Transport for London spends £3m on counselling stressed-out workers April 13, 2015 Between 2010 and 2014, Transport for London (TfL) spent £3m on counselling employees suffering from stress-related problems such as anxiety and depression, a Freedom of Information (FoI) request has revealed. The FoI request, made by capital-focused business side LondonLovesBusiness.com, revealed a total of 4,700 members of staff had to be given professional help during the [...]
Focus on Bermondsey: Take a walk on the south side April 9, 2015 Affordable housing in Zone One is becoming something of a rarity in London, but look just south of the river and you’ll find one area in particular that’s still a decent prospect for first-time buyers looking for a good investment. Paul Bent, sales manager at Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward’s London Bridge branch says young professionals [...]
Forget Shoreditch: How to turn an industrial relic into a home in shabby chic Archway April 9, 2015 As residential values in London have sky-rocketed, more disused commercial buildings are being converted into homes. A few years ago, it would have been unheard of for apartments to be more profitable than office space but there are a few boroughs in London where this is increasingly true. And there are no spaces more suited [...]
Tories vow to freeze commuter rail fares April 9, 2015 The cost of rail season tickets will be frozen in real terms throughout the next parliament under plans announced as part of the Conservative party’s General Election manifesto. Train companies’ regulated fares – which include commuter season tickets – will only be able to rise, on average, at the rate of retail price inflation (known [...]
City Moves for 09 April 2015 | Who’s switching jobs April 8, 2015 Lambert Smith Hampton The commercial property consultancy has promoted Sean Brew to lead its London team, following its acquisition of ES Group last month. He joined in 2011 from DTZ to head Lambert Smith Hampton’s national property and asset management team. M&G Real Estate Kerry Williams has been appointed retail investment director at M&G’s real [...]
London should embrace new technology to make car ownership pointless April 8, 2015 London could lead a revolution in car use and car ownership over the next decade, by divorcing the two. It may soon be unnecessary to own a car to secure the full benefits of car ownership, due to a combination of continued improvement in public transport, the surge in app-based car hire services, and the [...]
EE launches Wifi Calling service: From Friday you can make calls and send texts on the Tube (but so can everyone else) April 8, 2015 This is either the best thing since sliced bread or the worst news of the year. From Friday, you will be able to make phone calls on the Tube. While that's great news for anyone who's ever got stuck on the Central/Northern/District/all the other lines, it also means you can wave goodbye to the one [...]
Selling off surplus public sector land could lead to more than 100,000 new homes in London March 31, 2015 Over 100,000 homes could be built in London surplus public land was sold back into the marketplace. The findings are one of a number of points made in an analysis of the London Land Commission that was set up George Osborne in February. Business group London First and law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner, believe that [...]
Bad news if you travel through Elephant & Castle – prepare for commuter disruption for the next year March 31, 2015 If you travel through Elephant & Castle to get to work, prepare yourselves for more than a year of disruption as part of the Crossrail for Bikes project gets underway. The northern roundabout at the south London junction is being overhauled by Transport for London to provide two-way traffic, dedicated cycle lanes and safer pedestrian [...]
Southwark Council calls for 50pc compensation for delays from London Bridge March 31, 2015 Commuters grappling with the travel chaos at London Bridge should receive an automatic 50 per cent refund if their train is late, a London council has said. Southwark Council is writing to the Department of Transport to ask for a compensation scheme to be set up after widespread problems at the station, which is [...]