It was welcome to see news last week of the first rise in the number of grassroots music venues in London in nearly a decade, reversing a long pattern of decline. The capital has lost a third of such venues over recent years, having been host to 144 as recently as 2007. There are now […]
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has told London Assembly members he is “optimistic and excited” that a Boris Johnson premiership will see rapid progress on devolving control of London suburban rail services to City Hall. Speaking at today’s Mayor’s Question Time, Khan said the current rail system was “broken beyond repair”, and repeated calls for “metroisation” […]
A group of London boroughs have begun buying property to accommodate homeless people through a not-for-profit company formed with financial support from national government. Capital Letters, which is collectively owned by 13 of the capital’s 32 councils, was established in December 2018 and this week has purchased its first home, in Tower Hamlets. The company […]
All six Labour constituency members of the London Assembly seeking re-election to the City Hall scrutiny body next year have been endorsed to fight their seats again, despite attempts by some Corbynite activists to force them to face challenges from other potential candidates. Florence Eshalomi, the AM for Lambeth & Southwark, and Onkar Sahota, who […]
Yesterday’s Liberal Democrat victory in Merton’s Cannon Hill ward at Labour’s expense was the first time a London ward has changed hands between the major parties since the all-out borough elections in May 2018 (although Labour did lose a ward in Tower Hamlets to a local political party, Aspire, in February). Merton is not one […]
Ealing Council adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism on Tuesday, completing a full set of London boroughs to do so. The vote was unanimous, but not without opposition or dissent. The West London Revolutionary Communist Group submitted a petition which it says was “signed by hundreds of Ealing residents” and later […]
Opponents of a new housing scheme in Deptford began attracting attention last summer, when a local news outlet reported that “residents are occupying the Old Tidemill Wildlife Garden in order to save the popular space from redevelopment”. Others followed. BBC London covered the dispute. A local Green Party activist told London Live that “the community […]
It’s getting on for a year since Sadiq Khan began requiring the support of residents to be secured through a ballot as a condition for receiving his financial help for estate redevelopment projects. The provision was not included in the draft of his best practice guide for such regenerations, and its insertion into the final […]
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