News on Camden Evening and Night Time

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:

• Create an evening and night panel for Camden.
• Work with local business groups to promote family friendly and inclusive, non-alcohol-led experiences in the early evening.
• Promote recreation and wellbeing in the evening and night-time and use meanwhile opportunities to create safe, fun and inclusive recreational resources.
• Develop a business rates discount scheme to support grassroots music venues and Camden's cultural legacy.
• 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.
• Investing more money in cleaning of high streets at night and increasing the coordination of how we manage night-time hotspots.
• Pilot night and evening markets.

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.

Read the Strategy here