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‘Unfit’ police station to be closed after three-year fight
A PLAN to close Hampstead Police Station has emerged just three years after campaigners last fought to secure its survival.
Furious residents are now preparing to battle again with Camden Police chief Mark Heath to safeguard the grade-II listed building in Rosslyn Hill (pictured) after the cost-cutting plan was exposed.
Rumours of the proposal – part of a London-wide review of police property – had spread late last week and on Monday night Chief Superintendent Heath confirmed them.
Speaking to a packed, fractious meeting of the Camden Police Community Consultative Group at Conway Hall, Holborn, he said that the police station was “from another era and unfit for the purpose”, adding: “It looks fantastic from the outside but the inside is awful for modern policing – it’s just not useable at the moment.”
 
CABBIE KO’D BY £31K BILL
AN 82-year-old Clerkenwell “service charge martyr” is threatening to go to prison rather than pay a £31,000 contribution for repairs to his Grade II* listed estate.
Retired London cabbie and great grandfather Stephen Murphy got the shock of his life when Homes for Islington (HfI) – the privatised housing arm of Islington Council – sent him a bill for repairs to Spa Green Estate in Rosebery Avenue, opposite Sadler’s Wells.
He is one of 41 leaseholders, out of nearly 200 flats, hit by huge bills for a programme of new windows and repairs to the roof at the late 1940s estate created by Berthold Lubetkin (1901-1990), the celebrated modernist architect who designed London Zoo’s penguin pool. At the same time the 129 council tenants, who make up the majority on the estate, get the work done free.
 
HIPPO IN FIGHT FOR ITS LIFE
EXECUTIVES from one of the West End’s most famous night clubs are to launch a legal challenge against City Hall’s decision to strip it of its licence.
Cirque at the Hippodrome, in Leicester Square, became the only venue to have a conversion licence under the new Licensing Act refused by Westminster Council following warnings by the police that “fatalities could occur”.
The police produced pages and pages of evidence to the committee on Monday morning with details of more than 100 incidents they claimed were connected to the club including a shooting.
But the club’s managers have claimed the evidence is “unfounded” and “not accurate”.
The club is now planning to submit a new application while seeking to overturn the decision in the magistrates court and the high court. But if they fail the club will close for good on November 24.



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