The new London Plan: Shaping housing for the future: rescheduled
This London Forum/London Society joint event has been rescheduled for May 13th because of a delay in the publication of the supporting GLA paper ‘Towards a London Plan’ – originally due in February.
The details are on the rescheduled event page, and booking is still essential. There are a few more tickets available at UCL as it’s a larger lecture theatre.
If you booked for the original date, you should have been notified [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 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 [more…]
London Forum on BlueSky @londonforum.org.uk
We’re pleased to announce that The London Forum is now on the BlueSky social media platform. We’re using our domain name as our ‘handle’ for clarity: @londonforum.org.uk and we encourage members to follow us there.
Our latest postings appear on the website as shown in the screenshot below, and we plan to post our news updates and Insights to the service regularly. We’ll also post and re-post other items [more…]
Website and communications improvements
Since volunteering to take on management of London Forum’s website and email communications in November, having become a Trustee at the 2024 AGM, I’ve been making a few improvements, with a few more in the pipeline.
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Rooftop gathering at 75 Cowcross Street
As in previous years, the annual rooftop networking event for London Forum’s members will be held at the Alan Baxter office building at 75 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ, near to Farringdon station.
Join the Committee for drinks and nibbles on 20th August 2024 from 6.00pm to 8.00pm and meet representatives of other member societies at this unique setting with panoramic views over the City.
This is a free event for a [more…]
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Towards a new London Plan
The Mayor launched a consultation ‘Towards a new London Plan’, running to 22nd June 2025 as here. It will be explained [more…]
New Assembly Committees
GLA Assembly Members on each of their committees were listed in Appendix 1 of the Assembly Plenary agenda for 6th May [more…]
Speeding infrastructure delivery
The Government amended the Planning and Infrastructure Bill to build Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP) faster, as here. Angela Rayner MP, [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
📆 13th May 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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Planning, Environment and Transport committee meeting
📅 12th June 2025 | 14:00 - 16:00
🚩 Room B1 70 Cowcross St, EC1M 6EJ (map)