boroughs of London

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has been urged to tackle gun crime after a freedom of information request revealed that some boroughs have higher homicide rates than major UK cities. There have been 53 murders in the capital since 2012, with London's murder rate overtaking New York City's for the first ...

London is experiencing a crime wave, in which people are being stabbed to death at a rate of one every three days, but a pioneering programme is turning the tide in one borough. While knife crime rockets across the capital, claiming 31 lives so far this year, violence has been falling in Islington since the ...

Local authorities across London are being urged to join the fight against climate change by pulling pension fund investments out of fossil fuels. London Mayor Sadiq Khan called on local authorities in the capital, which have an estimated £25 billion in pension funds, to follow his lead in “divesting” from oil, ...

Two fifths of London postcodes have registered annual property price falls over the past year, with growth in the capital slowing to 1pc, down from 4.3pc in February 2017. While regional cities such as Edinburgh and Liverpool have seen their respective property markets flourish, with growth in excess of 7pc ...

Ealing LBC councillors have agreed to terminate a loss-making environmental services contract with Amey, LGC's sister title Materials Recycling World reports. Negotiations are underway to end the contract by no later than July 2020, although it has not yet been decided if the new collection service will be ...

Eleven London boroughs have been granted a combined £500k to develop plans to become Creative Enterprise Zones, as part of Mayor Sadiq Khan's plans to boost ... It follows the London Borough of Culture award, which has been granted to Waltham Forest and Brent for 2019 and 2020 respectively.

Tim Wates director of Wates said: “Wates Residential is delighted to have been chosen as the London Borough of Havering's partner on this extremely exciting project, and we look forward to working with the council as we build more than 3,000 high-quality homes over the next 12 years. “As a family-owned ...

... delighted to have been chosen as the London Borough of Havering's partner on this extremely exciting project, and we look forward to working with the council as we build more than 3,000 high-quality homes over the next 12 years.” Estate regeneration schemes in London have faltered in recent months, ...

Find out the most and least expensive roads in your west London borough. The average sale price of one road was just £88,050 - but west London's highest is nearly £12 million. Share; Comments. By. Claire Miller. 13:05, 7 MAR 2018. News. Enter your postcode to see news and information near you Community updates, ...

So, Croydon did not win the title of London's first Borough of Culture. But we can most definitely hold our heads high with the sense of pride and honour that comes from having fought the good fight. Croydon has changed dramatically in recent years. In fact, it's the reason that Croydon made a bid for ...

Boris Johnson slammed after comparing Irish border to boundaries between London boroughs ... Ms Husain, clearly taken aback by the lazy (at best) comparison, responded: "Come on, you can't compare two boroughs of London with the kinds of difference in the arrangement that would be in place after ...

Waltham Forest and Brent have been named as the first London boroughs of culture, each receiving at least £1.35m of funding. The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, announced the two winners on Tuesday morning. They were chosen from the 22 London boroughs that submitted a bid. Ten boroughs did not ...

CIL Watch: London borough proposes increase in levy rates. 22 February 2018 by David Dewar , Be the First to Comment. A London borough has just closed a consultation on a draft Community Infrastructure Levy charging schedule which proposes a 40 per cent increase on current charges in the areas with the highest ...

Childhood pursuits such as climbing trees or flying kites in public parks could soon attract hefty fines in one London borough. Wandsworth Council is planning to introduce new rules on a range of activities in its 39 open spaces - and punish those who flout them. Climbing a tree "without reasonable excuse" ...

Sadiq Khan has committed an extra £1 million of funding to the new London Borough of Culture initiative, aimed specifically at encouraging young people from diverse backgrounds to participate in the arts. Twenty-two London boroughs bid to be crowned London Borough of Culture for a year, with the first ...

This is an exciting time for the London Borough of Bexley; we are at the heart of regeneration and change as London moves east. The Planning Department is gearing up for growth and we are looking to attract ambitious planners capable of leading on a range of applications. Investing in people is ...

Five London boroughs are allocating a total of £250m of their pension funds' investments to private debt, in a move that could spark interest from other local authorities. By Silas Brown; 29 Mar 2018. The boroughs of Ealing, Havering, Lambeth, Wandsworth and Merton have appointed Bfinance and JLT Employee Benefits to ...

East London borough Newham scored the lowest – 5.5, although that was primarily because it did not provide data to Parks for London for most of the criteria. Hackney, also in east London, scored the highest at 15, with missing data. Parks for London had no measurement for Hackney in health, fitness and ...