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Excellent piece from Dave Hill. A big issue and a major challenge...

HS Walsh & Sons' Royal Warrant, first granted in 2016 and renewed in 2021, has been reissued by King Charles III! 👏 Find out more: ow.ly/FPol50UMzpZ

Getting UK construction employment back to 2019 Q1 levels requires 281,180 more construction workers & getting it back to 2008 Q3 levels requires 443,456 more workers. Construction apprenticeship starts average 31,000 per year & the dropout rate is over 40%. #ukconstruction

Seriously impressive scaffolding at Imperial College London!

Today Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan launches London’s Growth Plan to unlock the capital’s economic potential. Developed with London & Partners, London Councils and cross-sector leaders, the plan aims to turbocharge productivity and make our economy £107bn larger in 2035.

We are thrilled to announce that the Central District Alliance (CDA) Business Improvement District (BID) has been successful in its 2025 ballots and will continue to serve the areas of Holborn, Bloomsbury, St Giles, Clerkenwell & Farringdon for a further five years!

Great to see Camden's £1m extra street cleaning investment in action 😃 Including regular jet washing of high streets – now reinstated after the years of austerity 🧹 Camden Labour 🌹

An inspiring evening at our event on Urban Rebuilding & Regeneration!🏙️ Authors Rosemary Scanlon & Patrice Derrington joined an all-women panel, including Karen Cook, Ruth Duston OBE OC, and Deborah Saunt, to share lessons from Lower Manhattan’s revival. #WomensWeek

After years of austerity and doughnut economics (where progress comes from reallocating the economic “pie”, support for economic growth as the number one priority appears to be back." Read my thoughts on the London Growth Plan here.... londonpropertyalliance.com/blog-the-londo…

PROUD 🇨🇦 🥲 Nothing like O Canada on #OpeningDay

After much planning and preparation (and head scratching for technical reasons), I am delighted to say we have *finally* got the outside of Holborn station resurfaced. This was a Central District Alliance funded scheme in partnership with Camden Council. Thank you to them and to FM Conway TfL!

One for you Roger Ford ...

Wise words from Paul Williams Derwent London London needs more office space to remain Europe’s HQ cityam.com/london-needs-m…

economist.com/britain/2025/0… is a good (if somewhat too forgiving) piece on the curse of modern phone boxes in Britain. This is a Hydra-like challenge to cleaning up our streets, driven by cynical corporate behaviour. Gory details here: createstreets.com/projects/box-b…

Excellent report. Lots to go at here - alongside the curse of out of control road works and ghastly modern "phone" boxes....

These roadworks for Westminster City Council by FM Conway on Charing Cross Road are causing traffic chaos across the West End and all the way to Holborn. No one is working on them. Combined with piles of rubbish, what a perfect welcome to thousands of tourists before a holiday weekend

… it matters! createstreets.com/projects/stree…

Great report from createstreets. What a shame the likes of BT make this work necessary. So much for their corporate ESG agenda...

“With youth mobility agreements already in place with countries including Australia, New Zealand and Uruguay, striking a similar deal with our largest trading partner should be a no-brainer. “Giving more young people opportunities to live, work and study in the UK temporarily in