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A second attempt to build homes around High Barnet tube station announced

27-11-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Under plans being put forward by Barratt London and TfL’s Places for London, approximately 300 new homes could be built around High Barnet tube station on the Northern line.
Initial concept image (c) Barratt London
High Barnet is a northern terminus for the Northern line and sits at the bottom of a slope alongside sidings for used to store tube trains when not in use. The station wasn’t built for the London Underground and opened in 1872 as a mainline railway between Finsbury and Hig

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£2.8M project to transform Westbourne Green canalside path approved

27-11-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

A section of canal walkway in Paddington is to get a makeover after Westminster Council approved funding for the works to start.
Westbourne Green Canalside (c) Westminster Council
At the moment, there’s a length of canal path in Westbourne Green that runs alongside a fenced-off park. It can be described as a bit of a sandwich — there’s the canal path, then a fence, then a cycle lane, another pedestrian path, and then the park.
The Westbourne Green Canalside project will see the

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An end to tube strikes as RMT union accepts London Underground pay offer

27-11-2024 12:15 via ianvisits.co.uk

London Underground staff members of the RMT union have accepted a pay rise, which will end the ongoing series of tube strikes.Under the terms of the pay deal, lower-paid staff will receive raises between 5% and 6.6%, with the average increase across all staff of 4.6%, which is paid as a mix of a pay rise on their salary and a one-off payment.
TfL’s plans to introduce pay banding, in the form of job families, onto spot salaries have been withdrawn. An attrempt by TfL to introduce performanc

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The historic Smithfields and Billingsgate markets expected to close in 2028

27-11-2024 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

The City of London has made the decision to break away from centuries of direct control over several of its food markets.
Smithfields meat market auction 2023 (c) ianVisits
The decision taken in a closed meeting of the Court of Common Council yesterday will see the meat market at Smithfields and the Billingsgate fish market at Tower Hamlets close down, and the traders offered support to move out to another site.
The City had planned to move the two markets to a new site in Dagenham Dock, along w

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