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Fn143-Lowres.Pdf Want to do some business? news.fitzrovia.org.uk Fitzrovia News Fitzrovia News is produced by residents and volunteers and distributed free to all businesses and residential addresses in Fitzrovia Issue 143 Winter 2016 Businesses hit with huge hike in rates The road from Malaysia By Linus Rees Business Improvement District page 9 (BID). Currently around 230 busi - Businesses in Fitzrovia will be hit nesses are liable for this levy with a huge increase in bills next which is 1 percent of rateable year after the government con - value and collected by Camden firmed an increase of business Council on behalf of the BID. rates in its autumn Statement. But due to the rise in rateable Although land values are values in the BID area more busi - lower than most of London’s nesses could become included for other West End districts, the cost this extra payment. However, The of premises in Fitzrovia has Fitzrovia Partnership has told increased at a greater rate and Fitzrovia News that it wants to will squeeze the area’s communi - mitigate the effects of the rates ty of small businesses and cre - increase and will raise the thresh - ative industries. old figure that triggers a demand The higher costs reflect the for payment so that no more busi - rapid increase in property value nesses become liable for the levy. which has hit residential as well The BID says it will reduce as commercial rents. Much of it is the levy to offset the increase in caused by the new Crossrail sta - bills. Cartoonist has tion at Tottenham Court Road “We are doing analysis on the two books out for and the marketing of Fitzrovia to levy percentage with a view to overseas investors wanting to reducing the levy and increasing Christmas move their wealth into property. our rateable value threshold,” High profile residential and says BID manager Lee Lyons. Page 13 commercial developments on the “We are well aware of the sites of the former Middlesex impact on businesses with the Hospital at Fitzroy Place and for - increasing business rates and are mer Royal Mail delivery office at working with our members to Rathbone Square have attracted support them. We have recently Former medical students rehearse for their reunion party “Death by international attention. launched an offer to our member - Nostalgia” in the Middlesex Hospital Chapel. See story page 8. Fitzrovia has also been plun - ship with our partners BNP Photograph by Etienne Gilfillan. dered by numerous other rede - Paribas to look at opportunities to between Bayley Street and New velopments which have damaged challenge the new proposed rat - tion now allows for cross bor - Oxford Street, an area previously much of the area’s historical fab - ings,” he says. ough BIDs. part of the neighbouring ric despite its conservation areas. In the summer of 2017 the “The BID is currently explor - InMidtown BID. Residents have been priced out BID will re-ballot businesses in ing all situations in regard to the Fitzrovia News also under - while cheap and characterful the hope of securing a further five ballot, this includes the tidying stands that The Fitzrovia offices have been replaced by year mandate. up of our boundaries that may Local group Partnership is considering a fur - pimped-up apartments and However, the BID is also like - well include Tottenham Court ther expansion of its area to brash, glass-fronted boxes or fake ly to increase its area to include Road and the Westminster area of release new CD include part of the Westminster Georgian facades. businesses on the south eastern Charlotte Street,” said Lyons in a side of Fitzrovia after new legisla - Businesses will see, on aver - side of Tottenham Court Road statement. Page 6 age, a 40 percent increase in the rateable value of their premises, far higher than the London aver - age of 23.7 percent, and higher than the average increase in Westminster (25.3 percent) and Camden (29.5 precent). But bills will be capped to allow a transition period to allow businesses to plan for their future GIGS est. 1958 rate demands. The change will The home of traditional Fish & Chips come into effect in April 2017. In 2012 businesses in the Fully licensed Greek restaurant Camden part of Fitzrovia which Trip Adviser Certificate of Excellence winners, 2014, 2015, 2016 currently have a rateable value of over £100,000 voted to pay a levy 12 Tottenham Street 020 7636 1424 to The Fitzrovia Partnership 2 — Fitzrovia News issue 143 Winter 2016 facebook.com/FitzroviaNews :: twitter.com/FitzroviaNews Fitzrovia News Formerly The Tower Letters, emails and comment established 1973 news.fitzrovia.org.uk Write to [email protected] or post to Fitzrovia News, Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association, 39 Tottenham Street, London W1T 4RX twitter.com/fitzrovianews facebook.com/fitzrovianews [email protected] Does Fitzrovia fail as a community? Good spirits 020 7580 4576 To Residents of Fitzrovia. through which to communicate sibility. Outside a bicycle shop on Great Issue 143 Winter 2016 I have been a resident of and offer help Fitzrovians are a The Fitzrovia Centre in Foley Portland Street there’s a coffee Published 6 December 2016 Fitzrovia since 1974. Although family whose members do not Street hosts activities for all stall. The man who runs it has the area is proud of its historic speak to each other, rather than ages, but not a forum for com - his own bike beside him, and on Editorial Team identity, does contemporary a community. munity discussion. the back of the bike he carries a Mike Pentelow: Fitzrovia fail to achieve an iden - In a vibrant community the Fitzrovia News declines to container in which he grows editor and features editor tity as a community? elderly are a resource of guid - advertise the activities of the plants. Linus Rees: Local church, school, and ance and skills that they can Fitzrovia Centre unless it pays We’ve taken to chatting assistant editor other groups such as those for exchange and share. As well, for the service. when I pass, and I admired his Pete Whyatt: women and addicts are provid - they have needs difficult to The Mayor of London is new pink geranium, saying I news and production editor ed for — but failing to belong to access, even in a metropolis such keen to promote social inclusion. had a red one in my window Clive Jennings: one of these demographics, one as London, which cannot be met It is not a social service to be box. He said coffee grounds arts editor is geographically a Fitzrovian exclusively by social welfare provided by the city or the state. were good for them As I don't Brian Jarman: without being a member of any organisations. It exists at the local level of the drink coffee, he insisted on giv - writer and sub-editor community. Although Westminster and community. ing me some grounds to take Barb Jacobson: My downstairs neighbour, Camden both have freeshare Does community matter? back. Neighbours. associate editor with no one to check in on him, websites — there is no conspicu - The Spring 2010 issue of the A goose lost outside Euston Jennifer Kavanagh: lay dead on the floor of his flat ous facility for locals to volun - Fitzrovia News included a similar station. I watched a bus wait for associate editor for days before he was discov - teer their time or skills to those letter. Since then little progress it to cross the road. Jess Owens ered. Another, barely unable to who have no resources other has been made. Finally, after about 13 years associate editor walk, was rescued in the street than the accidental kindness of If community matters to you; of living here, I went into All by a local resident as he shuffled strangers. Is that what urban if you would like to participate Saints, Margaret Street — a cou - Contributors: back from the supermarket, society has now become? or have time and skills to share, ple of roads south of where I John Axon unable to cope. There is no local website please let me know — and tell live. A very beautiful 1850s Ann Basu How many other ill, elderly, where information and ideas, community ‘leaders' you have church, opened by Pusey, one of Sue Blundell disabled or housebound people suggestions and complaints can contact with what you expect of the leaders of the Oxford move - Jayne Davis are there in Fitzrovia handi - be aired or shared. Without one, them if you would like to help ment, well worth a visit. And, Etienne Gilfillan capped by a lack of neighbourly finding support to remedy com - build one. for good measure, I went into Ann Goodburn support? plaints about commercial prem - Antony Ruth the Buddhist temple opposite Janet Gauld Wouldn’t a genuine commu - ises, or anti-social behaviour Email: [email protected] and visited the very vivid Clifford Harper nity be concerned to know — from licensed premises and shrine. Just a couple of streets Luke Ijaz and care? Yet without a facility other local nuisance is an impos - north of Oxford Street, tranquil Rosie Lunn sanctuaries of worship. C McArthur Searching A bus journey on the number Sunita Soliar I’m looking for information of a 29: sitting next to a man in a Clifford Slapper Miss Katie Kent who I believe yarmulka was a young Muslim Wendy Shutler Rough sleepers was born in 1903 and spent over woman who offered her seat to Jean Sveinsson 50 years selling flowers outside an older man with a walking Chris Tyler I am a property manager with deliveries.
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