TVC News Limited has applied to Camden Council for a new premises licence at Farmer Cafe, 35 Conway Street, on the corner of Warren Street in Fitzrovia.

The application seeks permission for a number of licensable activities, including the sale of alcohol to drink on and off the premises from 8am to 10pm every day of the week.

The business is described as a cafe and bar with a ground floor and outdoor seating area. Activities on offer include music and dancing, exhibitions, board games, and the screening of films.

Proposed hours of opening are: 8am to 10pm every day of the week; and until 11pm from July to the end of October on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, states the application.

To view the details of the application and make a comment, search Camden’s public licensing register for the following reference:

APP\PREMISES-NEW\120941, Farmer Cafe, 35 Conway Street, London W1T 6BW.

A public consultation on the application is open until 10 June 2024.

Residents in Camden may also contact the Charlotte Street Association for help and advice in responding to planning and licensing applications.

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Innpacked Ltd has submitted a licensing application to Camden Council for a “minor variation” of the existing premises licence at 365 Euston Road, on the corner with Conway Street, Fitzrovia to enable alcohol to be consumed at a proposed new children’s centre.

The application, made by an agent, seeks permission for a change in the layout of the premises and a change in the business to a children’s centre. There will be no changes to the licensable activities nor the licensable times.

The existing licence has allows the sale of alcohol for consumption on the premises. A condition states: “Alcoholic beverages shall only be supplied to customers by waiter / waitress service and ancillary to a plated meal with the exception of the bar area which has the maximum capacity of 20 people.”

Fitzrovia News understands that the application has been accepted as a minor variation as there is no extension or expansion to the licensable area. Minor variations are decided by licensing officers, not a licensing panel.

To view the details of the application and make a comment, search Camden’s public licensing register for the following reference:

APP\PREMISES-MVARY\115215, 365 Euston Road, London NW1 3AR.

A public consultation on the application is open until 22 June 2003.

Fitzrovia News will be publishing more information about this application after we have contacted the applicant and Camden Council for comment.

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Back again. Scenes for a film about Amy Winehouse will be shot in Fitzroy Square. Photo: Fitzrovia News.

Film crews will descend on the northern part of Fitzrovia this week to shoot scenes for an Amy Winehouse biopic. They have promised to keep disruption to a minimum.

Starcross Films Ltd have written to residents and business owners to warn them of some disturbance from Monday 13 to Saturday 18 March as they set up, shoot scenes, then dismantle equipment for filming in and around 6 Fitzroy Square.

The film called Back to Black is about the last ten years of Winehouse’s life and has the backing and permission of her family, states a letter dropped through people’s doors.

A map shows locations of “technical vehicles” in more than 30 suspended parking bays at Fitzroy Street, Conway Street, Warren Street, Cleveland Street, New Cavendish Street and Great Portland Street. A generator is also to be positioned on Grafton Way at the corner with Fitzroy Square.

“We will personally be on site when filming and as with all filming, there may be a level of disruption, which we can successfully minimise with relevant information ahead of time, and endeavour to make this a positive experience for the community,” write location managers, Adam Sharp and Sam Seccombe.

Filming in Fitzrovia, and elsewhere in Camden, has been a bugbear of local residents with some crews using noisy and polluting diesel or petrol generators often dumped outside people’s homes.

In September last year Camden Film Office had to take action to remove noisy and polluting power generators and equipment outside of homes in Warren Street after they received complaints of late night and early morning nuisance by a film production company.

In May a film production company apologised to residents and businesses for the disruption caused by filming on Tottenham Street and Whitfield Street.

Film Fixer runs the Film Office on behalf of Camden Council and they claim to be mindful of the negative environmental impacts of filming due to the multiple use of generators.

“The Film Fixer contract working on behalf of Camden ensures positive mitigation as part of their license agreements with film makers,” states a council report.

“They have a strong environmental policy and evidence that their advice and contract for filming operations are performed in a way that minimises environmental impact. They have founded the Generator Project that ensures clean air thinking is part of all Film shoots in Camden.”

But whether this “thinking” is put into “practice”, is another matter. It is Camden, after all.

Preparation is due to take place between 8am and 6pm from Monday 13 to Wednesday 15 March; filming from 7am to 8pm Thursday 16 and Friday 17 March; removal from 8am to 6pm on Saturday 18 March.

For the Winehouse filming, Sharp and Seccombe say they can be contacted by telephone on 07971 474 043 or by emailing [email protected] if local people have any questions about the filming.

Camden Film Office is authorised by Camden Council to manage filming in the borough and they can be contacted on 020 7620 0391 (07919 002 115 which is a 24-hour number) or contacted by emailing [email protected] to deal with any concerns about the filming.

More information: copy of letter sent to residents; location map.

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Camden Council is removing the outside eating and drinking enclosure in Conway Street but making permanent the facility in Whitfield Street, in a decision taken as a result of public consultations and trials of the schemes.

A council report on the decision taken in December states that the “streatery” schemes at Conway Street and Whitfield Street in Fitzrovia were introduced on a trial basis under an Experimental Traffic Order (ETO) in July 2021 as part of a wider scheme to support the hospitality sector across the borough.

A public consultation between 12 November and 4 December 2022, ongoing “feedback received during the trials”, and council officers’ recommendations informed the decision, states the report.

The streatery schemes were enabled in during 2020 when the Government introduced a temporary, fast-track, cheaper pavement licence (PVL) for businesses to put tables and chairs on the public highway for outdoor eating and drinking while social distancing rules limited indoor seating.

The legislation initially ran until 30 September 2021 but has twice been extended with the most recent to 30 September 2023.

Camden has delivered three tranches of streateries as temporary or trial measures. The first tranche was implemented in 2020, using Temporary Traffic Orders (TTOs) as approved by the director of environment and sustainability in consultation with Cllr Adam Harrison, the cabinet member for a sustainable Camden.

These covered multiple businesses in Goodge Street, Warren Street, Cleveland Street and Charlotte Street in Fitzrovia. The second phase was delivered in May 2021, also using TTOs, at South Crescent, off Store Street. A third tranche was approved at the end of June 2021 for Conway Street and Whitfield Street, using an Experimental Traffic Order (ETO) for up to 18 months, until 7 January 2023.

The streateries require both a traffic order to occupy space in the carriageway and a pavement licence (PVL) for businesses to use the space for customers to sit. Businesses also require a premises licence to serve alcohol.

Camden says the streateries contribute to the health of high streets, economic recovery, and create destinations for residents and visitors to meet and socialise, contributing to community and street life.

The council says there is widespread support for retaining the streateries, despite concerns about customers drinking alcohol outside causing a noise nuisance for residents living nearby, blocking footways, and the removal of kerbside loading space making deliveries difficult. Many residents are also concerned about the increase in the number premises in Fitzrovia licensed to serve alcohol.

At Whitfield Street the streatery in front of Gig’s restaurant will now being retained permanently following a majority of responses to the public consultation in support of it.

“The restaurant trading at the streatery strongly agrees with the proposal, commenting that their business may not have survived without a streatery, and stating that this now complements the wider benefits promoted by the West End Project,” says the consultation report.

The Fitzrovia Partnership Business Improvement District responded in favour of the proposals, stating that the streatery is well-maintained and adds beauty and greenery to the area and benefits the local economy.

The Charlotte Street Association residents’ group objected to the streatery raising concerns about potential noise nuisance from customers drinking outside. They also stated that there is a “shortage of loading bays and delivery drivers would park illegally. The proposal would not address the issues of through traffic, nuisance and road danger from motor vehicles. They would rather see safer and green streets than beer gardens for the benefit of businesses,” stated the report.

Council officers responded saying they are “not aware of reports of excessive noise at this location” but will continue to monitor the site and undertake enforcement action if necessary.

In response to concerns about lack of loading and illegal parking, there is a single dedicated loading bay on Tottenham Street, and deliveries are permitted in the residents’ bays, 20 metres north of thestreatery, on Whitfield Street.

“Streateries are not a road safety or traffic reduction programme,” state council officers and “further greening of the street scene can be considered if funding becomes available”, stated the report.

Outside the Lore of the Land pub in Conway Street, the streatery drew complaints about drinkers blocking the footway and causing a noise nuisance.

A “small majority” of respondents to the consultation objected to the streatery. The responses were split with residents largely against, while visitors and people working in the area in favour. The business trading at the streatery did not respond to the consultation.

Noise and blocking of the footway by large crowds outside the pub were the main concerns. “The comments suggest that noise and anti social behaviour have always been concerns but the streatery exacerbates the problems, enabling more people to use the space,” states the report.

When council officers visited the premises they found that the outside seating area was not being used as intended and the business had not obtained the correct paperwork to use the streatery.

The streatery at Conway Street will now be removed.

Rather confusingly, the since all the streateries implemented by this current phase are enabled under a single traffic order, “no one site can be considered unilaterally and any decision to let the ETO expire would affect all streatery sites”.

Council officers will now make all the streatery locations permanent on expiry of the ETO in January but there will be a further Traffic Management Order (TMO) consultation with the proposal to reinstate Conway Street and Grafton Way to their previous layouts and remove the streatery space.

Camden Council decision: Phase 6 Streateries Programme: Supporting the Hospitality Sector.

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Owners of a new “destination restaurant” set to open in a former studio and showroom on Euston Road are hoping the stars will be aligned and they can work with residents living above the premises, and nearby, who have voiced concerns about potential public nuisance from its operation.

Asian restaurant and bar Orion’s Belt has been given a licence by Camden Council, after a hearing on 5 January, for “on sales” of alcohol at 365 Euston Road in a large two-storey space backing onto Warren Street.

Orion’s Belt Limited applied last year to sell alcohol for consumption on the premises from noon to 11pm every day of the week. The new restaurant is expected to have a capacity of up to 200 customers.

Twenty-three representations originally opposed the application, including the Environmental Health responsible authority, the Police responsible authority, a local councillor, and a residents’ association.

Nineteen residents from Warren Street and Conway Street wrote to Camden Council about the application objecting to the proposal and expressing concern about noise nuisance from the premises, cooking smells, and extra traffic generated by customers using taxis and mini-cabs.

Some were concerned about possible increases in crime in the area and the cumulative negative impact of yet another premises serving alcohol, causing a change in the character to this part of Fitzrovia where a great many people live.

The Police responsible ruthority wrote to say the applicant “should be aware of the potential for thefts against customers by crime groups” who target public houses and restaurants, and warned about disorder from “intoxicated revellers”.

They subsequently withdrew their objection after the applicant agreed to a number of crime prevention measures to be implemented.

The Environmental Health responsible authority made an objection, raising concerns about the operation of the restaurant and asking for a number of additional conditions to control deliveries, waste disposal, and management of customers. These conditions were agree and the objection was also withdrawn.

They also raised the issue of how fumes would be extracted from the kitchen and informed the applicant that a planning application would be needed for the installation of any mechanical plant.

Councillor Adam Harrison (Bloomsbury ward) expressed his concerns about the application and the potential impact on local residents.

“This is quite a sizeable unit, taking up much of one block and also comprising two floors, with the second being completely under licensed use if granted,” he wrote.

“The size presents a risk of large numbers of people gathering in this less commercial part of Warren Street (certainly less commercial in terms of hospitality venues).

“As well as the noise outside I would also be concerned about noise transference from the premises up into the residential properties above.

“The use is also likely (despite its very well connected location) to attract taxis and other vehicles, increasing traffic, pollution, noise at this location where little existed before,” he wrote.

The Charlotte Street Association, which reviews all licensing applications on behalf of residents, wrote in to detail their concerns.

“Warren Street and this immediate vicinity has one of the highest concentrations of residents in Fitzrovia, and is part of the long established residential community,” they said.

“It needs to be appreciated that these premises were previously offices or showroom, and thus, from the residents point of view in terms of quietness, were generally not used in evenings, or Sundays and Public Holiday days.”

They argued that the application should be refused. But if Camden were to allow it then extra conditions were needed to protect the quality of life of residents living above and in the nearby streets. They stressed the need to ensure the venue operates as a restaurant and not a bar.

The team behind the new eatery wrote to residents ahead of the licensing hearing to say that “Orion’s Belt will be an upmarket restaurant and not a bar or a takeaway”, with a maximum of 150 to 200 diners at any time.

“Despite the size of the premises, I do not wish to have a large number of patrons attending, the space will be open plan with a relaxed atmosphere” and “I am dedicated to preserving the quiet enjoyment residents have of their homes,” wrote a director of the company.

They said they want to work with residents, including those who live above the restaurant, to ensure they are not affected.

At the hearing, two residents addressed the panel to say they were worried about noise intruding into their homes from the activities of the restaurant including rubbish removal, customers leaving after 11pm and from drivers dropping people off and picking them up.

One resident highlighted concerns about security and was worried about customers having access to a residential staircase which is shared by the premises as an emergency exit.

Edith Lake, acting as an agent for the restaurant, said there are no plans for takeaways and there will not be any motorbike couriers congregating outside.

She told the licensing panel: “It’s a destination restaurant for people to eat at, and the management has been very careful and has a sensitive approach.”

People waiting for a table will be asked to wait inside and will be seated quickly. Those wanting a taxi will also be asked to stay indoors until it arrives to minimise disruption in the street.

Lake said people will be asked to leave via Euston Road and the communal staircase would only ever be used in an emergency if designated by a fire risk assessment. “We would be really quite strict about that,” she said.

Rubbish will be dealt with inside the restaurant; “bottling out”, or putting bottles out for collection, would not be later than 6.30pm. And there will be new soundproofing installed, she said.

The Charlotte Street Association told the licensing panel that it is “an unusually large restaurant” and that residents would suffer noise nuisance which they previously would not have been subjected to.

Lake said the applicants have set out a detailed dispersal policy and said they “recognise the importance of clearing the immediate vicinity of the licensed premises at the end of the evening, making sure that all our customers leave without causing disturbance or any other disorder.”

Customers will be banned from taking alcohol or glass away and the bar will stop serving 30 minutes before closing. People will be encouraged to leave gradually over that time.

“Customers will be asked to respect the neighbours and leave the venue in a quiet and responsible fashion.”

Signs will remind them and  “any customers found loitering outside the premises will be asked politely to leave quietly.”

Camden’s Licencing Panel A — Cllr Shah Miah (chair), CllrSharron Hardwich, and Cllr Izzy Lenga — in their discussion before making a decision expressed concern that there was no seating plan submitted as part of the application, particularly as it was a large space which had the potential be noisy, especially directly below a large resident block.

However, they considered any noise would be minimised if the premises adhered to the proposed conditions, along with the applicant’s declared willingness to spend money on soundproofing.

They considered that the applicants had responded to concerns from residents and the responsible authorities to keep noise to a minimum. The fact that the menu was expensive and that there was an expectation for all patrons to be seated and taking a meal — except for 20 customers around a bar area — demonstrated that the premises would not be operate as a bar or pub, they concluded.

They reached a decision to approve the new licence but said it must close at 10.30pm on Sundays, rather than 11pm as requested, and attached a number of additional conditions to the licence, including dispersing customers leaving on foot along Euston Road and not Warren Street.

Licensing Panel A, Thursday, 5 January 2023, 7.00 pm – Camden Council.

Additional reporting by Linus Rees.

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Orion’s Belt Limited has applied to Camden Council for a new premises licence at Unit 2, 365 Euston Road, Fitzrovia.

Unit 2 extends over half the ground floor, and the whole of the first floor which also fronts onto Conway Street and 41 Warren Street.

The applicant describes the business as an “Asian Restaurant Bar” but incorrectly describes its location as a “Shopping/commercial area” — there are homes above the premises and opposite in Warren Street.

Permission is sought for the sale of alcohol for consumption on the premises from 12noon to 11pm every day of the week. A number of conditions have been offered in support of the application.

To view the details of the application and make a comment, search Camden’s public licensing register for the following reference:

APP\PREMISES-NEW\112445, 365 Euston Road, London NW1 3AR.

A public consultation on the application is open until 24 November 2022.

Residents in Camden may also contact the Charlotte Street Association for help and advice in responding to planning and licensing applications.

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