Arlington House hostel in Camden Town has only 17 baths available for the use of nearly 1000 men who stay there each night and is overcrowded by an excess of 470 beds. Only 174 of the hostel s 1,066 rooms comply with space standards laid down by Camden Co
Arlington House hostel in Camden Town has only 17 baths available for the use of nearly 1000 men who stay there each night and is overcrowded by an excess of 470 beds. Only 174 of the hostel's 1,066 rooms comply with space standards laid down by Camden Council.
The former John Barnes department store building in Finchley Road has been sold. A new store will open there and the Waitrose supermarket and part of the first floor have been leased back to John Lewis.
Camden could face widespread rent strikes following a reluctant decision to increase rents by an average of 25 per cent, as required by the Tory government.
The Round House in Chalk Farm Road has applied for permission to site 14 stalls outside its front entrance as a weekend market, although the council has already ordered it to remove existing stalls.
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