London Plan news

A number of main roads in London city centre were closed on 22 September to encourage Londoners to cycle, walk, use public transport and have ... More

Experts from the sport and physical activity sector have a major role to play in delivering the mayor’s London Plan, according to chief executive of ... More

The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has launched the draft of his first London Plan – described as "the capital’s strategic planning bible". The 524-page ... More

The architect behind the Rio 2016 Olympic Park masterplan has revealed how a focus on sustainable design and temporary venues has created a lasting legacy ... More

The Museum of London is looking into the possibility of opening a viewing gallery at the top of London’s upcoming 1 Undershaft. The towering skyscraper ... More

A design team led by Bystrup Architecture Design and Engineering has won a design competition for central London’s first car-free bridge for cyclists and pedestrians. ... More

Design firm Gensler has been awarded a London Planning Award for its London Underline concept – a network of cycle and pedestrian paths running beneath ... More

The Paramount London theme park development has taken a major step forward after the landowner agreed a deal to sell to London Resort Company Holdings ... More

Nearly 70 per cent of Britons feel attitudes towards disabled people have improved since the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The figure comes from the Department ... More

Thomas Heatherwick’s £175m (US$294m, €216m) pedestrian footbridge, spanning from Temple Station to Queen’s Walk on the Southbank in London, has been submitted for planning. After ... More

The Crown Estate has announced plans for a £400m redevelopment of three sites in central London, which will create nearly 28,000sq m (300,000sq ft) of ... More

Consultation on the proposed extension to London Underground's Northern Line has begun. The extension - southwestwards from Kennington on the line's Charing Cross branch and ... More

London mayor Boris Johnson has welcomed plans for £5.5bn redevelopment of Battersea Power Station but called for more work to be done on the scheme ... More

You may recall in early November that ISPAL invited Members through the e-zine to provide comments on the Open Space Strategies, based on updated best ... More

Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, is instigating new guidelines to transform play opportunities for children, young people and families in the capital. Draft Supplementary Planning ... More

Property firm Land Securities has had the plans for its proposed 525ft (160m) tall skyscraper at 20 Fenchurch Street in Central London approved by the ... More

VisitBritain’s Britain and London Visitor Centre (BLVC) held its third annual taxi driver’s breakfast marketing campaign last month in central London. BLVC staff handed out ... More

The London Planetarium, renamed the Stardome, is to launch its new attraction tomorrow (14 July). Owned by Madame Tussauds, the Stardome has collaborated with Aardman ... More