News on Camden Evening and Night Time

Over the last few months, we’ve heard from over 380 residents, businesses, workers and visitors on what they love about Camden at night and what they would like to improve – thank you for everyone that completed our surveys.

Your feedback will help us develop our strategy, to help make Camden’s evening and night-time a better experience for everyone living, working, visiting, or running a business in the borough.

Here are some of the things you have told us so far:

• people want more activities and spaces that don’t involve alcohol

• people want more activities in the early evening that families or people leaving workplaces can take part in before travelling home

• Camden’s iconic and dynamic music and cultural scene needs to be protected

• there is a need to make more evening and night-time activities available across the seasons

• many businesses are making tough decisions, every day, about how to survive

• transport links and feeling safe in spaces have an impact on whether people feel able to participate during the evening and night-time

• there is a desire for more respect from visitors for residents who live around hotspots

• there is a need to develop a sense of ‘stewardship’ covering the ownership and management of how people behave in public after 11pm

• places and venues need to be more accessible for disabled residents and visitors

Next steps

This Saturday will be the first of three citizens’ assemblies and we look forward to hearing more of your feedback.

Look out our next news article.