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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Councillors Richard Elcho and Emily Payne have worked quickly to put in place a local response, including support groups, telephone partnering, Local shopping deliveries and entertainment.
We have set up a special website - Bayswater Covid19 Support - to coordinate our community response.
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Your local councillors Lindsey, Peter and Judith are happy to report we have secured on-going agreement and funding for our wonderful hanging baskets for the streets of the Abbey Road Ward.
"We hope they give local people as much pleasure as they do our visitors, for when they return" said Lin
