Crossrail is coming

With 50,000 extra daily visitors to Totten- ham Court Road Station developers will Vote for your Is this the be looking for a bonanza. Bloomsbury While Camden is run by Labour, Lib Dem future of or Tory councillors, it will follow business- candidates friendly policies that focus on unrestrained growth, rather than the Bloomsbury neighbourhoods’ needs. and Fitzrovia? Vote Green to defend Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia

Only the Green Party opposes the unsus- tainable economics that destroy neigh- bourhoods in the interests of growth. Justin Hoffman A Green council would: Beatrix Campbell * Stand up against big transport projects Sam Bueno de Mesquita that would throw thousands more people into the area Camden Green Party * Introduce a 24-hour noise complaints [email protected] line (and what you can 020 7388 8969 * Insist that serviceable buildings are renovated and restored, not demolished do to save your and replaced Promoted and published by Edward Milford on behalf of Camden Green Party, both of 56 Walker House, NW1 1EP. Printed by Greenprint, 58 neighbourhood) * Ensure that planning regulations are BeechAvenue, , HA4 8UQ on recycled paper enforced * Expand the stock of social housing neighbourhood) Green Party Fair is worth fighting for Green Party Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia are worth fighting for

Crowded : the Restaurant extractor fans: The threatened Strand Central St Giles: There are The Crossrail development future of Fitzrovia? ugly by day, noisy all night Union Workhouse, just 12 units of social on Court Road Cleveland Street housing in this new block NO to dense, unwanted NO to noise NO to destruction NO to housing shortages NO to unsustainable new development 24-hour licensing and the Good, historic buildings Camden’s stock of social growth Developers want to turn spread of bars and restau- are being knocked down. housing has shrunk. There Crossrail may bring 50,000 Bloomsbury into a high- rants into Bloomsbury has The Victorian workhouse are now nearly 18,000 people daily into an density commercial and created a constant late- on Cleveland Street, is people on the waiting list already overcrowded area. tourism centre like Oxford night bustle. Late licenses being replaced - probably - the third highest in the The Bloomsbury we know Street. make money, but Blooms- with an ugly, high-density country. and love can’t take it. bury doesn’t want a 24- block. Growth is not always good. YES to preserving the area hour party on its streets. YES to social housing we love YES to repairing and We need every new devel- YES to protecting a We want to preserve YES to a 24-hour noise renovating opment to have 50% social much-loved area the unique character of complaints line Wherever possible we housing. And we need the Bloomsbury needs green Bloomsbury for future gen- All we need to stop late- should use the buildings council to make sustain- spaces, social hous- erations, and to prevent night noise is rapid, we have – and if a building able housing, rather than ing, a local secondary huge building projects, and consistent enforcement of is demolished, some of the tax freezes, its top priority school, less traffic and massive commercialisation rules that already exist. No site becomes a green space reduced carbon emissions. aimed at serving tourists, council has ever managed for residents. not residents this. Camden Green Party