Works to Camden Road
You’ll no doubt have seen some of the signage springing up along Camden Road advising of the forthcoming road closure and parking suspensions required to facilitate some planned highways works. Works are due...
Category: Campaign
Camden doesn’t get a ‘Liveable Neighbourhood’ – initially, at least.
Our bid was: “too complex and to pose too many challenges to be included in the phase 1 programme as a complete project”. Cynical as it may sound, it is difficult not to...
Camden’s sitting ducks
So the saga continues… Another car damage episode this morning to the car of one of our new residents and new committee member. For those of us who’ve endured speeding, contention and just...
Day 1 of the Clean Air Zone
The new signage was unveiled last night, ready for the morning peak traffic. Three of us from the CRA were there to see the early morning response from drivers and we were met...
Three things this week
1. 20 mph on Lansdown Road Our next door residents association, the Lansdown Crescent Association, are confounded by a Council decision to favour certain radial routes into the city with 20 mph restrictions...
Making Camden more cycle-able
Many houses on our streets have long steep steps down to very narrow pavements which are close to our busy and dangerous road. Bringing a bike down to the roadside is pretty hazardous....
The Clean Air Zone explained
The first of a slight flurry of posts – hold onto your seats! A happier new year to all readers. As these red early warning signs get revealed the residents’ association is getting...
Upper Camden at the ‘virtual VAG’
This meticulous watercolour by Glyn Davies is from this year’s annual Bath Society of Artists exhibition which is usually held at the Victoria Art Gallery (VAG) for five or six weeks during the...
Local Hero
Many thanks to Bath Newseum for running this story this morning. Kenny is a cricket coach and loving volunteer who has been tending to the artist-inspired rusty planters on the city end of...
Coming through your letterbox this week…
Further to last week’s post on the Council’s Liveable Neighbourhoods initiative which is now very much underway we’re delivering a two page bulletin on what it might mean for the Camden area. This...