Residents of a housing estate in Barnet have voted heavily in favour of plans to demolish and replace their homes in the first ballot held to meet new funding criteria set down by London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Nearly three quarters of the inhabitants of the Westhorpe Gardens and Mills Grove estate who took part in […]
Developers are still not doing enough to win the trust of Londoners, with a continuing disconnect between rhetoric and delivery, particularly on affordable housing. That was the message from Lendlease Europe boss Dan Labbad, speaking to a packed audience at think tank Centre for London’s annual London conference this week. “I don’t think anyone has got […]
This weekend thousands of people will enjoy the fireworks at Alexandra Palace. It’s an autumn highlight in the capital, combining two nights of pyrotechnics with a large-scale German Bierfest, circus, disco on ice, music, street food and more. The north London landmark, dating from 1873, is a unique destination – a Grade II listed hilltop […]
Brexit will be good for London. It’s far from the majority view in a city that voted 60% Remain, but the 40% case still deserves a fair hearing. And with Brexit in some shape or form still on the national schedule, the 60% need to be thinking about how the capital is going to deal […]
With little fanfare and amid no conspicuous calls for change, the London Labour Party and its affiliated organisations have begun going through the process of deciding whether or not Sadiq Khan should be automatically reselected as their candidate for the next mayoral election, with a decision to be announced at the tail end of next month. It’s […]
Owen Hopkins at Architectural Review: I was interested to read Owen Hatherley extolling the virtues of the Brandon Estate, not least because it’s where I’ve lived and been a participant-observer for the last six years…Hatherley describes strolling through the estate on a Sunday afternoon, when he encountered “people hanging around in the wide green between […]
Ealing councillor Joy Morrissey is probably the least known of the three politicians from whom London Conservatives will choose their candidate for the 2020 London Mayor election, almost certainly to challenge Sadiq Khan. Born in the US, she worked in the film industry before moving to London eight years ago to do a masters at the […]
A senior member of Jeremy Corbyn’s Islington North Constituency Labour Party has resigned over what he describes as the Labour leader’s “often tolerant” attitude towards antisemitism, claiming that the party has become “somewhere where antisemites feel comfortable and many Jews feel uncomfortable.” Russell Smith-Becker, who served for several years as Islington North CLP’s treasurer and as […]
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