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Christmas Christmas Day in a Westminster Pub: 12 Tables Worth Booking Now Housing Balmoral House, Churchill Gardens: 10 Social Rent Homes Open Mayfair Grosvenor Street, Mayfair: £15m Plan to Narrow the Road

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  1. Thu 12 Nov Covent Garden Christmas Lights Switch On The Piazza, Covent Garden
  2. Thu 12 Nov Bond Street Christmas lights switch-on 4pm · Bond Street · Free
  3. Thu 12 Nov An evening with Greg Jenner: Celebrity and memory 6.30pm · The Nave, Westminster Abbey · From £16.96
  4. Thu 12 Nov St Martin-in-the-Fields 300th Anniversary Concert 7pm · St Martin-in-the-Fields · From £10
  5. On now to 15 Nov Field of Remembrance North Green, Westminster Abbey · Free

Latest Westminster news

Maida Vale Rain Gardens Planned for Maida Vale and Carlton Vale: Have Your Say by 14 December Westminster wants views on rain gardens and permeable paving for Maida Vale and Carlton Vale, with drop-ins on 28 Nov and 1 Dec. The survey closes 14 December. · 7 min read Food and Drink Orrery Is Back in the Michelin Guide, With Five More Westminster Newcomers Six Westminster restaurants, from Orrery in Marylebone to Whiteley's Kitchen in Bayswater, joined the Michelin Guide in October. Updated November 2026. · 4 min read Christmas Where to Buy a Real Christmas Tree in Westminster, Maida Vale to Pimlico We checked 10 places selling real Christmas trees in Westminster, from St Mark's in Maida Vale to Covent Garden, for prices and dates. Updated November 2026. · 12 min read Council Westminster Fees 2027: Bulky Waste to £41, Parking Up 3.5% A Westminster bulky waste collection goes from £36 to £41 in April 2027, and parking rises 3.5% from March. Cabinet approved the new fees on 2 November. · 5 min read Council Westminster Council to Debate 'Zionism Is Not Racism' Motion Full Council debates a cross-party motion on 11 November rejecting the Green Party's anti-Zionist vote. A Labour motion on community hubs follows it. · 4 min read Christmas Christmas Shopping in Westminster: 18 Shops From Marylebone to Pimlico We checked 18 Westminster shops, from Daunt Books in Marylebone to Fortnum & Mason on Piccadilly, for opening hours, addresses and Christmas closures. Updated November 2026. · 14 min read Markets Westminster Market Fees Agreed: Up to 91% Rise From January A Saturday hot food pitch on Berwick Street goes from £22 to £42 under the 2027 fees, agreed unanimously. What every council market will charge, and what traders said. · 8 min read Weddings Win a Wedding at Old Marylebone Town Hall: Enter by 15 Nov The council will give one couple a free ceremony at Old Marylebone Town Hall on 13 April 2027, filmed for a promotional film. Entries close 15 November. · 3 min read Housing Westminster Housing Consultation: Offers Outside London Homeless households could be offered a private rented home, possibly outside London, and lose their place on the housing register. Have your say by 9 December. · 6 min read Christmas Nutcracker London 2026: ROH from 3 Dec, Coliseum 17 Dec The Royal Ballet's Nutcracker runs 3 December to 13 January at the Royal Opera House, from £10. English National Ballet's opens at the Coliseum on 17 December. · 7 min read Food & Drink Christmas Dinner in Westminster: 9 Tables, From £60 Curry to £500 Turkey Nine Westminster pubs, hotels and restaurants with 2026 prices and booking details, from a Soho pub at £81.95 to The Dorchester at £500. Checked November 2026. · 13 min read Local Info Westminster Temporary Accommodation: Half Is Out of Borough Westminster temporary accommodation: half of it is outside the borough and waits are long. Where you can be placed, your repairs and how to challenge it. · 8 min read
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Almost nobody says they live in Westminster. They say Marylebone, Pimlico, Bayswater, Paddington, St John’s Wood, Belgravia, Soho or Queen’s Park. The word means Parliament and the Abbey to the rest of the country, and a council to the people who live under it.

That council is worth paying attention to. It runs controlled parking zones and permits across nearly the whole borough, licenses the West End, and works through a planning caseload in which most buildings are listed or in a conservation area. All of it is published. We read it and write down what it says, with a link to the document on every fact.

The pages people use most

  • Westminster planning: from 10 August the Oxford Street Development Corporation, not the council, decides planning applications on Oxford Street, and the new City Plan consultation is open until 11 December.
  • Westminster house prices: the borough average fell 22.8% in a year, but the typical sale was £805,000 and 86% of them were flats. Postcode by postcode.
  • Roadworks and travel: what is dug up now, the carnival closures, the £18 congestion charge and what an hour of parking costs in each of the seven zones.
  • Tube and train times: £3.10 a trip in Zone 1, £8.90 a day, and journey times from Maida Vale, Pimlico and Paddington.
  • Things to do in Westminster: verified prices, including the Abbey at £27.13 until 1 September and three of the best things here for nothing.

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