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  1. On now to 1 Nov Frieze Sculpture 2026 English Gardens, The Regent's Park · Free
  2. Sun 4 Oct Marylebone Farmers' Market 10am · St Vincent Street and Aybrook Street
  3. Mon 5 Oct Here I Stand: Janina Ramirez 7pm · St Martin-in-the-Fields · From £10
  4. Tue 6 Oct The Regent's Park After Dark: Bats and Fungi 6.15pm · The Regent's Park · Free
  5. Thu 8 Oct London Voices: Video Games Go Choral 7pm · St Martin-in-the-Fields · From £10

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Housing Westminster Homeless Service: 58 Beds, New Charity Provider Changing Lives now runs Westminster's Next Steps service: 58 beds for homeless single adults in six Marylebone and Maida Vale properties, three staffed 24/7. · 4 min read Local Info Westminster Roadworks: Great Portland Street Shut to 16 Oct Great Portland Street is closed at Oxford Street to 16 October for pedestrianisation works. Northumberland Avenue stays shut southbound to 8 October. · 16 min read Events What's On in Westminster: Frieze London, Then Diwali on the Square Frieze opens to the public in Regent's Park on 15 October, Diwali fills Trafalgar Square free on the 25th, and veteran cars leave Hyde Park on 1 November. · 8 min read Local Info Westminster Primary School Admissions: Apply by 15 Jan Westminster primary school admissions close on 15 January 2027. 22 of 30 schools took every applicant in 2026; the tightest cut-off was 0.202 miles. · 8 min read Covent Garden Blue Note London Opens on St Martin's Lane After a Two-Hearing Licence Fight Blue Note London is open at 42-49 St Martin's Lane, licensed to 1am and bound to stay a jazz venue. Its first licence was cut to earlier hours; a second bid won the later close. · 4 min read Remembrance Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph: 8 November, 11am The National Service of Remembrance is at the Cenotaph on Sunday 8 November 2026 at 11am. No ticket needed to watch; Whitehall opened at 8am last year. · 6 min read Christmas Trafalgar Square tree lighting: due Thursday 3 December Westminster lit the Trafalgar Square tree on the first Thursday of December in 2024 and 2025, at 6pm, free. That points to Thursday 3 December 2026. · 4 min read Pantomime London Palladium panto 2026: Cinderella, 5 Dec to 10 Jan The Palladium panto is Cinderella, 5 December 2026 to 10 January 2027, with Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Julian Clary. From £25, no under-4s. · 4 min read Christmas Leicester Square Christmas market: opens 31 Oct to 3 Jan Leicester Square's Christmas market and rink run 31 October 2026 to 3 January 2027, closed Christmas Day. Weekdays open at noon until 26 November. · 4 min read Transport Route 6 Will Be the First Bus Run by TfL's Own Company Route 6, Willesden to Victoria via Maida Vale, Marble Arch and Park Lane, will be the first run by Buses for London, the new TfL-owned company, from late 2027. · 4 min read Westminster Abbey Tolkien Memorial Coming to Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner A 2.5-metre memorial to J.R.R. Tolkien will be inlaid into a pillar in the Abbey's south transept from spring 2027, built partly from his favourite Oxford pine. · 7 min read 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
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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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