Dave Hill

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Writer, Founder and Editor at OnLondon

London's politics, places & people. Runs website @OnLondon. Has Substack: https://davehillonlondon. Podcasts & trustee @LondonSoc. aka @VaneWriter. Busy.

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Oxford Street: Who should be in charge?

5 days ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

Sir Sadiq Khan is pressing ahead with his plans for changing Oxford Street after consultation responses showed strong support for the principle of pedestrianisation, and even more for the creation of a Mayoral Development Corporation (MDC) to put his ambitions into effect. But arguments about who should be in charge of “the nation’s high street” and its immediate surroundings have not gone away.
Government notes 'substantial work' on DLR extension scheme

1 week ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

Was there some miscommunication in recent days between Whitehall and City Hall over the vexed question of Sir Sadiq Khan’s top transport investment priority, the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) extension to Thamesmead? During Thursday’s Mayor’s Question Time session, the Mayor doubled down on his criticism of last week’s government Spending Review announcement, which did not include funding for any transport schemes in London.
London still UK's most productive area

1 week ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

London continues to be far the most economically productive part of the United Kingdom, with output per hour worked a massive 28.5 per cent above the UK national average, while the performances of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and every other English region except the South East fall below it, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics.
A million children in households with inadequate London incomes

1 week ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

More than a million London children are growing up in households with incomes that fall short of what is needed for a “basic but dignified standard of living”, according to a report focussing on the impact on families of the capital’s ‘s high housing and childcare costs.
Dave Hill: Labour takes sides against London at its peril

1 week ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

I wish Rachel Reeves had run her spending review speech past me before delivering it to the House. I could have made two small but helpful changes. One would have been to add to her list of transport schemes important to the building of “homes for working people” in urban areas an extension of the Docklands Light Railway to Beckton and Thamesmead.
Labour defers to Nigel of the North

2 weeks ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

Yesterday’s parliamentary theatre was more of a comedy than its authors had in mind, one of the absurdist kind.
Manchester's low tax approach to competing with London

2 weeks ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

For some months, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has faced criticism and legal pressure for facilitating housing schemes in his area that are all “luxury” and no “affordable” – the sort of thing his counterpart in London, Sir Sadiq Khan, has rules against. Burnham’s administration has been loaning many millions of pounds to a property developer to build towers of deluxe, market-priced flats (pictured).
Rest of UK gets more transport funding per journey than London

2 weeks ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

More public transport passenger journeys have been taken annually in London in recent years than in the rest of the UK combined, yet the capital has received barely a third of the amount of national government transport funding given to the rest of England, Scotland and Wales, according to a Treasury analysis.
Dave Hill: The country needs Londoners to be housed better

2 weeks ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

Angela Rayner, we are told, has worked out with Rachel Reeves how much money her department, which covers housing and local government, will have for the next few years. It needs to be a big, beautiful deal. The Deputy Prime Minister wants 88,000 new homes a year built in London, a huge chunk of her five-year national target of 1.5 million. The figure lies far beyond the highest hopes of anyone in the capital’s housing sector. Major public investment will be vital to getting anywhere near it.
Ten big reasons why not enough homes are being built in London

2 weeks ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

After last year’s general election, with the help of top drawer experts, I wrote about why no work had started on building the 300,000 homes across Greater London for which planning consents had been given. Close to one year later, construction and development are still deeper in the doldrums and the same passage of time has seen the government set the capital the target of getting new homes built at a rate of 88,000 a year.

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Dave Hill @DaveHill

7 Jun 25

Is "gentrification" emptying London's schools? It's really not that simple: https://t.co/PWoXoJPDXo #London

Dave Hill @DaveHill

7 Jun 25

It is simplistic Left-populism to claim that "luxury" flats "push out" established communities. Often, permission for "luxury" flats to be built is conditional on low-cost rent & shared ownership hopes also being provided. It's long been a key mechanism for "affordable" supply.