I’ve met a number of Bishopsgate businesses recently who have raised concerns at the volume of e-bikes and e-scooters being left scattered across the pavement, blocking pedestrian walkways and creating trip hazards. This relatively new method of transport is an…
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Epping Forest Celebrates 100 Years of Sir Winston Churchill
100 years ago today, on Wednesday 29th October 1924, a general election took place following a vote of no confidence in the labour minority government led by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. It was the third general election to take place in…
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Liverpool Street Station: Lift Maintenance Works
Transport for London have written to me this week to inform me of planned lift maintenance coming up on three of the seven lifts at Moorgate/Liverpool Street Elizabeth line stations, that will affect step-free access for customers travelling on the…
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City of London: Will We End Rough Sleeping by 2027?
The core purpose of local Councillors is to seek to represent the views of their constituents in setting the strategy and policy for the organisation, to ensure that the organisation has the resources it needs to deliver its agreed outcomes…
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Bishopsgate: St Botolph Without Animal Blessing Service
A message from Fr. David Armstrong: In just over a month’s time, we will hold our Animal Blessing Service here at St Botolph’s. Each year we host this special service on the Friday closest to St Francis’s Feast Day which…
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Bishopsgate: Annual Voter Registration
Each year, the City of London Corporation write to all of the businesses and residents who occupy property within the Square Mile, asking them to return a registration form which allows them to vote in City elections. As with most…
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Bishopsgate: Half Term ‘Intro to Architecture’ Workshop
Calling all budding architects, future designers, natural creatives, urban explorers – aged between 14-17, living on Mansell and Middlesex Street Estates. Join us for a free 3-day creative workshop (30 Oct-1 Nov) exploring building(s), design, history – and making stuff…
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Bishopsgate: 1 Exchange Square – Green Roofs & Living Walls Plan
This week, the City of London Corporation has received 1 Exchange Square’s plans to introduce green roofs and walls. Green roofs and living walls act as natural air filters, with plants absorbing pollutants and CO2 while releasing oxygen through photosynthesis. In…
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Banksy Installation Appears in the City of London
There has been much excitement over the past 24 hours, following street artist Banksy’s announcement on Instagram that they had been responsible for the redecoration of a City of London Police sentry box on Ludgate Hill with a piranha design.…
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Bishopsgate: Street Cleaning Improvements
Regular readers will be aware that I have written about the declining standards of cleanliness in Bishopsgate, particularly around Liverpool Street Station before (here and here). Data from the City Corporation, an audit by Keep Britain Tidy and feedback from…
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