Newsletters

The Belsize Residents’ Association published quarterly Newsletters. Editions from May 2013 – February 2019 may be downloaded below. For details of later editions, see here

2019

February

  • Focus on The Hive Centre
  • Community Air Quality Monitoring
  • The Future of Queen Mary’s House
  • Association AGM 2019
  • Four Decades of the Newsletter
  • Belsize Society Constitution
  • Gordon Maclean: An Appreciation
  • Tradesmen You Can Trust
  • Flare Path at the RCSSD
  • Belsize Carol Singing
  • Dates for your Diary

2018

November

  • Interview with Matthew Watts
  • Planning Matters
  • News from Charity Commission
  • Environmental Matters
  • Pollution Monitoring Update
  • Transport Matters
  • Local Croquet
  • Heritage Trail Guide
  • Renew Your Membership
  • Theatre Outing at RCSSD
  • Dates for Your Diary

 August

  • Focus on Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
  • Air Quality Monitoring
  • BRA and the Planning System
  • Camden Transport Strategy Workshop
  • Camden Local Transport Meeting
  • Trees in Camden
  • Blue Plaques for Belsize
  • Start of Works Delayed at Swiss Cottage
  • Help Needed
  • Dates for your Diary

May

  • Focus on Art: Camden Arts Centre
  • Focus on Art: The Isokon Gallery
  • BRA Annual General Meeting
  • Illegal Wood Burning
  • CS11 and Swiss Cottage Gyratory
  • Our Data Protection Policy
  • Tradesmen You Can Trust
  • Local Election Hustings
  • Belsize Poetry
  • Hampstead Heath Croquet Club
  • Dates for Your Diary/Contact Us

February

  • Focus on Belsize Community Library
  • Fleet Singers
  • BRA Carol Singing
  • New Constitution for the BRA
  • Interview with David Gluckman
  • Crime and Security
  • Tradesmen You Can Trust
  • Haverstock Hill Noticeboard
  • Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
  • Dates for your diary

2017

November

  • Interview with Handley Stevens
  • Planning Matters
  • Grants for Renewables
  • Notable Past Belsize Residents
  • Local Roundup
  • New Books
  • Belsize Remembered Launch
  • Renew Your Membershi[
  • Volunteer for the BRA
  • Dates for Your Diary

 August

  • Feeding Camden
  • Belsize Remembered
  • Focus on Globe Tennis Club
  • Transport Matters
  • Crime and Security
  • Planning Matters
  • 10 Years of SuperHomes
  • 25 Years of Open House
  • BRA Garden Party
  • Tradesmen You Can Trust
  • Dates for Your Diary

May

  • BRA Website
  • Tradesmen You Can Trust
  • Your Association Needs You
  • Transport Matters
  • Bus Routes
  • Crime and Security
  • Planning Matters
  • Focus on Banking
  • Report on AGM
  • Dates for Your Diary

February

  • Carol singing in Belsize Village
  • Join the BRA Committee!
  • Tradesmen You Can Trust
  • Rubbish and recycling update
  • Belsize Village Noticeboard
  • RSPB notice
  • Local updates and planning
  • Our constitution
  • Obituary: Lois Dyer OBE
  • Save our streets
  • Need to know

2016

November

  • Our Constitution
  • Belsize Safer Neighbourhood Police
  • BRA carol singing
  • BRA membership
  • Belsize tree walk
  • Wallace Collection: BRA private tour
  • Planning matters
  • Belsize Baroque Orchestra
  • Letters to the committee
  • Dates for your diary

August

  • Our Constitution
  • BRA Garden Party
  • BRA archive plans
  • Rubbish collections
  • Celebrating Belsize architects
  • Safer Neighbourhood Police
  • Planning matters
  • Neighbourhood news
  • Belsize profile
  • Need to know

May

  • Annual General Meeting
  • HS2 next stages
  • Planning matters
  • Tradesmen You Can Trust
  • London Festival of Architecture
  • Maureen Michaelson Gallery
  • Belsize Library
  • Transitions Oral History Project
  • The Royal Free Music Society Choir
  • Need to know

February

  • BRA carol singing
  • Belsize Park Christmas lights
  • HS2 Committee
  • Sir Richard Steele
  • Neighbourhood Forum
  • BRA greetings cards
  • Tradesmen You Can Trust
  • Ruth Sands feature
  • Fairtrade Fortnight
  • Marylebone Birdwatching Society
  • Local opportunities
  • Need to Know

2015

November

  • Sir Richard Steele Pub
  • Voter Registration Changes
  • Belsize Remembered
  • HS2 Committee
  • 100 Avenue Road Update
  • Local Planning update Changes
  • Winch’s North Camden Zone
  • Belsize Christmas Lights
  • BRA Christmas Carols
  • Belsize Library Updates
  • Need to Know

August

  • Sir Richard Steele Pub
  • BRA Summer Garden Party
  • 100 Avenue Road
  • Belsize’s Superhome
  • Fleet Singers Community Choir
  • Marylebone Birdwatching Society
  • Belsize Park Library Updates
  • Royal Free Music Society
  • Burgh House
  • Need to Know

May

  • AGM report
  • Camden Waste Challenge
  • Tradesmen You Can Trust 2015
  • Camden Local Plan Consultation
  • 100 Avenue Road
  • Sir Richard Steele Pub
  • Stolen car in Belsize Park
  • Trees in Belsize Park
  • Belsize Baroque Orchestra
  • South End Green Festival
  • World Peace Garden
  • Belsize Park Library Updates
  • Need to know

2014

November

  • BRA local history walk
  • Crockery storage needed!
  • Green Fair, BRA subscriptions
  • A neighbourhood forum?
  • 100 Avenue Road, basements
  • Athol Hughes, Royal Free plan
  • Books, bridge, French chat
  • Library volunteering, memories
  • Christmas lights on the Hill
  • BRA cards
  • Who’s who and diary dates

August

  • BRA garden party
  • Local election hustings
  • Christmas lights on the Hill?
  • Green homes, thirsty trees
  • Film-makers’ bonus for Belsize
  • Eyesores in disguise
  • Young letter-writer cleans up
  • HS2, 100 Avenue Road
  • Police station to house school
  • Green Fair, sharing scheme
  • Local history walk, birdwatch
  • Who’s who and diary dates

May

  • AGM report, new Committee
  • Green Camden, paint disposal
  • Tradesmen You Can Trust 2014
  • Lawn Road Flat book review
  • Camden Goods Station Book, Newsletter deliverers
  • 100 Avenue Road, planning breaches
  • HS2, hustings, garden party
  • Belsize Film Society
  • Who’s who and diary dates

February

  • Carols, Tradesmen 2014
  • New members, noticeboards, ‘postmen’ needed
  • AGM, Council election hustings
  • HS2 disruption, nature reserve
  • Consultations, 20mph, fire station, police station, 100 Avenue Road
  • Hampstead ponds
  • Belsize  Reminiscences
  • Transition, ‘De-flyposting’
  • Who’s who and diary dates

2013

November

  • Belsize in View review 
  • Events organisers wanted
  • Email contact, website upgrade
  • Noticeboard helper needed
  • Local causes update
  • Subscription reminder
  • Olave Centre, BRA Carols
  • Local List recognition
  • Police and fire service updates
  • Recycling responses
  • Civic-minded schoolchildren
  • Who’s who and diary dates

August

  • The BRA summer garden party
  • Events organiser wanted
  • BRA needs a Secretary
  • Donation ideas?
  • David Percy’s autumn talk
  • How to contact the police
  • Fire station update, 20 mph news
  • Belsize Library reaches out
  • The spies of Lawn Road
  • U3A, Community Centre classes
  • Choirs to sing with
  • Who’s who and diary dates

May

  • The BRA AGM and 20mph limits
  • Eton College Estate history walk
  • Tradesmen You Can Trust
  • Wanted: your Belsize memories
  • Parkhill/Upper Park conservation
  • New BRA leaflet
  • Blue plaques, new and requested
  • Fire station consultation
  • Police service changes
  • Wheelie bins, recycling rules
  • Garden party
  • St Peter’s Arts Week
  • Who’s who and diary dates