As the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood project draws to a close we are seeking your participation in a short survey to evaluate the project. Your participation in the survey will help us to improve our working practices on future schemes across the city.  

Westminster Matters: An update from Cllr Nickie Aiken, Leader of Westminster City Council

It has been an incredibly busy time since I last updated you on the work of Conservative-run Westminster City Council.

Sadly we continue to see an increase in the number of rough sleepers on our streets. Westminster attracts more than the next four boroughs combined. Being the “capital of the capital” has always meant more people bedding down on our streets.

The Baker Street Two Way Scheme went live on Sunday 24th February. Councillors with past and present members of the Marylebone Association and St Marylebone Society gathered to watch traffic flow northwards along Baker Street for the first time in many decades. 

The work to reintroduce two-way traffic on Baker Street and Gloucester Place www.bakerstreettwoway.co.uk is now in its final stages with the switch over planned to be undertaken from 21st – 24th February (weather permitting). This means closure of

Work has begun in earnest on construction in St Vincent Street (Howard de Walden development) and the Moxon Street Car Park (Concord Development).

In the coming weeks, Westminster City Council and Transport for London (TfL), will be announcing the dates for the switch to two-way operation. This will be disseminated via the project website (www.bakerstreettwoway.co.uk), the weekly email update

Your Councillors are constructively acting on residents’ concerns about air quality in Marylebone with interventions in the LEN. Ideas from which are being looked at across the Council.

The City of Westminster is set to have its first ever Labour Lord Mayor after an agreement by the council’s Conservative and Labour Groups.

You may have noticed that our trees have started to shed their leaves. From 5th November, Westminster City County began implementing its ‘Leafing Plan’.