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  • Petition: May 19, 2013
  • The Bayswater Focus Team campaigning for more investment in cycling.
    Article: Apr 17, 2013

    London Lib Dems: 'Mayor's cycling vision lacks the investment to match'

    The Mayor has just announced his cycling vision for London. There are some positive improvements to be welcomed including segregated bike lanes, a network of borough quietways and existing cycle superhighway improvements.

    However, the £913 million promised for cycling over the next decade, only matches the budget provided for cycling in 2010. This despite a 155 per cent increase in people cycling. Bayswater campaigner, Anthony Williams, says, "Many residents in Bayswater are put off cycling in Westminster due to not feeling safe on our roads. Our Tory council does not even have a cycling strategy yet. Extra investment in cycle safety as well as introducing some 20mph zones would encourage more people to cycle".

  • Article: Apr 17, 2013

    'PROMISE MADE: PROMISE KEPT'

    Following the Bayswater Focus Team's recent Fairer Tax Campaign we are delighted the Lib Dems have delivered their flagship election promise to cut taxes for ordinary workers a year early. Local workers will be paying £600 less in income tax than they were in 2010 from this April. This will now rise to £700 next April.

  • Local Campaigner John Coburn is fighting against Tory cuts to Bayswater’s policing.
    Article: Apr 17, 2013

    TORY PLAN TO SLASH BAYSWATER POLICING

    Tory Mayor, Boris Johnson has produced a 'Draft Police and Crime Plan 2013-2017'. The plans will slash the Safer Neighbourhood Team to just one dedicated police constable and one dedicated PCSO. There are also plans to close police stations including Harrow Road and St John's Wood.

  • Jeremy Hill
    Article: Apr 16, 2013

    Marylebone High Street by-election

    Thursday 2nd May

    JEREMY HILL

    Liberal Democrat Candidate

    Fighting to keep London safe

    Dear Resident,

    I am writing to introduce myself and to seek your vote in the by-election on Thursday 2nd May.

    I live in Chiltern Street, five minutes' walk from Marylebone High Street. My job is to train students and diplomats from Britain and other countries.

  • Article: Mar 29, 2013

    URGENT THREAT TO CORK STREET ART GALLERIES

    For almost 90 years, Cork Street in Mayfair has been one of the most famous streets for art galleries in London, and possibly the world. Cork Street is known and loved not only in Britain but internationally, and provides a major draw to London and the UK throughout the course of a year. A large part of Cork Street is in danger of being turned into non-art retail spaces as a result of a planning application being pursued by a company called Native Land. The Save Cork Street Campaign, representing all of the galleries on Cork Street, was formed in August 2012 in response to these planned developments.

  • Nick Clegg (Photo by Dave Radcliffe for the Liberal Democrats)
    Article: Mar 10, 2013

    Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has closed the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference in Brighton by calling on members to spread the message of the Party's commitment in Government to deliver a stronger economy and a fairer society.

    In his keynote Leader's speech, Nick paid tribute to the work of the Party in winning the Eastleigh by-election, beating the Conservatives into third place and squeezing Labour while campaigning on the Lib Dem record of delivering in Government.

  • Petition: Feb 11, 2013
  • Article: Feb 11, 2013

    Bott's Mews Developers Withdraw!

    Great news! You should know that the developers 23 Architecture Ltd withdrew their proposed plan for Bott's Mews, the day before it was due to come before the Council's Planning Applications Committee at its meeting on 29 January, presumably because the Council's planning officers had recommended its rejection as the proposed buildings were "of insufficient design quality", and therefore incompatible with the character of this Conservation Area.

  • Article: Feb 8, 2013
    POLICE APPEAL TO ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ABOUT THE STABBING IN LUPUS STREET, PIMLICO, TO CONTACT THEIR INCIDENT ROOM OR CRIMESTOPPERS ON 0800 555 111
    Following the murder of 16 year old Hani Abou El Kheir who was brutally stabbed to death in Lupus Street, Pimlico, on Sunday 27th January, police have asked anyone who witnessed the stabbing or who may have any information about it, to contact their Incident Room on 0208 345 3715 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
    Nine people have so far been arrested in connection with the murder, but police are anxious to hear from a taxi driver who picked up three youths in Hudson Place, Victoria, at 6:59pm on 27th January.
    The murder has raised questions about the lack of police presence on the streets of London. Simon Jenkins, writing in the London Evening Standard on 5th February, referred to the Met's "paltry presence on inner London's most vulnerable streets and estates". He said: "I drove this week along Pimlico's near empty Lupus Street, while dozens of police could be found a mile away strolling up and down Whitehall and clustered round Westminster and Buckingham Palace".
    Westminster LibDems share Simon Jenkins' concern about the steadily reducing police presence on the streets of the borough, as we made clear in the earlier article that we published on this website on 1 November 2012: "CUTS TO POLICING IN BAYSWATER",