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Evening and night-time strategy

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Evening and night-time strategy

Our Evening and Night-Time Strategy establishes a vision to make Camden a welcoming, safe and inclusive place to spend time in the evening and night-time. 

What the strategy includes 

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

Women’s safety  

The strategy reinforces our key objective. This is to address issues relating to the experiences of women travelling through the borough, particularly at night. We aim 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. See more about Women's safety.

Diversity and inclusion 

It also takes into consideration the recommendations of our Diversity in the Public Realm Strategy. This is by seeking to promote inclusion and bring new audiences into the public realm to use services and access culture at night. 

Public engagement 

We undertook extensive public engagement between October 2022 to March 2023. We reached 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. 

Citizen’s assembly 

We also held a Citizens Assembly to help develop the strategy. We held it 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 full report of the Assembly.