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Sadiq Khan explains his controversial U-turn to back green belt house-building

Mayor has faced a backlash over his plan to build homes on parts of London’s green belt

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan to announce plans to build houses on London green belt

Mayor to make major policy shift and say scale of housing crisis requires breaking taboo

The Guardian - UK

Sadiq Khan: 'We must build on green belt to ease London's housing crisis'

Mayor’s critics warn his plan marks ‘a devastating blow to the environment and our green spaces’

Evening Standard

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Sadiq Khan unveils plan to rip up green belt to build flats for Londoners

The controversial move is likely to face opposition from environmental campaigners

The Independent UK

Khan to back building homes on London’s green belt amid housing crisis

The Mayor of London is expected to announce plans to ‘actively explore’ the proposals in a bid to fix London’s housing crisis.

The Independent UK

Sadiq Khan urged to help 'alarming' number of care leavers not working or studying

Young people leaving care face a ‘cliff edge’ when they turn 18 and suddenly lack adequate support, mayor warned

Evening Standard

London cladding scandal: Sadiq Khan hails 'significant step' in making other tall buildings safer

Work is yet to start on more than 1,500 residential blocks in the capital with flammable cladding

Evening Standard

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High-rise London: Why developers are being 'forced' to build more tall buildings in the capital

‘There is a lack of understanding of what a successful tall building is and not enough is being done to measure it’, London Assembly warns

Evening Standard

London school closures: Prominent Labour MP says cost of living crisis means families can't afford capital

Family seeking housing in Camden offered a place in Manchester - while Enfield council considers buying homes in Liverpool

Evening Standard

Huge £1.3 billion development at Mortlake goes ahead after 10-year planning battle

Mixed use scheme will deliver 1,068 homes and a secondary school for 1,200 pupils

Evening Standard

Banning cars in city centres has worked around the world. Why isn’t London’s Oxford Street pedestrianised yet?

From Sydney to Seoul, the results have been positive. It’s time for Sadiq Khan to put his foot down, says writer and curator Phineas Harper

The Guardian - UK

Trafalgar Square to host first basketball competition with NBA event

A school’s basketball tournament will come to Trafalgar Square on June 6

Evening Standard

A London 2040 Olympics is alluring but do gold medals bring cities a golden future?

New research has shown there was a positive impact during London 2012 but the legacy effects appear to be short-lived

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Susan Hall is back — and Sadiq Khan and Labour should be very worried

She was once dubbed “the one Sadiq Khan fears”. The phrase was splashed on billboards, blared from vans and echoed across social media. For a while, Susan Hall was everywhere. But it was more than just a line, it was a warning. A warning to a Mayor who had coasted…

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Bereaved families urge Sadiq Khan to honour pledge to ban gambling ads on Tube

Families who have lost relatives to gambling-related suicide beg mayor to act on his 2021 pledge to ban betting and casino ads on London transport

Evening Standard

Crime's up in London - but the capital's still safer than Manchester, according to latest police data

Manchester worse for total crime rate, violence, stalking and sexual offences

Fortune

Ikea’s new central London store has learned from ‘a lot of mistakes’ over 7 years

“We have [made] a lot of mistakes when designing city location stores,” Ikea’s Tolga Öncü told Fortune.

Evening Standard

TfL’s war on fare dodgers stepped up amid concern of surge in ‘gate-pushers’

Efforts to target bus network hampered by lack of Met police support

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First look inside Oxford Street's long awaited flagship Ikea store after £450m investment

Around 60,000 shoppers a week are expected to visit the shop in the former Topshop flagship

The Guardian - UK

UK Ikea boss backs calls to pedestrianise Oxford Street as flagship store opens

New outlet due to welcome shoppers on Thursday regarded as key to helping revive famous London thoroughfare

Evening Standard

Report warns London is 'a long way off' eliminating new HIV cases by 2030

Research finds that the decline in new diagnoses in London ‘appears to have stalled’, raising questions about mayor Sadiq Khan’s end-of-decade target

Evening Standard

Susan Hall reclaims Tory leadership at City Hall and pledges to renew battle with Sadiq Khan

Surprise as defeated mayoral candidate returns as Tory group leader on the London Assembly

Evening Standard

Book exchange libraries to be reinstated at some Tube stations after mayor orders review of his own fire rules

15 stations will see ‘community libraries’ return after TfL finds solution

Evening Standard

OPINION - Get real TfL, it'll take more than posters to silence the headphone dodgers

Putting up a few paper posters isn’t going to help one jot

Evening Standard

Chelsea urged to start stadium talks as Twickenham issues revealed amid Stamford Bridge dilemma

Temporary move to Twickenham unlikely to receive support from local council

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