London Boroughs

24 September 2024

Building a fairer Westminster

Lisa Ravenscroft, Chief Marketing Officer at Mount Anvil, reflects on the Westminster: On Location event, discussing the borough's opportunities and challenges for a Fairer Westminster.

London Boroughs

15 December 2023

Hammersmith & Fulham Green Investment

Hammersmith & Fulham Council is giving their residents a real stake in their local green transition, as they set an ambitious target to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2030.

London Boroughs

14 August 2023

Five minutes with… Simon Pitkeathley

David Taylor catches up with Camden Town Unlimited Chief Executive Simon Pitkeathley to talk about how its new map aims to reframe and regenerate his area and how BIDs are changing London.

London Boroughs

01 November 2022

Delivering successful partnerships

Jonathan Cornelius, TfL reports from our recent Think Tank which brought together key individuals from the public and private sectors to discuss delivering successful partnerships.

London Boroughs

16 August 2021

Waltham Forest pushes on with COVID recovery plan

Borough briefing webinar hears how the authority is pressing on with plans for inclusive growth – plus advances in agritech, including a vertical farm supplying basil for pizzas…

London Boroughs

19 February 2021

The GLA's London Recovery Programme

In our new Opportunity London 2021 report, the Greater London Authority (GLA) provide details of the London Recovery Programme, set up in response to COVID-19 to build back better the city’s economy a...

London Boroughs

11 February 2021

The challenges, and positives, for Local Authorities in the fight to get to net zero

In February 2019 Lewisham Council was one of the first local authorities in the UK to declare a Climate Emergency, this committed us to doing everything in our power to reach net zero carbon emissions...

London Boroughs

04 February 2021

Mayor Khan resolves to build back a better London

London mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged that London can build back better and become ‘a better place to live and work after this pandemic than it was before’. Khan was speaking at Opportunity London, a we...

London Boroughs

28 January 2021

Coming soon: Opportunity London report

Opportunity London is the definitive guide to development and investment opportunities across the capital. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan provides a foreword to the report ahead of its launch on Monday 1...

London Boroughs

14 January 2021

Developmental progress in Waltham Forest despite Covid-19

Waltham Forest Council continues to progress development in the borough despite restrictions posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, as set out in its Economic Recovery Plan, which details how the Council wil...

London Boroughs

21 October 2020

Camden collaborates to cope with Covid

Camden has mounted a multi-level approach to battling challenges thrown up by Covid-19 across the borough, including forming a ‘renewal commission’ to support economic recovery and forging a new abili...

London Boroughs

04 September 2020

The 21st Century Architects Department

Pat Hayes, managing director of Be First, reflects on the changing role of the local authority and its in-house architects’ departments. Could other councils take Barking and Dagenham’s lead, boost th...

London Boroughs

04 September 2020

Southwark steps up case for Bakerloo Line Extension housing boost

Southwark is pinning its hopes on government approving the extension to the Bakerloo Line ‘in the next year or two’ in order to help it build 20,000 new homes in the borough.

London Boroughs

06 August 2020

Kensington and Chelsea excited by ‘step change’ in digital consultation

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea says it has undergone a ‘step change’ in the way it consults digitally resulting in a far bigger and younger audience for its proposals and plans to press a...

London Boroughs

29 July 2020

Borough plans to build its way out of downturn

The London Borough of Waltham Forest plans to build its way out the post-COVID downturn, prioritising public health with a new hospital and healthy living environment at Whipps Cross, turbo-charging i...

London Boroughs

26 June 2020

Amend business rates and invest to save our town centres, says boroughs

Enfield’s Sarah Cary and Ealing’s Sophie Beagles discuss their approaches to regenerating their town centres and high streets, with investment and business rates high on their want list from central g...