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Primary School National Offer Day

If you are parents or carers who applied on behalf of their child for a primary school place, you should have been notified last week which Westminster school your child will begin in September.  This year, 87.2% of parents and carers received their first choice of school across Westminster, a

You and Yours: Cracking Down on Candy Shops on Oxford Street

BBC Radio 4 You and Yours reporter Melanie Abbott discussed how the Council is cracking down on candy shops on Oxford Street, with the Leader of Westminster Council, Rachael Robathan. If you walk along one of the UK's premier shopping streets, Oxford Street in London, you'll see it's rather lost it

Gazebo canopy removed

Several residents living in Queen's Grove contacted your local councillors about a gazebo canopy which had been erected outside a dentist practice. ­Despite it being within a conservation area the Council showed flexibility to allow this structure during COVID to enable patients to queue safely whi

Hyde Park Action Team: Tackling Pavement Repairs

We joined Hyde Park community activist and council candidate Zaheed Nizar talking with Cllr Heather Action about repairs to broken pavements in Hyde Park ward. So Heather, what initiatives have the ward councillors in Hyde Park been taking to sort out broken paving stones and pavements?" Zaheed as

Hyde Park Action Team: The need to regulate pedicabs in central London

We heard from Hyde Park Councillor Heather Acton about residents' concerns over noisy pedicabs and the need for regulation. This is a pedicab, which is blocking the way, in fact, it's next to bicycle hangars. And we in Westminster City Council are doing all we can to make pedicabs safer.