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Leaving Fitzrovia. Paul Kitsaros has closed his workshop at 66 Cleveland Street. Photo: Fitzrovia News.

One of the few remaining bespoke tailors operating from a building in Fitzrovia has pulled down the shutters on his shop for the last time, and intends to set up business elsewhere.

Paul Kitsaros, who has operated out of a small, ground floor workshop at 66 Cleveland Street since 1998, shut the shop in March.

He was born in 1945 in Cyprus and came to the UK aged 15. He served an apprenticeship with a tailors in Camden Town and then in Saville Row.

Paul Kitsaros sitting in his Cleveland Street shop. Image source: Paul Kitsaros promotional Video.

Having mastered his craft he set up his own bespoke tailoring business in Brewer Street, Soho at age 28 before moving to Cleveland Street.

He is a well-known local personality and featured in a number of magazine articles including the Financial Times and was interviewed for the Fitzrovia Arts Festival in 2021.

When Kitsaros first came to Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia still had a bustling rag trade and there were a large number of tailors and garment workshops in the neighbourhood.

But as the area has seen property prices rise, the industry has largely left Fitzrovia for more affordable areas of London.

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Higher numbers of visitors will place pressure on the streets surrounding The Tower says Councillor Adam Harrison. Photo: Fitzrovia News.

A senior Camden councillor has said the BT Tower conversion will “place pressure” on the local area. 

The Tower was sold on Wednesday to US hotel business MCR Hotels for £275mn.

Responding to the Tower’s sale, Councillor Adam Harrison said: “The first thing residents in Fitzrovia will want to know is what the impact of a hotel operation here would be and how this can be managed. 

“Higher numbers of visitors will place pressure on the immediately adjacent streets. 

“I would hope any development here would contribute to improving the streetscape here, which on the specific block hosting the BT Tower is somewhat bleak and unwelcoming. 

“We have made good progress in the Tottenham Court Road area to green our streets and make them more people-friendly — we need to apply that here, too,” he said. 

Harrison, who represents Bloomsbury ward and is the cabinet member for a sustainable Camden, raised concerns over the location of the proposed hotel. 

“The site is also located at the junction of a major rat run — Clipstone Street and Maple Street. 

“This makes for an unpleasant environment and so I hope the new owners will want to address this, too,” he said. 

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BT Group agrees to sell its telecommunications tower in Fitzrovia to MCR Hotels for £275mn, after the US company approached it with an offer.

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A public notice outside the former Middlesex Hospital Annex site shows a plan for a new street name.

UCLH Charity, the developer of the former Middlesex Hospital Annex and Strand Union Workhouse site, has applied to Camden Council to name the new street through the site as “Fitzroy Walk”.

The site which is currently under construction to create a mix of residential and commercial properties was known as the Bedford Passage Development, after a historic street name on the eastern side of the site.

But now the developer says “The Bedford Passage Development is now called Fitzroy Walk” and a public notice has been put up outside the site stating that an application has been made to Camden Council to register a new street name.

According to Camden Council, new street names should be logical, have some connection to the local area, and not be duplicated within the borough.

Camden says it will consult with the London Fire Brigade as they act on behalf of all emergency services, to make sure they do not have any objections.

The public can make comments on the application by email to [email protected] until 22 March 2022.

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BT Group has sold its 189m Tower to MCR Hotels. Image: Sue Blundell.

BT Group has agreed to sell its telecommunications tower in Fitzrovia to MCR Hotels for £275mn, after the US company privately approached it with an offer.

The 189 metre tall Tower is no longer essential to BT’s operations as these are now delivered by other methods.

“The Tower’s microwave aerials were removed more than a decade ago, as they were no longer needed to carry telecommunications traffic from London to the rest of the country,” said BT in an announcement on the sale this week.

MCR says it intends to preserve the iconic Tower — which was listed Grade II in 2003 — by “re-purposing it as a hotel and opening it up to the public”.

Payment for the sale will be made over multiple years, while BT carries out the complicated task of removing its telecommunications equipment from the building, with final payment being made on completion of the purchase.

When the sale is finalised MCR will own the freehold of the Tower and the podium it stands upon, plus all the buildings on the site bounded by Howland Street, Cleveland Street, Maple Street and Cleveland Mews.

Those streets were originally laid out in the late 18th century and Maple Street still has a number of original buildings standing from that time across the road from the Tower.

The Museum Telephone Exchange building, built 1939, on Howland Street. Photo: Fitzrovia News.

The site also includes a number of unlisted buildings including the former Museum Telephone Exchange, built in 1939, on Howland Street on the site of a row of Georgian houses. It is these elements of the building — which are substantial — that will be the focus of possible demolition and redevelopment.

MCR says it will partner with London-based architects Heatherwick Studio and there will be significant time for design development and engagement with local communities before proposals are revealed.

“The deal, which came about after the hotel group approached BT with an offer, is not conditional on MCR securing planning approvals to convert the protected historic building,” reported the Financial Times.

The completion of the purchase could take up to six years reported the FT, which means a planning application is likely to be submitted to Camden Council towards the end of the decade.

A large hotel would require daily servicing with frequent vehicle movements to and from the site, and would be a source of noise nuisance to nearby residents unless managed properly.

There is an opportunity to provide some community benefit by providing shops to meet the needs of local residents, and the roof of the buildings surrounding the base of the Tower could be used for much needed public open space and greenery.

The new owners might also consider a mix of affordable housing on the site. However, they are likely to want to introduce cafes, bars and restaurants on the ground floors — something Fitzrovia has enough of already.

View from Howland Street of the BT Tower. Photo: Fitzrovia News.

Brent Mathews, property director, BT Group said: “The BT Tower sits at the heart of London and we’ve been immensely proud to be the owners of this important landmark since 1984.”

Tyler Morse, CEO and owner of MCR Hotels, said: “We are proud to preserve this beloved building and will work to develop proposals to tell its story as an iconic hotel, opening its doors for generations to enjoy.”

MCR Hotels own around 150 hotels, including the Eero Saarinen-designed TWA Hotel in New York City.

The Tower was first proposed in 1954, with construction starting in 1961 to the design of the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works Architect’s Department headed by Eric Bedford. It was opened as the Post Office Tower by prime minister Harold Wilson in 1965 as the tallest structure in London.

Its viewing gallery and revolving restaurant was open to the public until it closed after a bomb was detonated near the top of the Tower in October 1971 — an explosion that was assumed to be the work of the IRA but later thought to have been carried out by the Angry Brigade.

In 1973 Fitzrovia’s first community newspaper, Tower, took its name from the building at the geographical centre of the neighbourhood.

Since 1984, the BT Tower has been owned by British Telecom, later the BT Group, with its top floor regularly hosting corporate and charity events, and its digital screen displaying various messages across London.

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139 and 141 Cleveland Street were built around 1792-3. This section of the street was known as Buckingham Place and a passage between the two houses led to Cambridge Place at the rear. Photo: Fitzrovia News.

All Souls Clubhouse has stood on a site behind a row of eighteenth-century houses on Cleveland Street since the late 1950s. But the Clubhouse building was originally a school for a different church and was built on the site of some small cottages.

What is called Cleveland Street today was, before the development of the area, known variously as The Green Lane or Wrastling Lane. “Its oldest name, recorded by 1632, was Wrastling Lane,” states the Survey of London.

Up until the 1700s, the area around Cleveland Street was an undeveloped marshland outside of the growing London metropolis to the south. Wrastling Lane evolved into The Green Lane, a countryside track along the boundary of the parishes of St Pancras and St Marylebone.

On the north end of The Green Lane where it met another track was the Farthing Pye House, on a site where the Green Man pub on Euston Road is today. In the 1690s the area around it was known as the Farthing Pye-house fields.

Richard Horwood’s 1813 map of London (revised by William Faden) shows the passage between the buildings to the 13 cottages to the rear. Source: Public Domain.

The terrace of houses that stand today from number 139 to number 151 Cleveland Street was built around 1792-3 by William Doncom and Thomas Parting on the open fields as London expanded northwards, on a strip of land owned by the Berners Estate. To the rear the land was owned by the Duke of Portland.

This section of Cleveland Street between Carburton Street and Greenwell Street on the west side was known as Buckingham Place, states the Survey, and adding to the confusion over historical street names.

Parting fitted out number 139 as a bakery for James Gifford, building him an oven with a “compleat iron door” and a floor of “Chalfont tiles” and fitting the kitchen with shelves and a trap door to bring flour up from the basement. “An inventory of 1800 mentions a bow-fronted shop front and a staircase ‘skirted and papered’ up to the second floor but no higher,” states the Survey.

Today there is no trace of the bakery nor the shopfront, and the front of the ground floor has been covered in stucco.

At number 141, a blue plaque commemorates the residence in 1812-15, at what was then 8 Buckingham Place, of the future American inventor Samuel Morse. “[H]e shared lodgings here with C R Leslie, when both were budding artists taking lessons from Benjamin West in Newman Street.”

Between number 139 and 141 Cleveland Street a passage had led to a “back-court of 13 pokey cottages on Portland land, created around 1793-4 by the surveyor-builder Thomas Piper of Howland Street, and known as Cambridge Place.”

On Richard Horwood’s 1813 map of London the passage between the buildings can be seen along with the location of the 13 cottages to the rear.

Photos from 1968 and 1972 show the original location of the passage between the houses and the doorways of numbers 139 and 141. The street number 139A can be seen on the door to the passage.

The entrance to The Clubhouse in 1972 in the same position to what it was when the passage to Cambridge Place was built in 1792-4. Modified from an original image from the London Metropolitan Archives via Layers of London. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).

In 1852 the two rows of cottages were demolished to be replaced by schools for the parish of Holy Trinity church, Marylebone Road.

The entrance to the schools was from the north through a yard between John Flaxman’s old house at 7 Buckingham (now Greenwell) Street and the George and Dragon pub.

A map of 1895 shows the location of the Holy Trinty schools off Buckingham Street (now Greenwell Street). The site was later known as the Carburton Triangle. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.

Flaxman was a British sculptor and draughtsman, and a leading figure in the British and European neoclassicism art movement who worked as a modeller for Josiah Wedgwood.

A commemorative plaque erected around 1870 by the Society of Arts on the front of the house stated: “John Flaxman, sculptor, lived and died here, B 1755, D 1826.”

This house was bought by the rector of Holy Trinity and became the schools’ official address.

A photo from 1945 shows the entrance on Greenwell Street next to the George and Dragon pub with the words “Holy Trinity Schools”, and the plaque commemorating Flaxman can also be seen.

Buckingham Street was renamed in 1937 after the locally prominent Greenwell family, notably James Hugo Greenwell and his son Walpole Eyre Greenwell who were vestry clerks.

“The original boys’ school, a dour building on the south side of Cambridge Place with a semiopen ‘cloister’ below and three ‘shops’ above, was soon supplemented with a girls’ and infants’ school northwards,” states the Survey.

“Trinity District Schools claimed 630 children for its register on this tiny site in 1871, though only 215 were recorded as attending; just a year or two later in the course of an appeal to the Duke of Portland to donate the freehold, different figures were claimed — a capacity of 970 and a roll of 700.”

Another source states: “In 1903 it had accommodation for 967 pupils.”

When the schools shut in 1914, the buildings became a parish clubhouse.

In 1958 the Trinity House Club, as it was called on a post-war map, was transferred from one church to another. This was initiated by John Stott, rector of All Souls Church (1950-1975), who created All Souls Clubhouse as a community centre intended to serve the parish in practical ways.

The passage from Cleveland Street was later stopped up and a new passage created further north from a window on the house at number 141, as a photo of the building during work-in-progress from 1974 shows.

Regular Sunday services and Holy Communion were held at a community church in an upstairs room of the former schools, while a number of charitable projects continue to be run in the rest of the building.

The Clubhouse gained national recognition in February 1993 when Queen Elizabeth paid a visit to view the refurbished chapel and to unveil a commemorative plaque.

View from Carburton Street of the former Holy Trinity Schools building, with the George and Dragon pub on the left. Photo: Fitzrovia News.

On Greenwell Street John Flaxman’s old house and the former schools’ entrance portico is no longer there, having been demolished as part of a redevelopment bounded by Carburton Street, Great Titchfield Street, and Greenwell Street — known as the Carburton Street Triangle site.

A photo in Fitzrovia News from September 1981 shows a worker hacking Flaxman’s plaque off the wall shortly before the building was demolished. The plaque was later refixed onto the new building on the site.

The plaque for John Flaxman, sculptor is now on the wall of a new building on the site. Photo: Fitzrovia News.

That the 19th century Clubhouse buildings and the row of 18th century houses on Cleveland Street survive to this day is a small miracle considering the redevelopment plans which had been put forward in the 1960s and 1970s.

In 1965, Stott had discussed with the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) a plan to move All Souls School in Foley Street to the triangle site, where a new school and Clubhouse complex would be built.

Westminster Council — which had already developed Holcroft Court to the south — also wanted to demolish all of the buildings and redevelop the triangle site, in the face of strong local resistance from people who wanted the houses refurbished.

But in 1974 the Greater London Council’s Historic Buildings Division was advising ILEA that the Cleveland Street houses should be preserved, making the remaining site too small for a new school, states the Survey.

The Cleveland Street houses were the only 18th century buildings of the Carburton triangle to be retained. Photo: Fitzrovia News.

As a result, Westminster’s planners removed Cleveland Street and the Clubhouse from their plans and opted instead to redevelop the rest of the triangle site for new housing.

The George and Dragon pub at the north end of this terrace “is festively stuccoed, an embellishment that may date from alterations in 1861 or 1879,” states the Survey. “It retains its original Georgian height, its neighbours having probably all been raised a storey in the later nineteenth century.”

The row of buildings from number 139 to the George and Dragon at number 151 are all Grade II listed.

The buildings containing All Souls Clubhouse are not listed but are within the Cleveland Street conservation area and, although modernised, remain relatively unchanged since the mid-19th century.

However, the charity that runs the Clubhouse has undergone a reorganisation over the past few years, and the regular Sunday services held at the upstairs chapel came to an end in early November.

All Souls Serve The City, a charitable incorporated organisation created in January 2021, now runs ministry work on behalf of All Souls Langham Place from the site — continuing John Stott’s vision in the buildings that he once suggested demolishing.

Sources: Survey of London, South-East Marylebone, (draft) chapter 24, Bolsover Street to Cleveland Street; London Picture Archive, Cleveland Street archive photos; London Picture Archive, Greenwell Street archive photos.

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Samuel Morse blue plaque, 141 Cleveland Street, 1972

This photograph was taken on Cleveland Street in 1972. Between the two windows on the ground floor of No. 141 is a blue plaque commemorating Samuel Morse, who lived in the building between 1812 and 1815.Although he is best known as an inventor, Morse came to London to study painting. By the time he left three years later he had gained admittance to the Royal Academy, a short walk across Soho. It was only in 1825, back in America, that he started to explore telegraphy, although his claim to the invention of the electrical telegraph - and the code which bears his name - have since been contested.The plaque was erected in 1962 by the London County Council (LCC), who inherited the commemorative plaque scheme from the Society of Arts at the turn of the twentieth century. By 1965 the LCC had erected just under 250 plaques across the capital.The Club House sign to the left of the image marked All Souls Club House, which was founded by the Rector of All Souls Langham Place, the Rev John RW Stott, in response to the need to house clubs for children living in the area.Image Copyright: London Metropolitan Archives (City of London Corporation)

All Souls Clubhouse, 141 Cleveland Street. Photo: Fitzrovia News.

A community church on Cleveland Street in Fitzrovia is to hold its last service on 5 November — bringing an end to more than 40 years of Sunday worship at its chapel.

The closure of the Sunday service is one of many changes that have occurred over the past few years as the charity that runs All Souls Clubhouse underwent a restructuring which culminated, among other things, in the creation of a new charitable organisation.

Since the late 1950s there has been a small chapel for the ministry workers to use at the Clubhouse. Then as the community grew in size, every Sunday from the late 1970s, a congregation formed with their own vicar for an hour-long service of praise, prayer and preaching, and to share in Holy Communion.

Although it is part of the larger All Souls Langham Place, All Souls Cleveland Street services follow a different sermon series. It is very much a local church, rather than the grander building in Langham Place which draws a much larger congregation from further afield.

The little upstairs chapel at Cleveland Street has been a special place for its small community. When it was refurbished in 1992 it received national recognition when Queen Elizabeth came to see it the following year and unveiled a plaque to mark the occasion.

All Souls Clubhouse was first set up as a charity in November 1958 as a “community-based Christian organisation working to enable and empower local people to address their social, educational, emotional, physical and spiritual needs”, states its annual report of 2019.

It carried out youth work, and provided a Church of England community centre serving local people in a neighbourhood that was “developing rapidly but which is still home to a less well-off and vulnerably-housed population of around 5,000 people, who are often forgotten behind the area’s increasingly wealthy facade”.

“Many experience loneliness, isolation, poverty, crime and racism. We serve those in greatest need, mostly living in council and rented accommodation,” states the report.

The All Souls Cleveland Street community church is attended by local Christians and “it works closely with the community centre and other churches to run local missions and holiday clubs as well as wider community activities”.

However, during 2019 All Souls Langham Place, following its governance re-structure, took on the financial responsibility of maintaining Clubhouse property, which meant bringing the maintenance of all of its buildings into a central department. “In order to help subsidise these costs, the Church also took on the management and income of the Clubhouse room rentals”, states the report.

All Souls Church also worked to set up a new governance framework for the Clubhouse charity and agreed to move from a charitable trust to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) called All Souls Serve The City (ASSTC).

The CIO was established on 1 January 2021 and the activities of All Souls Clubhouse (an unincorporated charity), together with two ministries from All Souls Church, Langham Place were transferred to it in order to better position the main charitable projects — known as ministries — for “the needs of the twenty-first century,” states the 2022 annual report for ASSTC.

“Typically, in any given week the ASSTC ministries have more contact with non-Christians than any other part of All Souls,” states the 2022 report.

The Clubhouse building is owned by the Parochial Church Council of All Souls Church, Langham Place which also has the power to appoint and remove several trustees of ASSTC.

ASSTC located at the Clubhouse will now focus on three ministries: Tamar, an outreach project to support sex workers; All Souls Local Action Network, a project that supports homeless people across the West End; and Senior Care, a project which provides for local older people and includes a regular Wednesday lunch club.

Schools Work, a fourth ministry, is currently paused while long-term funding is secured but there are plans to restart it when that funding is in place. All Souls continues to support the music department, school assemblies, holiday club and the board of governors at All Souls School, Foley Street. A youth club is also run at the Clubhouse.

Around 200 people attend the free English class each Friday at All Souls, Langham Place, which helps serve the many refugees now resident in Fitzrovia.

But from this summer the congregation of the community church at Clubhouse has known that its regular meetings would likely come to an end.

Between 15 and 30 people attend each Sunday morning but a change in the way All Souls Langham Place and ASSTC is run, the requirements of the charitable work, and a shrinking congregation at the Clubhouse makes continuing the church hidden behind a row of Georgian houses no longer viable.

Across the Church of England weekly attendance fell seven percent between 2016 and 2019 due to society becoming increasingly secular. The pandemic hastened this change as people sought to worship somewhere closer to home or attend a service by a church that offered online services.

But a 2022 report suggests that the decline is due to a lack of Sunday services being available at many churches, rather than a lack of people wanting to attend.

The small congregation at Clubhouse explored a number of options with All Souls to continue meeting. They could set up their own church, form a prayer group, form a fourth congregation, or join the main congregation at All Souls Langham Place.

Having ruled out the other options as unrealistic, it is the fourth option — joining All Souls Langham Place — that remains open.

Most of the congregation understand and accept with a sadness that the church services at Cleveland Street have had to come to an end. But they also see it as inevitable that many people will go their separate ways.

“We’ll be scattered to the four winds,” one long-time attendee said.

“Some will go to All Souls Langham Place, but many will seek out other churches in search of the special community they once had at Clubhouse.”

Indeed, many attendees live outside of Fitzrovia and have already moved onto other churches closer to home.

However, others have said privately that more could have been done to continue the distinct and long-standing congregation at the Clubhouse.

In 2022, Luke Ijaz, who had been Clubhouse Vicar since 2014, moved over to serve on the ministry team of All Souls, Langham Place. His role was filled at the Clubhouse by Jonathan Gillespie.

The Revd Gillespie, acting vicar at All Souls Cleveland Street, told Fitzrovia News that resolving to stop the services has been difficult but necessary.

“Reaching the decision together to close the congregation has been hard and yet we feel it is right.

“We’re really pleased that community outreach will continue from Clubhouse and All Souls remains committed to bringing the good news of Jesus to Fitzrovia. Everyone aged 11-18 is very welcome to join us in the Clubhouse each Friday between 7-9pm for youth club.”

The Ven Luke Miller, Archdeacon of London, told Fitzrovia News:

“The Clubhouse has been the host of many ministries over the years. Though we are sad to see the closure of the Clubhouse in its current form, its social ministries will continue through All Souls Serve The City, sharing the gospel, improving the lives of those on the margins of society, and building better relationships with social services and the police.”

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The vacant launderette shop unit at 86a-88 Cleveland Street could become yet another cafe. Photo: Fitzrovia News.

A vacant self-service laundry on Cleveland Street could be lost permanently as a community facility if Camden Council gives planning consent for it to be used as a cafe.

The launderette at 86a-88 Cleveland Street closed in February 2022 leaving those wanting to do their washing with no other option but to take a long walk out of the neighbourhood as there is no other facility nearby.

Now a planning application seeks permission to change it into a coffee shop — something Fitzrovia is not short of.

In policy terms launderettes are a “sui generis” use. In other words, they do not fall within a particular use class order. And planning permission is required to use the premises for something else.

The Cleveland Street “laundrette” shortly after it closed in February 2022. Photo: Fitzrovia News.

An application submitted last week by Kafi Ltd seeks permission to change the 97 square metre shop unit to “Class E”, which encompasses a number of uses including shops, banks, restaurants and cafes.

The applicant has an existing coffee shop on the southern part of Cleveland Street and wants to expand their business.

Camden’s planning policy is supposed to protect community uses such as launderettes, even if the premises is vacant so that another operator could come forward to provide a replacement business at the site.

“There is a small but important supply of launderettes in the Borough which help local communities to meet their day-to-day needs,” states Camden’s planning guidance for community uses.

“These valued facilities can provide an essential service for residents without access to a washing machine at home, including people living in temporary forms of accommodation. They can also be a useful resource for larger households and residents who share facilities, where the demand for washing facilities is greater.”

Camden’s policy also states that launderettes have a role in “supporting social interaction” and make “an important contribution to the character, function, vitality and viability” of shopping streets — referred to as “neighbourhood centres” in planning policy — such as Cleveland Street in Fitzrovia.

Cleveland Street between Maple Street and Warren Street has a parade of shop units providing a variety of services dotted along it, and also a number of cafes and restaurants.

“Where the loss of a launderette is proposed, the Council wishes to ensure that the impact on local residents is assessed, in particular the effect of the reduction in launderette facilities on the community,” states Camden’s guidance.

Fitzrovia has a resident population of around 8,000 in a mix of mostly self-contained, rented homes and a significant number of people do not have access to a washing machine. Before it closed the launderette at Cleveland Street had a steady flow of customers every day of the week.

National planning policy also states that planning decisions should guard against the unnecessary loss of valued facilities and services, especially where there are different population groups in the locality such as students and people sharing houses and flats and where there are transient populations.

Whether Camden’s planners will take any notice of any of that is anyone’s guess.

A public consultation on the planning application is open until 19 November 2023.

2023/3079/P86a-88 Cleveland Street London Camden W1T 6NJChange of use from launderette (Sui Generis) to coffee shop (Class E).REGISTERED20-10-2023Planning application.

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The laundrette on Cleveland Street has closed leaving a shop full of old machines, an interesting old sign, and a lot of disappointed locals.

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Noodle and Snack, 145 Cleveland Street is applying for a new premises licence. Photo: Fitzrovia News.

Tian Ying Ltd has applied to Westminster Council for a new premises licence at the ground floor and basement of 145 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia.

The application seeks permission for the sale of alcohol to drink on and off the premises from 10am to midnight, Monday to Saturday, and from 10am to 11.30pm on Sunday; and to serve late night refreshment until 30 minutes past midnight the following morning from Monday to Saturday, and until midnight on Sunday.

The business is described as a restaurant and applicant has offered a number of conditions in support of the application.

To view the details of the application and to make a comment, see the application on Westminster Council’s website.

23/07105/LIPN, 145 Cleveland Street London W1T 6QH.

A public consultation on the application is open until 14 November 2023.

Residents in the City of Westminster can make use of free advice from the Licensing Advice Project at Citizens Advice Westminster, and should also contact the Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association with any comments they wish to make.

Update, 14 January 2024. This application is due to be heard by Licensing Sub-Committee (4) – Thursday 18 January, 2024 at 10.00 am.

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23/07105/LIPN | Premises Licence - New | Pending Decision | 145 Cleveland Street London W1T 6QH

Passyunk Avenue, 80 Cleveland Street. Photo: Fitzrovia News.

A Philadelphia-themed restaurant and “dive bar” in Fitzrovia is seeking permission from the licensing authority for a series of all night events from 28 October to 5 November 2023.

Applicant John Paul Teti has submitted two temporary event notices (TENs) to Camden Council to cover a nine-day period of overnight events starting at one minute past midnight and finishing at 6am, at Passyunk Avenue, 80 Cleveland Street.

Passyunk already has a premises licence (PREM-LIC\086468) to sell alcohol from 11am to 11.30pm Monday to Thursday, 11am to midnight on Friday and Saturday, and 11am to 10.30pm on Sunday. This licence has a condition which requires that alcoholic drinks are only sold to customers seated and having a meal.

A TEN authorises one-off licensable activities on a premises, and might not have the same conditions attached as the premises licence.

TENs are not open to public consultation. However, Camden’s environmental health team and the police will check the application. If they object to an application, because they have concerns such as it could lead to a public nuisance to nearby residents, it then goes to a licensing panel hearing where conditions could be attached, or the application refused.

The details of the application are available to view on Camden’s Public Licensing Register by searching for the following references:

APP\TEN\117253: (28 to 29 October 2023); and APP\TEN\117254: (31 October to 5 November 2023). Passyunk Avenue, 80 Cleveland Street, London W1T 6NE.

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