Each year, the Lord Mayor of the City of London is invited to visit Burnham Beeches in Buckinghamshire (covered in 2024 here, 2023 here and 2022 here). It is an annual tradition for the Lord Mayor to inspect the condition…
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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 178 Bishopsgate London EC2M 4NQ Bishopsgate25/01232/MDCSubmission…
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FINMA and UK Regulators Sign MoU to Expand Cross-Border Financial Services under BFSA
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) and the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have formalized a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen regulatory coordination and facilitate cross-border financial services under the Berne Financial Services…
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Epping Forest: New Staff Induction Session
As regular readers will be aware, over the past couple of years Epping Forest’s operating structure has been undergoing a pretty radical transformation, including a staff restructure to attract new talent, retain existing talent and add resilience to the growing…
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City of London: New Justice Quarter ‘Tops Out’
The City of London Corporation has today celebrated the ‘topping out’ of the new flagship courts building at Salisbury Square, which will boost capacity in the criminal justice system to support the fight against fraud, economic and cyber crime. Alongside…
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City of London: ‘You Said We Did’ Report
As part of the City of London Corporation’s ‘residential re-set’, the Policy Chairman has been working hard to change the way the Corporation engages with and acts upon the feedback from residents in the square mile. This has included the…
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London Walking, Wheeling and Cycling Conference: Update from Bishopsgate Councillor Tom Sleigh
This week’s tube strike is a reminder of something we already know: walking, wheeling and cycling are essential to how London moves. This morning I had the pleasure of welcoming colleagues, campaigners and planners to Guildhall for the London Walking,…
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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 1 Appold Street London EC2A 2UU…
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Cyber Griffin Briefing at Vorboss: Update from Bishopsgate Councillor Shravan Joshi
Cybersecurity is usually a term that either gets confused looks, or gets the pulse racing amongst business owners! It was a pleasure to support Cyber Griffin at the event this week, kindly hosted by Vorboss, in the economic engine of…
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Bishopsgate: St. Botolph Without Church – September 2025 Newsletter
From the Rector:We are living in interesting times. Times when political boundaries are being remapped, times when the political Right is trying to camp on the traditional territory of the Left. Politicians, striving for the populist vote, are sowing hatred and…
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