Grade II listed Crystal Palace sports venue set for major overhaul May 22, 2025 The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has unveiled new images of plans for the overhaul of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre. The redevelopment of the Grade II listed multi-sport venue – which hosted the first Women’s FA Cup final and Usain Bolt as well as events such as Grand Prix motorracing – is set [...]
Exclusive: E1 Series set for London debut in showcase on Thames May 22, 2025 Electric powerboat series E1, which features teams owned by stars including Will Smith, LeBron James and Rafael Nadal, will make its London debut this summer. An exhibition of E1’s high-speed RaceBird boats is set to take place on the Thames near Westminster on 2 July as the series looks to build its presence in the [...]
Sadiq Khan’s green belt U-turn is an admission of failure on housing May 15, 2025 Sadiq Khan is spinning his plan to build on London’s green belt as a “radical change of approach”, but it’s nothing of the sort. It will have a very limited impact on housing starts during this mayoral term and may only add to the political heat around house building, says James Ford Margaret Thatcher famously [...]
Green belt homes ‘needed’ to solve housing crisis, Sadiq Khan says May 15, 2025 London is suffering a chronic housing shortage. Lacklustre rates of housebuilding have helped push up the cost of a home to well beyond the reach of ordinary Londoners. The price of an average terrace house in Camden has roughly tripled compared to twenty years ago to more than £1.5m today, Land Registry data shows, while [...]
The Debate: Should we build on the green belt? May 14, 2025 As Sadiq Khan commits to releasing parts of the green belt, we get two experts to make the case for and against in this week's Debate.
Thames Tideway: Just how super is London’s new super sewer? May 14, 2025 “A national scandal,” Sadiq Khan said of the amount of sewage pumped into the River Thames last year. But it took more than the Mayor of London to spur national revulsion at the state of England’s longest river. Fast forward a few months and the spotlight had fallen on the 2024 Oxford-Cambridge boat race in [...]
Plans to build UK’s largest arena in London revealed by Co-op Live owner May 14, 2025 The live entertainment giant which co-owns the UK’s largest indoor arena, Co-op Live, is looking at building up to two new venues in London at a cost of around £1.5bn. Speaking to City AM, Oak View Group (OVG) chief executive Tim Leiweke revealed plans for up to two arenas are currently being considered with the [...]
Home Secretary defends PM’s immigration speech after backlash May 13, 2025 The Home Secretary has defended the Prime Minister’s choice of language after he received criticism for claiming that the UK risked becoming “an island of strangers” without major reform to the immigration system. Former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, who was suspended from Labour after voting against welfare reforms, posted on X: “Talk of an “island [...]
London Lions CEO Lenz Balan: ‘I’ve made mistakes. I’m doing all I can to give back’ May 13, 2025 It would have been little surprise if last summer proved the last that British basketball heard of Lenz Balan and the London Lions. CEO Balan was a vice-president at former owner 777 Partners, whose now notorious collapse led to the club falling into administration and the league going bust almost a year ago and, for [...]
‘Imperative’ that Oxford Street pedestrianisation includes hospitality May 9, 2025 The Mayor of London’s plan to pedestrianise Oxford Street must offer visitors “a mix of hospitality, leisure and retail” if it is to be successful – including eating and drinking spaces scattered through the middle of what used to be the road – the UK’s top hospitality lobby group has said. Writing to Sir Sadiq [...]