OnLondon

Launched on February 1, 2017, by the award-winning former Guardian London commentator Dave Hill, this website serves as a platform for insightful news and commentary focused on the politics, development, and culture of the UK capital. OnLondon features a diverse range of contributors who may have differing opinions but are united in their goal to enhance the quality of reporting and discussions about London. Their shared mission is to make the city a better place for its residents and workers. We believe that whatever the ideal city looks like, we strive for London to embody it. While many consider London to be the greatest city in the world, others acknowledge its significant challenges. Interestingly, these perspectives often come from the same individuals. On London understands the complexity of these views. Thank you for stopping by!

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Dave Hill: Politics of The North versus London help no one

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

The government’s fast-approaching comprehensive spending review is being previewed in assorted ways, including with stories that areas “outside south-east England” will receive “billions of pounds of extra spending”. The telling of this story bears the ingrained insinuation that such monies, being “extra”, will demonstrate a recognition that a regional “rebalancing” needs to take place away from the part of the UK London sits at the heart of.
V&A East Storehouse is latest London 2012 legacy success

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

Another piece of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics legacy was slotted into place this morning with the ten o’clock opening to the public of V&A East Storehouse. The new space occupies an end of the larger of the two buildings next to the Lee Canal at Hackney Wick that originally formed the Games-time media centre, and now has a whole new life as Here East, a research, innovation and start-up complex.
'decriminalise' possession of small cannabis amounts

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

Possession of small amounts of natural cannabis for personal use should be decriminalised as part of a wider strategy for reducing harms associated with the drug, according to the London Drugs Commission set up by Sir Sadiq Khan three years ago, whose long-awaited report is published today.
Dave Hill: Is 'gentrification' in London emptying its schools? Maybe not

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

For most of this century at least, a conspicuous strand of opinion has declared that everything precious about London is being destroyed by big money, especially from abroad. These narratives construct causal connections between property development, especially of housing, and neighbourhood changes that bearers of those narratives dislike, such as the replacement of council-built housing, rises in rent levels and house prices, or the closure of entertainment venues.
Talk About London: Alexander Jan on transforming Oxford Street

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

Eight months have passed since Sir Sadiq Khan, backed by national government, announced his intention to revive his plan to bring pedestrianisation to Oxford Street by taking control of the “the nation’s high street” away from Westminster Council through the creation of a Mayoral Development Corporation, which would put City Hall in charge of its future. Since then, many words have been spoken and written about the project, and a public consultation has taken place.
Hackney: Woodberry Down revisited

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

Hackney Council concluded at the end of the last century that it could no longer afford to throw good money after bad at the Woodberry Down estate. The first residents had moved in in 1948 and social housing historian John Boughton tells us that by 1953 there were 6,500 people living in nearly 1,800 council homes there. For a while it was a bit of a showpiece. But you already know what happened next.
London's education story can grow still richer

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

Reasons for the success of London’s schools have been debate down the years since they changed from being some of the worst in the country at educating children to, by some distance, the best. How much credit should go to the programme of the last Labour government? How much to the high proportion of children of migrants from overseas, eager to succeed in the capital of the country their families have taken the huge step of making their own?
News: TfL reports increase in London road deaths and serious injuries

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

Road deaths and serious injuries (KSIs) in London increased sharply over the period covering December and the early months of this year to reach their highest level for that period since 2018/19, according to figures to be considered by a Transport for London panel next week.
Migration curbs that damage London will backfire

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

Immigration policies are hugely relevant to London, because one third of the UK’s foreign-born population lives in the capital, over 40 per cent of Londoners were born overseas, and migrants are crucial to the workings of the city, both as a society of nine million people and as a economic engine on which the whole nation depends. It feels a little weird to read the government’s immigration White Paper with a view to working out how much damage to London it might do.
Khan to 'actively explore' parts of Green Belt for homebuilding

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

Sir Sadiq Khan will today announce a major shift in planning policy by pledging to “actively explore” the release of selected parts of Green Belt land in Greater London for homebuilding. Speaking in Greenwich, the Mayor will say the “extraordinary challenge” presented by the capital’s escalating housing shortages requires a “radical step-change in our approach”, which “would allow us to unlock hundreds of thousands of good quality new homes for Londoners”.