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TOTAL BAN ON BOOZE
STREET drinking is to be banned throughout Camden under radical new plans being hammered out at the Town Hall.
Tough tactics to squeeze out nuisance drinkers will see the entire borough being turned into a Controlled Drinking Zone (CDZ).
Police will gain discretionary powers to confiscate alcohol and pour booze down the drain.
Drinkers who refuse to hand over their beer could face arrest and a night in the cells.
A pilot scheme has so far been restricted to Camden Town and thin strips of Kentish Town but the new measures will affect every single street in the borough.
 
 
DUNCES
PLANS for a controversial city academy on the site of a primary school descended into farce this week with the very real possibility the project could be postponed by a year.
Planning permission for the Diocese of London-sponsored academy was quashed in the High Court on Wednesday.
This is because the Town Hall forgot to ask English Heritage to comment on the plans for the academy, which have caused a bitter division in the community. English Heritage must be consulted on any plans which affect a conservation zone.
This, however, means that the deadline imposed by the schools adjudicator for planning permission to be granted – September 30 – is technically missed by six weeks. The planning process must therefore start from scratch and the schools adjudicator must again consider the scheme.
 
 
£580K MARKET SCHEME FLOP
CITY Hall wasted nearly £600,000 of taxpayers money on its binned scheme to redevelop Berwick Street, uncovered papers reveal.
And the Labour opposition at Westminster Council has called for an inquiry.
Following a Freedom of Information request made by the West End Extra asking how much was spent on the redevelopment, the council has admitted it spent £580,000 on consultants, architects, designers and planners.
The scheme was thrown out by the council’s planning committee in July – who described it as “a disgraceful application” – following stinging criticism from residents and businesses.



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