US Hampstead to get new police station as Boris Johnson closes station in Camden
Hampstead police station in Rosslyn Hill. - Credit: submitted
Boris Johnson may have put paid to hopes of any future for Hampstead police station last week – but across the Atlantic residents of an entirely different Hampstead received news that a brand new police station will be built in their town.
London Mayor Boris Johnson. - Credit: Archant
Last Thursday, as the Ham&High reported the Mayor of London’s decision to close Hampstead police station, The Eagle-Tribune told quite a different tale.
The daily newspaper, serving residents of Hampstead, in New Hampshire, America, reported that officials from the town in Rockingham County hoped to see a new police station “ready by spring”.
It followed a vote last month from Hampstead residents, which had a population of 8,523 in 2010, in support of proposals to build a taxpayer-funded $1.63million station to replace the town’s current police base.
According to The Eagle-Tribune the new station is estimated to be “three times bigger” than the current one, built in 1948, and equipped with cells, a training room and women’s locker rooms.
It is enough to make campaigners back in London, keen to see the century-old station in Rossyln Hill saved for police use, green with envy.
But Belsize Conservative councillor Jonny Bucknell has not lost all hope and thinks a vote on keeping the police station open – like the poll of residents in New Hampshire - would be a good idea.
Most Read
- 1 Barnet: Three arrested as victim of fatal stabbing named
- 2 Spurs survive 'Lasagna-gate 2' and it's over to Arsenal
- 3 Man in his 30s stabbed to death
- 4 West Hampstead woman's kids' clothes success story
- 5 Motorcyclist injured in Highgate Hill collision
- 6 Hampstead pharmacy under investigation over extra charges for prescriptions
- 7 'The law isn't important to us': Car tyres deflated by activists in Camden
- 8 St John's Wood nursery 'requires improvement' after surprise Ofsted visit
- 9 Beloved father choked to death on cauliflower after Highgate Care Home 'neglect'
- 10 'Lianne La Havas gets big love from Koko crowd'
“I can understand where Boris is coming from – he has to make savings,” he said. “But I think a referendum for residents would be worthwhile. I hope there is still time to twist Boris’s arm on this.”
