Buy Flat London In 2003 the redevelopment of the north side of the square was completed. The work involved permanently closing the main eastbound road there - diverting it around the rest of the square and demolishing part of the wall and Buy Flat London building a wide set of stairs. This construction includes two Saxon scissor lifts for disabled access, public toilets, and a small cafe. Plans for a large staircase had long been discussed, even in original plans for the square. The new stairs lead to a large terrace or piazza in front of the National Gallery, in Buy Flat London what was previously a road. Previously access between the square and the Gallery was via two busy crossings at the north east and north west corners of the square. The pedestrianisation plan was carried out in the face of protests from both road-users and pedestrians concerned that the diversion of traffic would lead to Buy Flat London greater congestion elsewhere in London. However, this does not seem to have happened;[citation needed] the reduction in traffic due to the London congestion charge may be a factor.

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Pigeons flocking to London's Trafalgar Square, 2006. As at 2008 the pigeons have largely gone.
One of the trained falcons in 2007.

The square used to be famous for its pigeons (Feral Pigeons), and feeding them was a popular activity with Londoners and tourists. The National Portrait Gallery Buy Flat London displays a 1948 photograph of Elizabeth Taylor posing there with bird seed so as to be mobbed by birds. The desirability of the birds' presence has long been contentious: their droppings look ugly on buildings and damage the stonework, and the flock, estimated at its peak to be 35,000, was considered to be a health hazard. In 1996, police arrested one man who was estimated Buy Flat London to have trapped 1,500 birds for sale to a middleman; it is assumed that the birds ended up in the human food chain.[citation needed]

In 2000, the sale of bird seed in the square was controversially terminated and other measures were Buy Flat London introduced to discourage the pigeons, including the use of trained falcons. Supporters of the birds – including Save the Trafalgar Square Pigeons – as well as some tourists continued to feed the birds, but, in 2003, the then Mayor of London Ken Livingstone enacted byelaws to ban the feeding of pigeons within the square.[21] On 10 September 2007 the byelaws were secured sealing an outright ban on feeding birds in area of the square.[22] There are now few birds in Trafalgar Square and it is used for festivals and hired out to film companies, Buy Flat London in a way that was not feasible in the 1990s.

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Members of the public read plans to pedestrianise part of the square, February 2003.

In 2003 the redevelopment of the north side Buy Flat London of the square was completed.