Last week, Councillor Heather Acton held a strategic group meeting with landowners, the Marble Arch BID, Met police, TfL, West End security group and officers from across the Council.
The Leader of the Council attended and we had a very productive morning considering what planning, licensing, policing and enforcement policies and implementation measures could be applied to improve Edgware Road between Marble Arch and the Marylebone flyover. Various actions were agreed between all parties and, while it will take time to achieve all our aims, improvements will be seen soon.
Already another day of enforcement action is planned, following the success of the last one in August, which saw a number of premises improved.
Further changes include Sainsbury’s returning to a larger store at the Marble Arch end of the Road, new operators, assessed as suitable by the landowners, moving in to Regent House and the vacated Maroush Express site and new “public realm“ planting and seating coming to Sussex Gardens and Burwood Place.
