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North Paddington Lydford Community Hall Reopens in North Paddington After Refit Lydford Community Hall on Fernhead Road has reopened after a refit budgeted at £602,889. It holds 80 people and can be booked from £20 an hour, three working days ahead. · 3 min read Local Info Westminster Secondary School Admissions: Apply by 31 Oct Westminster secondary school admissions close at 11.59pm on 31 October 2026. Six of the ten schools offered every applicant a place last year. · 10 min read Soho Angelica Kauffman Green Plaque Proposed for 16 Golden Square Westminster decides on 28 September whether 16 Golden Square gets a green plaque for Angelica Kauffman. Seven sponsors pay the £3,500 fee, not the council. · 6 min read Food hygiene Westminster's Overdue Food Inspections Rose from 117 to 646 Overdue food hygiene inspections in Westminster rose more than fivefold in a year, to 646, after staff vacancies. Seventeen venues currently hold a zero rating. · 5 min read House prices Westminster House Prices Fall 20.7%, Steepest in London Westminster's average home lost £229,558 in a year, to £876,788, the steepest fall of all 33 London boroughs. But prices have risen for three months. · 9 min read Local Info Westminster Housing Register: 6,482 Waiting, 700 Homes Westminster housing register: 6,482 applicants by April 2025, up 21.4% in a year, against about 700 lettings. The bands, the bidding week and the real odds. · 9 min read Local Info Westminster Roadworks: Northumberland Avenue Shut to 8 Oct Northumberland Avenue is closed southbound at Charing Cross until 8 October and Kilburn Lane is still shut. Wellington Road and the Strand have reopened. · 17 min read Paddington Paddington Shopfront Scheme Scrapped After £408,000 Spent Westminster has cancelled the second phase of its Paddington and Bayswater shopfront scheme after the contractor collapsed. Thirteen shops are dropped. · 8 min read Local Info Westminster Planning Permission: The 10 Article 4 Directions Westminster planning permission and Article 4: every basement needs it, most shops cannot become flats without it, and seven streets have extra rules. · 10 min read Theatre Tartuffe Remixed at Marylebone Theatre: £20 front row seats Four £20 front row seats are drawn by lottery each Wednesday, and 2,250 seats across the run are £30 or less. Mark Rylance plays Park Road to 24 October. · 6 min read Crime Westminster phone snatching crackdown: 187 arrests A Met operation against e-bike and moped thieves in Westminster made 187 arrests from February to July. Theft from the person here fell 46% in those months. · 5 min read Planning Westminster planning: objections won't force a committee From 31 October, objection numbers and ward councillor requests can no longer send a Westminster planning application to committee. Councillors vote Wednesday. · 7 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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