Last night, The Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor of London, Alderman Alastair King DL, hosted the annual Defence and Security Lecture, welcoming Defence Secretary John Healey. The City of London Corporation plays a vital role in national resilience – from…
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Lady Mayor’s Show: 8th November 2025
For the first time in its more than 800-year history, the City of London’s world-famous Lord Mayor’s Show will next month become the ‘Lady Mayor’s Show’. Alderwoman Dame Susan Langley DBE, who was elected last month as the 697th Lord…
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Bishopsgate: Liverpool Street Station – 8 Days of Closures (Christmas 2025)
Passengers using rail services across London and Cambridgeshire are being reminded to check before travelling this Christmas for planned engineering work taking place which may affect rail journeys. This Christmas, passengers are being encouraged to check their journey plans before…
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Epping Forest & Commons Committee Dinner
It is tradition in the City of London that each Grand Committee Chairman hosts an annual dinner to draw together the key internal and external partners who work with the Committee to manage our 5 open spaces charities across Greater…
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City of London Corporation: Projects and Procurement Transformation Programme
As the City of London Corporation’s Chairman of Projects and Procurement, I have been working with our Officer and Member teams to pull together a programme of transformation, to support the Corporation in its ambition to achieving value for money,…
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Bishopsgate: Flytipping at St Ethelburgas
Thank-you to those who have reported flytipping outside of St Ethelburga-the-Virgin within Bishopsgate. The City of London Corporation’s local environment manager at our contractor Veolia have inspected the waste (not the nicest job!) and have found sufficient evidence to identify…
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Epping Forest: Committee Visit to Copped Hall – October 2025
This morning, the Epping Forest and Commons Committee welcomed Councillors and Officers from across the City of London Corporation to Copped Hall in Epping Forest to see some of the projects underway through its Climate Action Strategy. The strategy has…
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Bishopsgate: Weekly Planning Applications
This notice gives details of applications registered by the Department of The Built Environment Code: FULL/FULEIA/FULMAJ/FULLR3 – Planning Permission; LBC – Listed Building Consent; MDC – Submission of Details; TPO – Tree Preservation Order 100 Liverpool Street London EC2M 2AT…
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Burnham Beeches & Stoke Common: Committee Visit – October 2025
Today, the Epping Forest and Commons Committee hosted a site visit to Burnham Beeches and Stoke Common in Buckinghamshire. It is one of the five charities the Committee is responsible for, alongside Epping Forest (in the London Boroughs of Redbridge,…
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Brambly Hedge Trail brings storybook magic to Epping Forest
On 24th July 2024, I had noticed that the government’s Rural England Prosperity Fund was advertising capital grants of up to £50,000 for local arts, cultural, heritage and creative activities, especially those which delivered improvements to local rural green spaces.…
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