A special update from Cllr Nickie Aiken, Leader of Westminster City Council

Planning Revolution

We have received plans from Royal Mail for a new in-store Post Office at The Fruit Garden on Melcombe Street, to open on Tuesday 6th November. Your Councillors fully support this proposal and the benefit it will bring to residents.

Marylebone Station is London’s only all-diesel station. Both residents and local Councillors have been actively lobbying Chiltern Railways to reduce diesel pollution.

Dear resident

Four months ago, the people of Westminster had their say in the hardest fought local election for many years. I am delighted and humbled that they overwhelmingly chose to put their trust once again in the local Conservatives to run their council.

We have been having regular meetings with the Dedicated Ward Officers for Bryanston and Dorset Square, Police Constables Darren Berry and Conor Hudson-Smith, to ensure that reports of Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) are dealt with promptly.

Councillor Murad Gassanly reporting back; 

A great result earlier this month, when the proposed planning application to build a hotel at 268-282 Vauxhall Bridge Road was refused unanimously by the planning committee following objections by the Vincent Square ward councillors David, Danny and Selina. 

A consultation with residents over the Seymour Leisure Centre and the Library yielded some excellent and thoughtful suggestions.

Silver Sunday was the brainchild of Warwick Ward Councillor Christabel Flight. It started with a tea dance and within a few short years has turned into a national campaign to tackle the blight of loneliness that affects so many older people.

As Westminster’s Head of Planning, Councillor Richard Beddoe is leading a campaign to for greater powers over the installation of phone boxes on our streets. In the last two years, the Council has rejected 170 applications for new telephone kiosks, on the grounds that their real purpose is to obt