Luisa Porritt, the Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor, maintains that there’s a space in the capital’s policy landscape which, at least for now, she occupies alone: “My platform and my vision is distinctive because I’m looking at the future of London and how our economy is going to work, how society is going to […]
Londoners living in overcrowded homes, working in high Covid-risk employment sectors or struggling to meet housing costs should be added to population groups already recognised as being particularly susceptible to the impact of the coronavirus, according to a new statistical study. Analysis of a range of social and economic indicators by researchers with the New […]
The capital’s child poverty rate has risen and remains the highest of any UK region, according to national figures published by the End Child Poverty coalition of charities. Research compiled for the group by Loughborough University for the year 2018/19 – preceding of the onset of the pandemic – found that the percentage of London […]
Transport for London has abandoned its plan to make safe an indoor market space it owns at Seven Sisters station after the scale of the work required was judged too large and expensive to proceed with. The transport body said in June that it intended to rectify an array of concerns about the condition of […]
Just a few weeks ago my little cluster of streets in Enfield found itself on the front line of London’s Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) battleground. Now, the final barrier of the Bowes Primary Area scheme is in place, blocking all vehicle access to 13 streets except via the North Circular urban motorway. As elsewhere, this […]
Like an angry wasp, my local Whatsapp group buzzed into life. Our little cluster of streets just south of the North Circular Road were suddenly on the front line of the low traffic neighbourhood battleground. We weren’t given much warning of plans to close off our roads brought forward by Enfield Council with cash from […]
There has been a lot of information compiled and reported about which parts of London and which groups of Londoners are most at risk from the coronavirus and why. Sometimes the flow of facts and theories feels contradictory and confusing. Getting a clear picture is, of course, a vital starting point to working out how […]
Many of London’s “non-essential” retail outlets have been re-opening, but sadly not the Seven Sisters indoor market, dubbed by some the “Latin Village”. The market space, which houses several small businesses run by women of Colombian origin or descent within the Edwardian “Wards Corner” building, has been the focus of a sustained and often outrageously […]
