London Forum Insights
Insights are our long-form review articles on key matters of interest to members
Member News : How to contribute
In an earlier article, I mentioned that two-thirds of member societies are already represented on the new live member news page, which in turn provides selected articles for our weekly email to the whole membership, allowing members to share their news and knowledge across London. Here, we assume you think this is a good idea too. We select stories that we feel are particularly newsworthy, or of benefit in by way of information sharing to a significant part of the membership. Our aggregated membership approaches 100,000 Londoners, so this could be significant.
How can your society join in?
We just need to know the address of your RSS feed so that we can read it. A ‘feed’ automatically produces a computer-readable version of your website’s latest articles.
Member news page https://www.londonforum.org.uk/news/member-news/
One-third of societies are not represented, for the following possible reasons:
- No active [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 1889 to 1963) and of outer London (broadly, the areas added to the county when the Greater London Council (GLA) was created in 1965) have differed greatly.
Population density map 2020
Inner London’s population fell rapidly by over 40%, from 4.6 million to 2.6 million between the 1930s and the 1980s. By contrast, the outer London population rose from around 3.5 million in the 1930s to 4.5 million in the 1960s, before falling slightly to 4.2 million in the 1980s. Since then, both inner and outer London have grown by over a million people, to around [more…]
Great British Railways consultation launched
The government has at last launched a formal consultation on the creation of Great British Railways (GBR), several years after the launch of the Williams Review in 2018 that ended up as the Williams-Shapps report in 2021 recommending a GBR.
GBR logo – there are several proposed versions
Although the previous Conservative governments gave oral support to a proposal which bore the name of their transport secretary, the closest they came to implementing it was a dummy Bill, a kind of dress rehearsal for what might become the real thing before the script had been written.
Labour supported Great British Railways in opposition and continues to do so. An Act to renationalize the railways as franchises come up for renewal has already been enacted. This should put a stop to the use of government subsidies that create profits and shareholder dividends for the train operating companies, [more…]
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PDF versions of the earlier ‘newsletter format’ editions of Insights are shown below. The archive of the Insights forerunner NewsForum is available here
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Broken Homes
Further to London Forum’s notification of the problems of temporary accommodation, MyLondon website has launched a ‘Broken Homes’ campaign to [more…]
Mayor’s licensing powers
GLA Deputy Mayors have written to boroughs calling for action in supporting hospitality. The Government has formed a new working group, [more…]
DCMS Inquiry: Protecting Built Heritage
We’ve responded to the recent DCMS inquiry on Protecting Built Heritage, the response is posted in the ‘what we’ve said‘ archive [more…]
Member News : How to contribute
In an earlier article, I mentioned that two-thirds of member societies are already represented on the new live member news page, which in turn provides selected articles for [more…]
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The New London Plan: Shaping Housing for the Future
📆 23rd April 2025 | 18:30 - 20:45
🚩 77 Cowcross Street, EC1M 6EL (map)Please note that this event has been moved to May 13th – see this update ( https://www.londonforum.org.uk/2025/04/06/the-new-london-plan-shaping-housing-for-the-future-rescheduled/ ) Many communities in London are concerned about future development that could change that character of their much-loved areas, whether by the scale, density or height of new building. This event will leave us all much better informed about the shape of the next ten…
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Member Services Committee meeting
📅 24th April 2025 | 14:00 - 16:00
🚩 Room B1 70 Cowcross St, EC1M 6EJ (map)