Working to protect and improve the quality of life in London
Welcome to the London Forum
The London Forum represents the views and interests of over 100 amenity and civic societies in London and their members on issues that are important for those who live and work in London. The Forum’s main focus is on Planning, Development Management, Heritage, Transport, Environment, Waterways and Open Spaces.
Culture funding
The DCMS £270m ‘Arts Everywhere Fund’ includes £15m for repairing Heritage at Risk and a new £4.85m Heritage Revival [more…]
Infrastructure Strategy
The Government has set out its working paper for developing a 10 Year Infrastructure Strategy which seeks to bring [more…]
What’s Happening to London’s Population?
An Historical Introduction
London’s population peaked in the 1930s, reaching about 8.6 million in 1939. For the next half century it fell steadily, to 6.8 million in the 1980s, before beginning to rise again, to over 9.1 million now. But the experiences of inner London (broadly, the area governed by the London County Council (LCC) from [more…]
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.