In July 2021, I went to Marble Arch in order to ascend the newly-opened Marble Arch Mound, Westminster Council’s well-intended but disastrous attempt to draw visitors back to a West End that had been hammered by the pandemic. The friend I had arranged to meet was on the pavement outside Marble Arch station, and I […]
Thursday 28 November saw a Super Thursday of London borough by-elections. There were five vacancies in four wards in three boroughs. Two of the contests arose from councillors being elected MPs in July’s general election, and one party – Labour – was defending all the seats. A lot of the activity concerned Barking & Dagenham. […]
It is a paradox of Tottenham’s Broadwater Farm estate that it stands very close to a large public park but isn’t a terribly green place. Its western side looks out over the Lordship Recreation Ground in the Moselle valley. The estate’s very name harks back to the area’s still fairly recent rural past. Yet for […]
For a whole hour, one by one, local library users were invited to address the council chamber. Seven-year-old Jasmine bravely explained that her mum “can’t afford to keep buying my books”, while her older brother Jackson explained that he used the library to do his homework. Morris, aged 90, said elderly people used his branch […]
Sadiq Khan should make improving the quality of jobs in the capital “a central theme” of his forthcoming London Growth Plan in line with a cross-departmental national government mission with the same goal, according to the new report for a partnership of central and inner London local authorities. Findings by Central London Forward, which represents […]
The first London borough by-elections triggered by councillors becoming MPs on 4 July took place in Camden on Thursday to fill vacancies created following the general election wins for Labour of Georgia Gould, Danny Beales and Lloyd Hatton. Gould, a member of Camden Council since 2010 and its leader since 2017, had represented Kentish Town […]
Last autumn, Nicky Gavron, less than a year before her peaceful death at her home last week, aged 82, received a little more of the recognition for her service to London she deserved. A Pink Plaque in her honour, celebrating her as a remarkable woman with close ties to Highgate, was unveiled at the Jackson’s […]
If I were them, I too would strike an optimistic note. Representatives of the Wards Corner community benefit society (CBS), the latest entity bearing hopes that a strengthened Seven Sisters indoor market can emerge from the remnants of the old have made public their hopes of progress. Their cautiously upbeat tone is logical for two […]
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