AI and the Pothole Crisis: Learning from 'Down Under’
Leo Hanna, executive vice president UK at TechnologyOne, looks at what the UK can learn from Australia when it comes to using AI to identify potholes.
London leaders seek new deal with Khan
07/02/2025 London borough leaders have demanded more formal influence over powers devolved to the capital. |
Three boroughs seek more than £120m financial support
28/01/2025 Three London boroughs have announced in the past week they are seeking exceptional financial support from the Government. |
London drivers receiving invalid fines, AA finds
22/01/2025 Research by the AA has revealed that authorities in London have been issuing drivers with invalid penalty charge notices (PCNs). |
Mayor of London urged to tackle ‘mounting sewage crisis’
22/01/2025 Campaigners have urged the Mayor of London to take action to tackle the ‘mounting sewage crisis’ in the capital. |
Age UK London calls for immediate action on toilet provision
16/01/2025 London boroughs, the Mayor’s Office, Transport for London and the Government have been urged to improve public toilet provision in the capital. |
GLA developer stuggles with £300m debt
23/12/2024 Auditors have warned a developer owned by the Greater London Authority (GLA) may require a rescue package. |
M&S triumphant after three-year demolition bid
06/12/2024 Oxford Street’s M&S store can be demolished, the Government has ruled, more than three years after the retailer submitted plans to rebuild the flagship shop. |
Historic London markets set to close
27/11/2024 Two of the capital’s oldest food markets are set to close after the City of London Corporation agreed to pull out of running them. |
Rayner may intervene over plans for tower block near synagogue
26/11/2024 The Government could step in amid a dispute over plans to build a 43-storey office block near Britain’s oldest synagogue in London. |
Affordable housing starts drop due to ‘tough’ conditions
25/11/2024 The number of housing starts for affordable homes in Greater London fell sharply last year, official figures reveal. |
London boroughs raise concerns about looming PFI expiry
25/11/2024 Many London boroughs are not prepared for the expiry of their private finance initiative (PFI) contracts, report finds. |
CCTV trial launches at London bus stops
25/11/2024 Transport for London (TfL) has launched a trial of CCTV at 20 bus shelters across the capital in a bid to improve safety, particularly for women and girls. |
London mayor calls for Right to Buy devolution
18/11/2024 Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has called on the Government to devolve control over Right to Buy to the capital. |
Roman road discovered directly under Old Kent Road
13/11/2024 A 2,000-year-old section of Roman road has been uncovered directly beneath Old Kent Road. |
Violence reduction schemes found to benefit parents’ mental health
07/11/2024 Support services for parents in communities affected by violence have been found to positively impact their mental health and improve communication with their children. |
Just 5% of London private rentals affordable to low-income households
17/10/2024 Only 5% of private rental listings in London are affordable to households who use Local Housing Allowance (LHA) to pay their rent, new research has found. |
Lambeth warns of ‘drastic savings’ without help
18/09/2024 Lambeth Council has called for urgent help in the Government’s Budget next month, at a time it said ‘could not be more critical’ for local authorities. |
Ministers back Khan to pedestrianise Oxford Street
17/09/2024 The mayor of London has unveiled government-backed plans to pedestrianise the capital's most famous shopping street. |
Several London councils ‘edging closer towards effective bankruptcy’
12/09/2024 Boroughs in the capital are set to overspend by more than £600m this year as housing and homelessness pressures ‘wreak havoc’ on their finances, according to London Councils. |
Vehicle scrappage scheme to close as demand drops
07/08/2024 The first scheme launched by a London borough to help residents switch to less polluting vehicles will close next month. |
Call for clarity on decarbonising buildings
25/07/2024 The Government’s net zero and economic growth ambitions could be ‘derailed by a lack of clarity’ on decarbonising older buildings, a report has argued. |
How to tackle London’s housing crisis
18/07/2024 Piali Das Gupta, London Councils’ Strategy Director – London’s Future, looks at what the new government should do to solve the capital’s housing shortage. |
Barking and Dagenham leader to step down
16/07/2024 The leader of Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council has announced he is standing down from the role after 10 years. |
Pro-growth planning could deliver 407,000 jobs
10/07/2024 A pro-growth planning environment could deliver 407,000 jobs and 55.7 million square feet of commercial floorspace in central London by 2045, study says. |
Councillor quits Labour over Starmer’s Bangladesh comment
28/06/2024 A Tower Hamlets councillor has left the Labour Party over a reference Keir Starmer made to Bangladesh in relation to illegal immigration. |
Rough sleeping in London hits new record high
27/06/2024 The final year of a Conservative government that pledged to end rough sleeping saw a record number of people sleeping on the streets of London. |
TfL lets the wildflowers bloom
25/06/2024 Transport for London (TfL) says it has delivered its pledge of doubling wildflower verges in roadside areas to encourage biodiversity. |
Wandsworth to ban riders ‘abandoning’ e-bikes in busy areas
24/06/2024 A London borough council has announced plans to ban riders leaving e-bikes on pavements in busy town centres. |
Planning London under Labour
17/06/2024 Grant Leggett, Executive Director and Head of Boyer’s London planning team, looks at the impact of a future Labour government on planning in London. |
Council has ‘no plans’ to cancel fines despite error
17/06/2024 Fines issued to drivers for using bus lanes will not be revoked despite containing a mistake, Southwark Council has said. |
Diplomats owe £143.5m in congestion charges
21/05/2024 Embassies in London have amassed debt worth more than £143.5m in unpaid congestion charges since the scheme was introduced in 2003. |
Short-term lets plans could ‘worsen’ housing shortage
20/05/2024 London boroughs have warned that government plans for regulating the short-term lets sector could worsen the capital’s housing crisis. |
Siân Berry quits London Assembly three days after re-election
08/05/2024 Green Party politician Siân Berry has stood down from the London Assembly just three days after she was re-elected. |
Demolition of Only Fools and Horses tower set for 2027
07/05/2024 The iconic London tower block whose exterior served as Nelson Mandela House in the opening credits of Only Fools and Horses is set to be demolished in 2027. |
Night-time economy leaders frustrated at lack of support
24/04/2024 Business leaders working in London's night-time economy have expressed their ‘frustration and anger’ at the lack of governmental support the sector receives. |
Khan pledges to build 6,000 ‘rent control’ homes
05/04/2024 London mayor Sadiq Khan will today commit to building homes with capped rents as part of his bid for re-election next month. |
Young homeless people feel ‘ignored’ by councils
27/03/2024 Young people experiencing homelessness feel ‘dismissed and ignored’ when they approach local authorities for help, research has found. |
Council homes acquisition plan could save boroughs £1.5bn
12/03/2024 Plans to boost London’s council housing supply by buying from the private market could save boroughs and the Government billions over the next 20 years, a report has found. |
City Hall hails ‘dramatic’ air quality improvements
12/03/2024 Air quality in the capital has improved ‘much faster’ than in the rest of the UK because of policies introduced by the London mayor, according to a report. |
High Court overrules Gove on M&S demolition
04/03/2024 The Government’s decision to block Marks & Spencer’s plans to demolish and redevelop its flagship central London store was unlawful, the High Court has ruled. |
London boroughs spend £3m a day on temporary accommodation
28/02/2024 The cost of temporary accommodation in the capital ‘threatens to bankrupt boroughs’, London Councils has warned. |
UK’s first healthcare air quality alert launched
28/02/2024 Healthcare professionals in London will be notified directly about high pollution episodes, London mayor Sadiq Khan has announced. |
Harry Kane statue in storage for years
22/02/2024 Waltham Forest Council is struggling to find a suitable location for a statue of local hero Harry Kane. |
Finance chiefs join Household Support Fund plea
14/02/2024 Senior finance officers across London have urged the Government to extend the Household Support Fund (HSF) into the 2024-25 financial year. |
Ealing agrees £150m package to buy up housing
14/02/2024 Councillors in Ealing have approved a £150m plan to acquire housing in the face of soaring temporary accommodation costs. |
Khan pledges £15m for domestic abuse services
14/02/2024 Projects that support survivors of domestic abuse in the capital will receive an extra £15m, the major of London has announced. |
Rough sleeping in London reaches record high
01/02/2024 More people were sleeping rough in the capital at the end of 2023 than at any period in the past decade. |
TfL hands boroughs another £80m for streets
31/01/2024 Transport for London (TfL) has announced up to £80.4m for boroughs to improve public transport, make walking and cycling safer and create new school streets. |
Schools face ‘impossible choices’ as demand drops
29/01/2024 Falling demand for school places across London will have major implications for the future of education provision in the capital, a new report says. |
Thames Water sewage spills more than quadruple
25/01/2024 The mayor of London has called out the ‘scandalous’ increase in instances of sewage flowing into the capital’s rivers, urging Thames Water to ‘get a grip of the situation’. |
City Hall to decide on Wimbledon expansion plans
23/01/2024 The Mayor of London’s office has called in a controversial planning application to expand Wimbledon’s tennis grounds. |
Report warns of 'lethal' climate change risks
17/01/2024 With London and the UK ‘underprepared’ for extreme weather and an absence of national leadership on climate, regional government must adapt at pace, a new report argues. |
First-of-kind tool links road casualties and deprivation
12/01/2024 Transport for London has launched a dashboard which shows how deprivation is linked to higher levels of death and injury on the capital’s roads. |
London boroughs’ share of HS2 pothole fund confirmed
20/12/2023 Allocations for a £235m funding pot aimed at fixing London’s pothole-strewn roads have been confirmed by the Government. |
Gove intervenes over Khan’s housebuilding plans
19/12/2023 Housing secretary Michael Gove has said he is taking urgent action because London is ‘failing’ to provide affordable homes. |
Gov’s migration plans threaten ‘recruitment crisis’
13/12/2023 Hundreds of thousands of non-UK nationals working in London’s health and social care sector are likely to be hit by the Government’s new migration policies, Mayor Sadiq Khan has warned. |
Mayor of London criticised for Saudi ads
13/12/2023 Mayor Khan has been criticised after Saudi adverts appeared on the TfL Network despite advertising restrictions on countries with poor human rights records. |
Think tank calls for housebuilding on ‘grey belt’
08/12/2023 London should address its ongoing housing crisis by building on low-quality parts of the green belt, a think tank focused on the capital has argued. |
New scheme to help London councils buy homes
20/11/2023 London mayor Sadiq Khan has announced a programme that will fund councils to purchase homes from the private market. |
Council admits hand in disposing of tents
15/11/2023 Camden Council has admitted that it was involved in the disposal of homeless people’s tents in central London last week. |
Call for 'urgent action on deepening housing crisis'
10/11/2023 The council that increased new homes supply the most last year has urged the Government to take ‘urgent action’ on the ‘deepening housing crisis’. |
Homelessness warning over LHA freeze
09/11/2023 A maintained freeze on local housing allowance (LHA) rates could push 60,000 Londoners into homelessness over the next six years, according to new analysis. |
‘Stark inconsistency’ across London on Build to Rent
08/11/2023 Planning policy across London boroughs ‘could do far more’ to provide a comprehensive basis for the delivery of Built to Rent (BtR) schemes, a report has argued. |
DCN writes to Hunt over temporary accommodation pressures
01/11/2023 Following a summit attended by 158 councils, the District Councils’ Network (DCN) has warned chancellor Jeremy Hunt about ‘unprecedented’ numbers of people turning to councils in the face of homelessness. |
‘Tragic and shameful’ rough sleeping increase in London
01/11/2023 City Hall had told the Government it must act to avoid ‘spiralling’ homelessness this winter after new data showed rising rough sleeping across the capital. |
Khan hails ULEZ compliance as revenue doubles
31/10/2023 London mayor Sadiq Khan has welcomed new data showing that compliance rates in the new outer London part of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) have nearly caught up with those in inner London. |
Khan puts £10m into street works co-ordination
31/10/2023 London mayor Sadiq Khan has announced a further £10m for his Infrastructure Coordination Service (ICS), which aims to reduce the delays caused by street works in the capital. |
Islington ordered to pay £66,000 after housing investigation
24/10/2023 A ‘disjointed’ approach to complaints and a ‘lack of ownership’ were found in a special investigation to be behind Islington Council's 'persisting' housing problems. |
Fighting poverty at the local level
18/10/2023 This week for London Challenge Poverty Week John McGeachy, campaigns manager for Age UK London talks poverty amongst older people and what councils can do. |
London faces ‘chronic’ street clutter issue
18/10/2023 Central London has a ‘chronic’ issue with street clutter such as disused phone boxes and discarded e-bikes, a think tank has warned. |
Boroughs to get opt out from future ULEZ-style schemes
13/10/2023 Legislation that will enable London boroughs to opt out of future road charging schemes has been welcomed as ‘an enormous step forwards in local democracy’. |
New travel concession for London care leavers
09/10/2023 Care leavers aged 18-25 will receive half-price bus and tram travel in London, mayor Sadiq Khan announced today. |
Where’s Wally? Stolen statue spotted and returned to council
29/09/2023 A piece of art stolen in a heist 16 years ago has been returned to Ealing Council. |
Council orders demolition of ‘mutant’ apartment blocks
28/09/2023 In an unprecedented move, Greenwich Council has ordered the demolition of two residential towers because of ‘significant deviations’ from planning permission. |
Unite and council reach deal to end waste strike
27/09/2023 Waste service workers and street cleaners return to work today after negotiations between Tower Hamlets Council and the trade union Unite put an end to industrial action. |
London council calls for power to impose overnight levy
20/09/2023 Westminster City Council has called on the Government to enable local authorities to tax tourists on stays. |
No investigation over ULEZ research collusion claims
15/09/2023 There will be no investigation into the London Mayor’s deputy for environment over reports that she urged scientists to counter research relating to low emissions zones, the Mayor's office has said today. |
Council signs deal for Oxford Street revamp
14/09/2023 Westminster City Council has signed a new agreement and approved the next stage of a £90m investment in Oxford Street this week. |
London boroughs form partnership to tackle domestic abuse
11/09/2023 Seven boroughs in south London have launched a two-year programme which aims to tackle domestic abuse. |
Landlord fined £285,000 after council investigates illegal homes
01/09/2023 A landlord who crammed vulnerable tenants into tiny flats above a Stoke Newington pub has been fined £285,000 after Hackney Council enforcement officers intervened. |
Shell is helping power the journey towards a circular paving industry with Shell Bitumen LT R, a new product for roads that uses plastics destined for landfill as part of the additives to make the bitumen.
Effective Energy Group is now offering its support to the 40 Local Authorities who have received a share of the £430m to deliver their projects on the ground by surveying properties and installing measures.
Dougie Belmore explains how one of the main interfaces between you and Bacs is about to change.
