Camden’s Cabinet, on Wednesday 28 February, agreed to approve, adopt and implement a strategy and action plan for the Evening and Night-Time in Camden.The strategy establishes a vision to make Camden a welcoming, safe and inclusive place to spend time in the evening and night-time.Key recommendations of the strategy include:<ul><li>Create an evening and night panel for Camden.</li><li>Work with local business groups to promote family friendly and inclusive, non-alcohol-led experiences in the early evening.</li><li>Promote recreation and wellbeing in the evening and night-time and use meanwhile opportunities to create safe, fun and inclusive recreational resources.</li><li>Develop a business rates discount scheme to support grassroots music venues and Camden's cultural legacy.</li><li>Implement a Licensing Charter to complement our Statement of Licensing Policy, setting standards of best practice and incentivising good management in the evening and night-time.</li><li>Investing more money in cleaning of high streets at night and increasing the coordination of how we manage night-time hotspots.</li><li>Pilot night and evening markets.</li></ul>The strategy also reinforces our key objective to address issues relating to the experiences of women travelling through the borough, particularly at night, to make them feel safer in Camden and to ensure that if they do suffer harassment or abuse, there are resources available to them to report these incidents.It also takes into consideration the recommendations of our Diversity in the Public Realm Strategy by seeking to promote inclusion and bring new audiences into the public realm and to use services and access culture at night.We undertook extensive public engagement between October 2022 to March 2023, reaching around 1,600 people either through feedback on our Commonplace website or attending one of eight area-based or thematic workshops which gathered insight on the evening and night-time.We also held a Citizens Assembly to help develop the strategy with residents, visitors, night-workers and businesses. The assemblies were focussed on ways of improving Camden at night and ways to support local businesses to thrive.<a href="https://camdenente.commonplace.is/proposals/camdens-evening-and-night-time-strategy/step1">Read the Strategy here</a>&nbsp;

Camden Evening and Night-Time Strategy Published

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1701337905/projects/camdenente/e429e5ca-197c-4988-9e54-ff92d65ccfae.jpg" /> Camden’s evening and late-night economy is the UK’s sixth largest, with 113,700 jobs, and attracts visitors to areas including Camden Town and Covent Garden. The borough is home to seven per cent of London’s key cultural venues, including music venues Koko and the Electric Ballroom, and the Etcetera Theatre in Camden High Street. Last week, at a full council meeting at Camden Council, we discussed how our evening and night-time offer must adapt to survive and thrive. A key part of this was reviewing the findings of the Citizen Assembly, which took place earlier this year to examine this issue. <a href="https://www.civico.net/camden/18244-Council">You can see the papers and link to the video broadcast of the session here</a> Camden Council actively uses Citizen Assemblies to look at important issues – like our local action against the climate crisis. They bring together a representative range of our residents, industry experts and key partners to create recommendations on a way forward. The Assembly’s report, which you can read <a href="https://camdenente.commonplace.is/en-GB/news/rep">here</a>, sets some bold ambitions. It acknowledges the range of measures which will need to be in place to achieve this – from well-judged licensing right through to better transport and toilet provision. The Assembly’s recommendations will be the bedrock of our emerging evening and night-time strategy and updated licencing policy which will be consulted on in the coming months. The council debate heard from seven speakers from community, local venues, citizens’ assembly members, the Music Venues Alliance and the Mayor of London’s Night Czar, Amy Lamé. A lively debate discussed how to protect venues, what good practice looks like for licensed premises, how women’s safety can be improved and the welfare of workers. Summing up the council debate, Cllr Beales, Cabinet Member for New Homes, Jobs and Investment made the following points that will inform the strategy work and our refresh of Camden’s Statement of Licensing Policy: •	Our Strategy has to be delivered in partnership between businesses and residents and be data led in developing interventions. •	Our policies on Assets of Community Value and upholding the Agent of Change principle have yielded results – like the Black Cap – but our licensing policies need reviewing to be more flexible in approach and rigorous in setting and holding licensees to high standards. •	The strategy must address the safety and ease of getting to and from a night out or a night shift and those who work at night have the same good work standards as those working during the day. •	Finally, we can’t lose sight of the creativity of bringing people together to solve problems, we will set up a ‘residents panel’ for the night time and a licensing charter will govern good outcomes from licensed premises.

Camden citizens assembly proposals for night-time economy debated at full council

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1701274114/projects/camdenente/0968855a-b9a6-4eca-8208-3067ac07f5ed.jpg" /> Our neighbouring borough Westminster have launched a consultation platform on their proposal to create an inclusive Evening and Night-time Plan to improve the night-time scene in Westminster. As part this, Westminster City Council is hosting an Evening and Night-time Stakeholder Assembly. The Assembly will be a space where residents, businesses, and visitors can come together to share their perspectives, ideas, and concerns. The Assembly sessions will take place on Saturday 27th January, 3rd February and 10th February 2024 between around 10 am – 4pm in a central Westminster location. Individuals that take part will receive a gift of thanks worth £250. &#39;Let&#39;s make the evening and night-time experience in Westminster even better, together!&#39; To find out more ways in which you can get involved <a href="https://westminsterafterdark.commonplace.is/?utm_campaign=new_commonplaces&amp;utm_source=cp-email&amp;utm_medium=email">click here</a>! You can: •	<a href="https://url9737.commonplace.is/ls/click?upn=nSX9oJDE2dLgmKTcQYJRqpJUEX4IeSdQ6p-2BYyHc72PYm5vPitf0rgANmt4uSPvOfiYCNe2Djh7uM5t-2B8yvo24S3f12RIM47qG8qjcQ-2FAtWieti8khtteNKbxi21QyGL-2FmwlRlGodYB46Io-2FoPP3HXOBbIEyIIqQ-2FkKfUGERaeWzT-2BKVlrOHe37HOVx7TQb8GPnv-2FYmbMEp0XkpjFeAg-2FNQ-3D-3DH9Jq_I2X4t4CHZ267nlVjVFcg9HzSpvTyPPBPq9jd5echooFchDkK85ttYA2EeujxOVZPhdEK-2BxNk-2F3KUNVS07qQTcnsYjuTfe1kLl0H9MrHzwaGTvQ3f0yoGJ3O9C9u2OBKyL1sZGniipTOwE7TdE-2Fk8gITeuHfNkFC9n9K732Dw9u2YwktyqLr2DvpTi8fr50LZAU74PPbmoq3PxsJaOPapC0-2B35ozgqWKPfXzn1-2FY2Kp4AMd6fG28tH0VkELR3orhj8rvCdTkL8ZgQYpcWgf3AaCHD-2FI6Kz4yAno-2BiY7LqmPJHSZME4TMtHDay4-2Furst6QV93rstIQgMAv-2F5dsTDxIzgC9goY8f8V6JdnoV7uJlKHDTNM0-2BVPx7JyMqSKV5h-2FuQjskdpq30XVgbVpnckqJWbDOswb-2Bl89tJkP6-2BCypcOa4guFgy1nJ3JyMDIhq2-2B4T">Complete a short 3-minute public survey</a>. •	<a href="https://url9737.commonplace.is/ls/click?upn=nSX9oJDE2dLgmKTcQYJRqpJUEX4IeSdQ6p-2BYyHc72PYm5vPitf0rgANmt4uSPvOftMpEpOOm4xhJNYLRIp1TbAmvHjliZyF1lDEYeBi8SbwRLfu686CyO7mfcxGDNeGcDmHW6iWGHQDbv7J6JMovnxM8VHCw-2Fh160FublxpKJDtXYiuOOkLn6-2Fm8-2BO1QK2hrGZxTLefSxwLs5cFyS0ECg2rHFp0lotkEwwi7z2XQA9A-3DE8OW_I2X4t4CHZ267nlVjVFcg9HzSpvTyPPBPq9jd5echooFchDkK85ttYA2EeujxOVZPhdEK-2BxNk-2F3KUNVS07qQTcnsYjuTfe1kLl0H9MrHzwaGTvQ3f0yoGJ3O9C9u2OBKyL1sZGniipTOwE7TdE-2Fk8gITeuHfNkFC9n9K732Dw9u2YwktyqLr2DvpTi8fr50LZH0Yy-2FEHOuRXAYQCmqMzcW8VOGhM-2BUzw8z-2FqkwHCiwJVNrOlxAAvwTqmKyyfqSZaLnk3LqRRKbQXNdNii8NZ-2BdmYh4YpsMizFm3VCBHPYv476zpQ-2FYEdIVjaMHVfw6e3chmzB0773zk8IWYUtkl2t7v6rZ0u2W-2FZ89LV4o9E08s6M9tdCpiVtwdDYoLCHAwaZjdCHNVhEGtuBx-2FLbt03ayTyy2nzpkhtyDWFqI5UzdcZRWxXCKmrfHthZO2xEmLhg">Have your say on the ideas map</a>.

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We are developing a strategy for our evening and night time with our residents, local businesses and organisations, night workers and visitors. 

Camden's Evening and Night Time Strategy

Camden Evening and Night Time

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