents  had [...]

What WOULD improve the High Street – let us know!

The old Woolworths shop on Kentish Town Road has now re-opened as a Sainsbury’s ‘Local’ supermarket. The Green Party in the area has long championed locally owned, independent shops and we’re not sure this is exactly what the High Street needed or the best use of the Woolworths site. With a Tesco, Iceland, Somerfield, Co-op [...]

Hello from the Greens in Kentish Town

Welcome to the new Green Kentish Town blog – you can also find us on Twitter as @KTGreens We’re a group of Green campaigners in and around Kentish Town, and we keep a pretty close eye on what’s happening in our area. So this blog aims to share some of what we find out with [...]

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