Power cut leaves City offices in the dark Energy Central London was hit by a major power cut on Monday that stretched across dozens of postcodes and left swathes of the City in darkness. According UK Power Networks (UKPN), the body responsible for the upkeep of the electricity network, 33 postcodes were affected by the outage, including thousands of homes and major businesses in [...]
New City venue rethinks competitive socialising… again Life&Style You barely need to leave the Square Mile these days to play sport, with so many iconic sporting games accounted for in the City in one way or another. There’s axe throwing, darts, bowls, golf, and now the latest City competitive socialising launch is a new pool hall. Poolhouse has been designed by the teams [...]
‘Attention, please’: Rachel Reeves hails rail fare freeze over Liverpool Street tannoy Transport & Infrastructure Commuters arriving into Liverpool Street station have been serenaded by the Chancellor’s voice today. Rachel Reeves has taken over the key City transport artery to share the news of a freeze to rail fares – the first in 30 years. In a message read out over the tannoy periodically throughout Monday, Reeves opens with: “Testing, [...]
City of London gives green light to controversial Liverpool Street plans February 10, 2026 The City of London Corporation has granted planning permission to Network Rail’s controversial redevelopment of Liverpool Street station, with councillors saying it will be a “modern temple of transport”. The proposals will help increase the capacity and accessibility of Britain’s busiest railway station, but objectors warned that the scheme was “unviable and undeliverable”. In total, [...]
Top hotel chain calls for Liverpool Street scheme to be rejected February 9, 2026 A top hotel group has called for Network Rail’s £1.2bn Liverpool Street redevelopment to be rejected or deferred, warning that it might not ever be completed. James Francque, global head of transactions at Hyatt, said the scheme is “not financially viable, offers limited operational benefit, and carries a high risk of non-delivery.” “For these reasons, [...]
Liverpool Street redevelopment tipped to get green light February 5, 2026 The controversial redevelopment of Liverpool Street station has been tipped for approval despite receiving thousands of objections. Planning officers at the City of London Corporation recognised that the plans would cause harm to a number of heritage assets, including the station itself, but said the issues were “clearly and convincingly justified” given the wider benefits [...]
Knight Frank makes the City its global headquarters April 8, 2025 Knight Frank, the global asset management and real estate giant, has signed a deal to relocate its global headquarters to the City of London. The business will relocate from its current HQ at London & Regional’s 55 Baker Street in the West End, where it has been since 2008, to One Liverpool Street after penning an [...]
MIPIM: Sadiq Khan hails ‘perfect time’ to invest in London March 11, 2025 Sadiq Khan has said London’s “weather has changed” as he flew the flag for the capital at a major property conference in France. The mayor of London attended Europe’s biggest real estate trade show – Le Marché international des professionnels de l’immobilier, or MIPIM – in Cannes for the first time, just two weeks after [...]
Boxpark launches new concept alongside a new CEO March 5, 2025 Matt Snell grew up above a pub and has done “every single job there is to do in hospitality”. For the last seven years, he’s been running Italian chain Gusto, directing it through a set of unquestionably tough years for the hospitality sector. Now, he’s running London’s Boxpark – and spearheading the roll-out of its [...]
Flight to quality continues as firms rush to newly-green Spitalfields office February 26, 2025 Four firms will relocate to a newly-sustainable office block in Spitalfields in the latest wave of businesses to move from West London to the City of London. Railpen, International Copyright Enterprise (ICE) Services, Manpower UK and Bullhorn will take a combined five floors of the nine floored building, amounting to 42,921 sq ft of newly [...]