London’s housing crisis: Instead of building east or building up, it’s time for managed release of green belt land October 26, 2015 The capital’s housing crisis is an issue often swept under the carpet in people’s cramped, sub-standard living rooms. Having just launched its Housing and Planning Bill, the government is continuing to reassure people about that its plans to roll out one million new homes by 2020 in order to solve the sticky situation in which [...]
London house prices: This is who the capital’s prime rental tenants are, what they do, where they live and how much they pay for the privilege October 26, 2015 Ever wondered who those people are that are paying upwards of £8,000 a week to live in one of the capital's swankiest pads? Well, fellow nosy neighbours, wonder no more. In prime central London, a number of tribes have been identified by lettings agent EJ Harris, showing an increase in international tenants across the board [...]
Government’s Lloyds Banking Group share sell off attracting huge number of first-time investors, claims Hargreaves Lansdown October 26, 2015 The government's plan to sell off £2bn-worth of Lloyds Banking Group shares is attracting first-time investors in their droves, creating a new generation of "Tell Sids". Hargreaves Lansdown, which has received more than 170,000 individual registrations to take part in the public offering next spring, estimates that one in eight people have never invested in equities [...]
Hargreaves Lansdown hires Amlin chief investment officer Jayne Styles as new investment committee chair October 26, 2015 Hargreaves Lansdown has hired Jayne Styles as an independent non-executive director and chairman of the asset manager's investment committee. Styles has been Amlin's chief investment officer since 2002, where she oversees strategy, governance and operations of a multi-manager portfolio totalling £4.25bn in global assets. She is also a member of the Amlin management committee, which sets corporate strategy for [...]
Crossrail: Latest images from Bond Street show how close London’s infrastructure project is to completion October 23, 2015 Crossrail may be another two or three years from completion, but the latest images released from London's £14.8bn infrastructure project show that the tunnels 30 metres below Oxford Street have already been finished. The western ticket hall on Davies Street is now "structurally complete" while excavation of the eastern hall on Hanover Square is due to finish [...]
From TalkTalk’s hack and the clocks going back to mountainous commutes and where to get the best quality of life: Here’s what got us talking this week October 23, 2015 NULL
Peckham Coal Line gets 11th hour funding boost from Southwark Council, taking it closer to Spacehive crowdfunding target October 23, 2015 A crowdfunding initiative to create an “elevated urban park” in south London is just £3,000 off its target, after receiving an 11th-hour boost from Southwark Council. The Peckham Coal Line project has been seeking £65,000 to convert the abandoned Rickett coal sidings that run between Queen's Road Peckham and Peckham Rye train stations into a [...]
Take the stairs up from the Tube? You’re climbing the equivalent of Mount Everest in months at these Underground stations October 23, 2015 When it comes to your daily commute are you a stander or a stair-taker? If you opt for the latter, you could be scaling the equivalent of one of the world's highest mountains with every step. Walking up the stairs instead of taking the lift from London's deepest Tube station Hampstead adds up to 320 steps [...]
Customer service: How brands like Ryanair have taken it from ugly sister to Cinderella October 23, 2015 During our annual convention on customer service in Glasgow next month, one of the key speakers will be Carol Anne O’Neill of Ryanair. This might strike you as ironic given the budget airline’s historically poor reputation for pared down, no frills customer service. But it’s a clear sign of how the times are a changin’ [...]
Monsoon Accessorize tops government list of minimum wage offenders October 23, 2015 Womenswear retailer Monsoon has topped a government list of companies failing to pay staff the national minimum wage. An HMRC investigation found 115 non-compliant companies, which have today been named and shamed as owning workers nearly £400,000 in the last year, spanning sectors including hairdressing, retail, education, catering and social care. On 1 October 2015, the National Minimum Wage (NMW) [...]
