On London is run by Dave Hill, formerly the Guardian's award-winning London commentator, and written by him and an array of fellow Londoncentrics.It aims to improve the quality of coverage of London politics, development and culture.

2024年12月31日 · London as a place, a society and the big engine of the national economy entered 2024 still recovering from the pandemic and changed by it in ways that weren’t yet clear. Its people’s fortunes were mixed and its governance bodies were hoping for a better deal from a new national government later in the year. […]

4 天之前 · This website was launched by me in a more rudimentary form on 1 February 2017 as a place where I could continue to write about the politics, places and people of London in the way I wanted to, having previously been the Guardian’s self-publishing London commentator since 2008. Today, eight years on, OnLondon.co.uk is an established, multi-contributor journalism website providing coverage of ...

This website was launched on 1 February 2017 by me, award-winning former Guardian London commentator Dave Hill. I run and edit the site. Its goal is to provide the best possible news, analysis and commentary about the UK capital’s politics, development and culture. OnLondon carries articles by a wide range of contributors who disagree about […]

2025年1月27日 · In an unexpected City Hall statement at last week’s opening of the public inquiry stage of Enfield’s Local Plan, Sir Sadiq Khan formally accepted for the first time that releasing protected Green Belt land to help meet housing need in the capital has become “unavoidable”.. The Enfield plan, the council’s development roadmap up to 2041, proposes controversially allowing some 9,000 new ...

2025年1月27日 · Last year, the City of London Corporation announced that its plans to relocate the capital’s trio of wholesale food markets to a new, consolidated site beside the Thames at Dagenham Dock would not be going ahead after all and that, far from sticking with the status quo instead, Smithfield (meat) and Billingsgate (fish) would be closing anyway. It was decided that only New Spitalfields in ...

2024年12月23日 · London’s boroughs do not expect local government finance settlements to be warming seasonal gifts. Rather, they anticipate these annual pre-Christmas arrivals being metaphorical pins that will burst any balloons of festive hope naively inflated in civic centres and town halls. They prepare responses expressing tempered disappointment. Rarely does that effort go to waste. The national […]

2024年1月1日 · London’s spectacular New Year fireworks, lights and drones display was seen by millions around the world, providing a global reminder that the United Kingdom’s capital is among the foremost international cities in the world.

2025年1月15日 · On London is run by Dave Hill, formerly the Guardian's award-winning London commentator, and written by him and an array of fellow Londoncentrics.It aims to improve the quality of coverage of London politics, development and culture.

2025年1月16日 · The government’s overall housing target for London was, let us recall, set last September at a heroic 81,000 new dwellings a year for the next five years, a figure described by Angela Rayner in her letter to Sadiq Khan as “ambitious but deliverable” and by others as very little less absurd than the 100,000 it was reduced from.. As Rayner herself observed to the Mayor, the London average ...