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  • Two new working groups: Freeholders and leaseholders, organised.

    EVTRA is opening its Freeholder and Leaseholder Working Groups: the route for getting the issues that affect your home properly addressed, collectively, for everybody in Elm Village. What PfP and RMG still owes us Five points were agreed during a February 2026 meeting with RMG: the CAPEX plan, a debt-collection freeze for freeholders, updated service charges,…

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  • Barker Drive Growing & Wellbeing Space Update

    The latest: Camden’s Park Service team have confirmed they received a good number of applications for the site and extended the deadline to accommodate one of the other interested groups. They’re now assessing everyone and expect to confirm a decision by the end of September. Let’s remain hopeful! A quick recap for anyone catching up: we…

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  • Camley Street Community Fund Application

    The Elm Village Open Space project has just submitted an application to the Camley Street Community Fund. We’ve requested £3,000 to help speed up clearing, repairing and getting the space ready for the next growing season. We should hear back from the selection committee late September. You can access our pitch here. You can read…

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  • Barker Drive Growing & Wellbeing Space Update

    We’re still waiting to hear back from Camden Council’s Parks Service on our licence application to take over running the growing space at the top of Barker Drive park. In the meantime, we’re not standing idle! We’re putting together an application to the Camley Street Community Fund, which could bring in a grant to help speed…

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  • Elm Village Open Garden @ Camley Street Festival – 25 July 12-4pm

    A quick update regarding EVTRA’s Elm Village Open Garden* application. The evaluation process is currently underway, and we expect a final decision from the Camden Council by the end of August. In the meantime, we have secured a prominent spot under a canopy at the Camley Street Festival next Saturday, 25 July, 12-4pm. Our allocated table is larger…

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  • Bringing Elm Haven Back to Life

    Share Your Thoughts! Known as Elm Haven, the Elm Village Open Space (the raised growing area above the park on Barker Drive) has been left unkept since Castlehaven Community Association’s licence expired last summer. The Camden Council is looking for a new organisation to take on the site and run it as a community food…

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