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 by the Deputy Mayor, Jules Pipe, at London Forum’s event on 13th May. The GLA offers supporting videos on the key topics and online events are offered which can be booked here. A Call for Evidence facility can be used to make additional detailed input to [more…]
E-bike safety
The Government published new independent research into the safety of e-bike and e-scooter lithium-ion batteries, chargers and e-bike conversion kits
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 [more…]
Using land value for new transport
The capital’s leading business campaign group BusinessLDN has produced a report on this subject here. It recommends building on the tax increment financing (TIF) model which allows borrowing against future increases in tax revenue resulting from infrastructure projects in order to finance transport schemes and calls on the Government to empower the GLA to do so.
Integrated Transport Strategy
Just before she resigned as Minister, The Rt Hon Louise Haigh MP launched a process for preparing England’s first Integrated National Transport Strategy, which is to be published in 2025. There is a consultation to seek ideas for it running until 30th January 2025.
TfL fares to be increased
Rt Hon Louise Haigh MP, Secretary of State for Transport has written to Sadiq Khan about Transport for London’s Spending Review Phase 1 Outcome FY25/26. The minister requires that “TfL rail fares will rise in line with national rail fares this year”, an imposed hike around 4.6 per cent from 2 March 2025. The Mayor had already indicated that his TfL fares freeze was unlikely to continue but this increase is [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)