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Keeping the City Moving: Business

Conservative-controlled Westminster Council is keen to support small businesses through to a full recovery. Small businesses are the lifeblood of a local community, and this is as true in Bryanston and Dorset Square Ward as anywhere else.

Gully finally fixed or is it?

Local people living near to the junction of St John’s Wood Road and Grove End Road will know the gully at this junction has been blocked for some time now resulting in a large pooling of water during a heavy downpour.   Your local Councillors have continually engaged with Transport f

Planning application for the High Street

A planning application (reference number 20/01662/FULL) has been submitted for a new family club, café & nursery on St John’s Wood High Street. This would be the first of its kind in the ward and provide an interesting mix of uses helping to attract a substantial increase in visitors to the Hig

Improving internet access across our City  

Your council is working hard to improve the internet service provided across Westminster to ensure our City for All commitment to be one of the best-connected cities is achieved.

Building construction during COVID-19

We recognise the difficulty the lock down has had on individuals and families with the advice to stay at home. This has not been made easier by the Government’s position that construction can continue and in our part of the City there have been a number of sites where works have indeed con

Little Venice Connects

As we have already reported, your local councillors have been working with the Paddington Waterways and Maida Vale Society and the Council’s Westminster Connects service to provide meals donated by Clifton Road businesses Raoul’s and Cook Maida Vale to our hardworking NHS staff at St.

Working Together through lockdown

Taking advantage of the absence of traffic and pedestrians during lockdown, the Queensway street works made terrific progress. The wide new pavements will enable proper social distancing when people return to the high street as restrictions are lifted.

New Community Protection Zone

A new Community Protection Zone has just gone live on and around Queensway and Inverness Terrace to help police tackle the sharp increase in antisocial behaviour there during lockdown, and ban persistent troublemakers from the area.

Shopping in Knightsbridge & Belgravia

Many of our local businesses have had to make significant changes in the way they trade during the COVID-19 crisis. We have seen restaurants turn to takeaway and delivery, pubs turning to wine shops and the rise of "farm shops" which sell high-quality local produce.