Barking & Dagenham, Hillingdon, Newham and Sutton councils are to received the largest shares of £63 million from Transport for London to help them fund a range of transport initiatives. The new Local Implementation Plan (LIP) funding for the boroughs for the financial year 2023/24 is the latest portion of the £138 million allocated for […]
Local and regional employment statistics from the 2021 Census were released this week, giving a snapshot of who is working in London and how this compares with the rest of the country. There are caveats, given that the Census was undertaken in March 2021 at the end of the last Covid 19 lockdown when some […]
Has there ever been as great a mismatch between a concept and the conspiracy theories it has attracted than that consuming the “15-minute city”? How this extremely benign, rather geeky urban planning objective has become the subject of international conspiracy theories and mentioned in the House of Commons by a Conservative MP who should know […]
Last updated 3 March 2023 Every one of London’s 32 boroughs will be increasing their council tax in the coming financial year 2023/24, of which two-thirds are to hike it by the maximum 4.99 per cent allowed by the government without holding a special referendum. Croydon proposed a 15 per cent increase due to its […]
New data from the 2021 national Census released last week has shed fresh light on the variations in the general health of Londoners in different parts of the Greater London area. The figures, incorporated into the digital map created by the Office for National Statistics, show significantly higher percentages of adult Londoners who described their […]
Nearly 150,000 people in London are living in temporary accommodation, accounting for more than half the number of such homeless people in the whole of England, according to an analysis by the homelessness charity Shelter. Almost half of those temporarily housed are children and the overall number of people in the capital with no home […]
Road rage has been a constant, draining feature of 2022, engulfing everything from the congestion charge, to the enlargement of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), to the regulation or otherwise of e-scooters. Massive quantities of heat have been produced but precious little light and, all the while, the two most important ways of getting […]
The 2021 Census has revealed that London is more ethnically diverse but also more religious than most of the rest of the UK. This has been the case for some time and won’t surprise On London readers, but the latest headline figures have sent some into a frenzy, obscuring reality. “Britain’s two largest cities are […]
