As the tenth anniversary of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games nears, early depictions of what is now called the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park have been rendered from the black-and-white palette of betrayal. That is unsurprising – it’s how you get attention in journalism and academia, and there will be plenty more stuff like […]
Arts Council England has warned City Hall that already hard-hit cultural organisations across London will face new financial challenges this autumn when its next round of funding is announced. “We have a requirement to redistribute funding to outside the capital to support levelling up. That’s a clear government directive,” the council’s strategic partnerships director Paul […]
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) have been among the most politically sensitive issues for councils in London in the last few years and it is tempting to see the recent borough elections as a referendum on them. Local elections are always about a mix of topics – from neighbourhood level issues – for example an LTN or a planning application – to council-wide ones, such as the level of council tax, right up to national concerns […]
Last updated 28 May 2022. In terms of councils won, lost and retained, the 2022 London borough elections saw almost no overall change compared with the last such elections in 2018. It that year, Labour won 21 of the capital’s 32 local councils, the Conservatives won seven, the Liberal Democrats won three and one council, […]
Last updated 23:50. Labour have gained control of three formerly Conservative stronghold councils, while the Tories have hit back with two gains at Labour’s expense in borough elections results which also saw Labour lose the mayoralty of Tower Hamlets. Overnight, the now former Tory strongholds of Barnet, Wandsworth and, sensationally, Westminster fell to Keir Starmer’s party, […]
New London Architecture’s latest annual Tall Buildings Survey, launched this morning, illustrated both the continuing proliferation of buildings reaching 20 storeys and higher in the capital and factors that might be starting to inhibit it. Introducing the survey, which was launched at NLA’s temporary gallery space at Westfield Stratford City, next to the Queen Elizabeth […]
Harrow’s recent election results – adequate but not overwhelming Labour majorities in 2010, 2014 and 2018 – give a misleading impression of stability in the very complicated and volatile politics of the borough. Labour’s 2010 majority disappeared after a split in 2013, resulting in a short period of Conservative leadership until Labour rule was restored […]
The Liberal Democrats have governed the London Borough of Sutton since 1986, winning an unbroken series of nine council elections – the first with half the seats and all the others with absolute majorities. Only seven of London’s 32 boroughs have longer-established party majorities than that of the Sutton Lib Dems. The council’s current leader, […]
