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• The London Buzz – 2nd January 2025

  02-01-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Transport for London is proposing to alter the numbers 30 and 205 bus routes along Euston Road and is asking passengers to respond to a public consultation on the plans. Fitzrovia News
  The number of festive shoppers on London’s streets has fallen by less than in the rest of the UK, according to retail analysts. BBC News
  A teenager from Dagenham is among three arrested after a fatal crash in Buckhurst Hill on Christmas Eve. Romford Recorder
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• Southwark tube station development amended in favour of flats and student housing

  02-01-2025 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans for an office block to be built above Southwark tube station could be revised, as a new scheme with an art deco-inspired design has been submitted for planning approval.
  Consented and proposed schemes
  The consented scheme, approved in 2022, would be for a single large commercial block with 25 affordable flats. The amended design would see two towers, one for students and one providing 44 affordable flats, representing 35% of habitable rooms as a percentage of the 429 student habitable stud
  
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• Undersea sabotage response is a dangerous business

  02-01-2025 14:10
  
  Holding shady sailors to account would be a lot less perilous than risking war with a powerful nation
  
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• Hampton Court Palace gardens free open days 2025

  02-01-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The expansive gardens surrounding Hampton Court Palace are open to visitors for free a few weekends each year, and the dates for 2025 have been announced.
  Spring 2023 (c) ianVisits
  As it happens, the gardens used to be free to wander around every morning, but that changed after the pandemic, and now they’re only open a few days a year — but the upside is that they’re open for the entire day.
  The gardens are huge and exceptionally varied, ranging from neat formal box-hedged spac
  
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• Westminster Council wants to ban estate agent’s For Sale boards

  02-01-2025 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Westminster Council plans to ban estate agents from placing for-sale signs outside buildings unless explicit permission is requested for each one.
  AI generated image of a generic street with estate agent signs
  At the moment, UK law permits most buildings to display a For Sale sign to advertise that they’re for sale under the principle of “deemed consent,” so long as the sign complies with size and placement regulations.
  However, councils can restrict the use of For Sale signs i
  
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• There’s a replica of Denmark’s famous Jelling Stone next to Regent’s Park

  02-01-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Around the side of a Victorian church next to Regents Park you can find a very large decorated runestone celebrating the creation of Denmark as a nation state.It’s actually a replica of Denmark’s famous Jelling Stone, and was installed next to Regents Park in 1955. Although it looks like stone, it’s a plaster cast, made in 1948 for the V&A Museum’s exhibition of Danish heritage. The stone wasn’t inside the exhibition but mounted on the pavement outside as an adv
  
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