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The London Buzz – 9th January 2025

09-01-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s London news round-up:
The NHS in London is encouraging people to get vaccinated against flu, with latest figures showing more people with flu in the capital’s hospitals than at any point last year. NHS
City Hall’s ambitious plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street will not come at a cost to the capital’s taxpayers, Sir Sadiq Khan confirmed to the London Assembly yesterday. OnLondon
The London Fire Brigade’s search for a new headquarters when the lease on its Un

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Four free Winter Lights festivals to enjoy across London

09-01-2025 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

This winter, four free outdoor light displays will be held across London, as the idea of luring people out of their warm homes on winter evenings is becoming increasingly popular.
The Southbank and Canary Wharf have had winter lights festivals for many years. Then Battersea Power Station joined in a few years ago, and this year, so will Westfield shopping centre in Shepherds Bush.
Three are put on by shopping centres, trying to lure you into spending any left-over cash you might have after Chris

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Social housing project faces extra costs due to Bakerloo line extension

09-01-2025 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

A housing development on the Old Kent Road is being affected by the future Bakerloo line extension, as it will sit right above the safeguarded land for the tube tunnels, if and when they are built.
Proposed block of flats on Old Kent Road – Levitt Bernstein
As the housing development is a social housing project, Southwark Council has agreed to use some of its developer contributions (CIL) to offset the extra costs of building above the future tube tunnels.
What’s needed is to ensure

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Van Gogh exhibition to open overnight before it closes

09-01-2025 11:17 via ianvisits.co.uk

If you fancy visiting the National Gallery at 2am, you will be able to later this month, as their staggeringly popular Van Gogh exhibition will open throughout the night.On Saturday 18th January, the gallery will open from midnight to 8am, giving people the double bonus of a last chance to visit the almost sold out exhibition, and do so at a rather unusual hour.
A chance to see sunflowers glowing in the gallery while the moon glows outside and wander home as the partygoers start to stagger out o

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