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• Carnaby Street set for heritage makeover

  01-12-2025 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Soho’s Carnaby Street could get a bit of a makeover as the estate owners are consulting on plans.
  Early concept (c) Shaftesbury Capital
  The consultation proposes a general revamp of Carnaby Street and improvements to its links with the surrounding streets.  They want to create new wayfinding signs, change the lighting and increase the amount of planting in the area.
  The main change is likely to be the pavement though, as they propose removing the existing artificial stone paving and r
  
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• Borehamwood set for major new museum honouring EastEnders, Star Wars and Hitchcock

  01-12-2025 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A museum of TV and film history could open on the edge of North London, after the local council offered £2 million towards the cost of building it.
  Stormtrooper Parade at Elstree Studios 2021 (c) Elstree Studios
  The museum, with the somewhat long-winded name of the “Elstree Immersive Experience and Borehamwood & Elstree Film and TV Heritage Centre”, would open in Borehamwood, which has long been home to a number of historic TV and film studios.
  According to the organiser&he
  
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• The Gingerbread City returns with real architecture baked in icing and imagination

  01-12-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Once upon a time, a wicked witch lived in a house built entirely from bread, cake and sugar — and now whole towns of the stuff have sprung up in London.
  This is the annual Gingerbread City, and it’s not just a festive sprawl of icing and sprinkles, but a showcase of genuine architectural ideas, all realised in gingerbread by actual architects.Threaded between the sweets and gummy bears, the biscuits and fondant façades, are explorations of how real-world places might evol
  
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• Patrick Drahi’s ‘super aggressive’ asset move hits Altice International bonds

  01-12-2025 12:21
  Franco-Israeli tycoon has locked horns with creditors over debt-laden telecoms empire
  
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• Empty trains to Euston highlight why scrapping HS2 to Manchester makes no sense

  01-12-2025 12:12 via ianvisits.co.uk
  UPDATE – the regulator has reversed its decision.
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  If you wanted an example of why the UK needs to build HS2, look to the news that a rush-hour train will travel from Manchester to London but can’t carry passengers.In the upcoming railway timetable change on 15th December, Avanti West Coast’s 7am service from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston will cease to carry passengers. The service, which is quite busy as it’s timetabled to arrive in London just before 9am
  
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• London’s Alleys: Victoria Place, Richmond, TW9

  01-12-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is an old alley in Richmond town centre that underwent a major change in 1909.Victoria Place is an alley that leads off busy George Street, lined with shops, and was originally a short, dead-end alley offering access to the backs of shops and houses. That was the northern end of the alley, and the southern side was filled with tenement housing and warehouses, which, by the end of the 19th century, were in poor condition.
  OS Map 1894
  In 1905, Richmond Council wanted to clear away the slums a
  
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