Following a vociferous campaign by residents of the Crown Estate and their local Labour MP and councillors, the battle to stop the sell off the Cumberland Market Estate in Regents Park ward has received a boost from the influential Treasury Committee of the House of Commons. 

Tulip Siddiq, Frank Dobson MP, Cllr Heather Johnson and Cllr Nasim Ali show their backing for local residents

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Camden Labour is supporting the Crown tenants in their campaign to prevent their landlord, the Crown Commissioners, from selling off their homes to a speculative developer. The proposal involves 539 units of social housing in Regents Park Ward. Many of the residents are elderly and have Rent Act protected tenancies. More recently, flats have been allocated to “key workers” under assured shorthold tenancies.

Local residents, Mary and Bill Greenleaf with Cllr Heather Johnson, Frank Dobson MP and Cllr Nasim Ali

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Regent’s Park councillors and Action Team members are taking a firm stance on the Northern Line closures. It has been reported that the Northern Line will be closed for 82 weekends. Last week Action Team member Tulip Siddiq wrote a letter to the CNJ demanding that Camden Council start to lobby Transport for London properly about these closures. It will severely impact the lives of Regent’s Park residents who regularly use Mornington Crescent tube for their main method of transportation.

Councillor and Leader of the Labour Group Nasim Ali has also voiced his concerns about this closure. Regent’s Park will be exerting more pressure on Camden Council to take action on this inconvenient proposal.

Right: local campaigner, Tulip Siddiq

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Cllr Theo Blackwell, Tulip Siddiq, Ciaran Henderson and Sabrina Francis outside the old Albany Street Post Office

Good news for Regent’s Park ward!  thanks to pressure from local people, the Post Office have agreed to the opening of a new branch on Albany Street in February, after a short consultation process, just yards away from the old one!

The new Post Office will be open longer on Saturdays and will mean that people will not have to travel up to the crowded Camden Town branch anymore.  We will have a neighbourhood branch again.

The Regent’s Park Labour Action Team, who pressured Camden Council and government ministers to re-open a branch, would like to thank all local people who took the time to write in and make their views heard, and the Post Office officials we have been in touch with since for listening.

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