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Sussex Gardens and Burwood Place made safer

Sussex Gardens is now safer for pedestrians and cyclists following the quietway and crossing works. We appreciate that there was some traffic disruption, not helped by Thames Water, but there has been a real improvement in safety as a result.

Update on tackling short lets around Hyde Park

Conservative led Westminster City Council is calling on the Government to introduce mandatory information sharing between councils and operators such as AirBNB, so that it can enforce the legal limit of 90 days a year for short lets.

Bayswater Councillors provide Heathrow update

Heathrow is holding a public consultation covering both the proposed third runway and also maximising the use of their two existing runways, which means more planes crossing London - up to 25 per hour or almost one every two minutes. Heathrow wants to spread the impact by expanding the flight p

Councils given powers to block new phone boxes

Westminster already has about 1,000 phone boxes and last year conducted a survey into those around Oxford Street and Marble Arch, finding many neglected, out of service and/or disused.

#MyWestminster Fund Update

We have just learnt that the third round of the #MyWestminster Fund is now open. Local groups can apply for up to £10,000 for community projects promoting the environment, neighbourhoods, young people and community cohesion in Westminster.

Hermitage Street - Paddington Basin gets small business-friendly office space

With a commercial partner, Westminster City Council has supported PaddingtonWorks, which offers market-rate desk space, edit suites and shared meeting room and presentation facilities in Hermitage Street. Local residents with start-up businesses were given the chance to compete for ten bursaries of

Major drugs raid in Pimlico

We are increasingly receiving complaints from our residents about the open drug taking and dealing on our Pimlico streets.

Repairing pavements in Regent's Park

There are 353 miles of pavements/footways within the Borough of Westminster all of which need to be maintained and kept in proper order to ensure pedestrians can walk safely.  A loose paving stone can easily become a trip hazard so when Cllr Rigby was contacted by a local resident about a numb