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Local Info Free Childcare Westminster: Apply by 31 Dec for January Free childcare in Westminster: 30 hours from 9 months for working parents, 15 for every 3 and 4 year old, Busy2s for 2s. Apply by 31 December for January. · 8 min read Westminster City Council Westminster £100m Grant Cut: Four Asks Going to Ministers Westminster has signed off its formal bid asking ministers to rethink a £100m, 46% grant cut. 89.8% of consultation answers backed it; Government need not agree. · 5 min read Christmas Westminster Abbey carols 2026 tickets: out 16 and 18 Nov Westminster Abbey Lessons and Carols tickets are released at 9.30am and 2.30pm on 16 and 18 November. Free walk-in carol services nearby are listed too. · 8 min read Christmas Oxford Street Christmas lights 2026: Harry Potter, date TBC Oxford Street's star lights return with new Harry Potter designs. The switch-on date is not out yet; last year's was 3 November. The street is traffic free. · 4 min read Crime Maida Hill Arson Appeal: Police Release Bus CCTV Image Detectives want to identify a man seen on bus CCTV after a fire at a home in Lydford Road, Maida Hill, on 18 July. The man inside was not hurt. · 3 min read Trains Paddington Closure: No GWR Trains 27 Dec to 3 Jan Great Western trains cannot use Paddington from 27 December to 3 January, or on 28 and 29 November. Heathrow trains stop too. What still runs, day by day. · 5 min read Trafalgar Square St Martin-in-the-Fields Flower Festival: Free, 15 to 17 Oct St Martin-in-the-Fields fills its church with flowers for its 300th anniversary, 15 to 17 October. Entry is free; ten demonstrations cost £15 each. · 4 min read Planning 10-20 Victoria Street: £600m Office Scheme Approved Westminster councillors backed a 13-storey office block at 10-20 Victoria Street on 13 October. It replaces two post-war blocks near the Abbey; the Mayor still has a say. · 6 min read Ebury Bridge Ebury Bridge Phase Two Cleared by Safety Regulator: 334 Homes The Building Safety Regulator has approved all five Phase Two blocks at Ebury Bridge, clearing the way for 334 homes, 228 for social rent, due summer 2029. · 4 min read Dockless bikes Westminster Seizes 1,000 Dockless Bikes, Bills Firms £450k Westminster has seized more than 1,000 dockless hire bikes since May and fined operators 5,300 times. In August the count was 235. How to report one. · 4 min read Green plaques Charles Amherst Villiers Green Plaque Unveiled in Mayfair A green plaque now marks 22 Farm Street, Mayfair, home in the 1930s of Charles Amherst Villiers, who supercharged the Blower Bentley and helped inspire Bond. · 3 min read Council Tax Westminster Council Tax Support Cut Plan: Up to £314 a Year Westminster may end 100% Council Tax Support for 9,437 working-age claimants from April 2027, costing band D homes up to £314 a year. Respond by 12 November. · 5 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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