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Balmoral Castle Petition Update

As your local Conservative councillor I have been campaigning for the Balmoral Castle site on Churchill Gardens estate to be used for sheltered and community-supported social housing. Last year I organised a petition which was signed by over 300 Churchill Gardens residents.

Planning Revolution - Cllr Nickie Aiken

A special update from Cllr Nickie Aiken, Leader of Westminster City Council Planning Revolution I wanted to share with you news about the biggest changes for Westminster planning in a generation. This is work I began when I became Leader of the Council in January 2017.

Visitors' diesel parking surcharge

Westminster City Council’s consultation on extending the Diesel Surcharge from the Marylebone Low Emissions Neighbourhood (LEN) across the city had the highest response-rate of any recent Council survey.

A new Post Office in Bryanston & Dorset Square Ward

We have received plans from Royal Mail for a new in-store Post Office at The Fruit Garden on Melcombe Street, to open on Tuesday 6th November. Your Councillors fully support this proposal and the benefit it will bring to residents.

Quieter trains arriving at Marylebone Station

Marylebone Station is London’s only all-diesel station. Both residents and local Councillors have been actively lobbying Chiltern Railways to reduce diesel pollution.

Improving road safety at the Allitsen Road and Charlbert Street junction

The safety of pedestrians and road users is a priority so when your councillors heard of concerns by residents about the junction at Allitsen Road and Charlbert Street we took this up with Officers. Subsequently works have recently taken place to improve both the footway and carriageway with th

St. Edward's School gets a breath of fresh air

In 2017, your Conservative Councillors funded a survey by King’s College London into the level of NO2 in the Ward, with the aim of obtaining hard scientific data which could persuade organisations to take the level of air-pollutants seriously, and support applications for funding to alleviate the pr

Traffic management proposals for Little Venice

We have had a number of requests from residents who have had difficulties with cars blocking the entrances to their properties. The particular roads only had single yellow lines at these points that do not prevent parking in those locations outside the controlled parking times. This caused