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London Forum Updates
Accelerating housing delivery
The GLA published an Accelerating Housing Delivery Planning and Housing Practice Note, which provides additional guidance to support short [more…]
Chief Planner’s newsletter to LPAs December 2024
Joanna Averley, the DHCLG Chief Planner, issued another newsletter on 19th December 2024 to local authorities requiring them to update their [more…]
Government Plan for Change
The Labour Government confirmed in July 2024 its five missions from its manifesto and its first six steps for [more…]
London Forum Insights
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Barbican Art Centre gets £191 million to fund essential upgrades
A substantial upgrade of the Barbican Art Centre is to go ahead after the City of London approved £191 million of funding for the arts centre.
.@BellRibeiroAddy @helenhayes_ @FloEshalomi set up a meeeting with delegates from @Fight4Heat_LBL and listen to those suffering on the ground in Lambeth and how @lambeth_council treats them with little more than contempt.