London Community Governance

An event in London on neighbourhood planning. [ View the story "Getting neighbourhood planning off the ground!" on Storify ]

The government is proposing to make a small but significant change to the planning system. Community valued pubs that are registered as...

Article originally appeared in Sustain. One Sunday in July I stood in a small park in a Central London and asked people to pin cards to a...

I'm asking people what they love about the Soho neighbourhood, both online and at events. The responses are interesting and can be found...

Elections taking place in the Queen's Park ward of Westminster today are truly historic. As well as the London region MEPs and councillo...

The latest area in London to look at setting up a parish council is Barking Reach . This area, also known as Barking Riverside, was in the n...

On Wednesday 26 March 2013 the National Association of Local Councils (NALC) held an event asking the question " What next for localis...

I've started a group  London Community Governance on LinkedIn  for sharing links and discussion related to community governance in Londo...

The National Association of Local Councils (NALC) has published a book which aims to be a comprehensive guide to the workings of parish cou...

The Department for Communities and Local Government ran a consultation on the process of setting up new town and parish councils that closed...

The community in Nunhead, Southwark have organised and successfully used the ' community right to bid ' part of the Localism Act 20...

The Department for Communities and Local Government recently closed a consultation on making it easier to set up new town and parish counci...

There is now a Googe+ Community  for issues around community governance. This is a place to share links, discuss and exchange ideas.

The Department for Communities and Local Government is consulting on changes to the way parish and town councils are set up in England. ...

I've started a YouTube channel to share videos that I find related to community governance in London. You can subscribe here .

Had a bit of time to check for evidence of communities thinking about forming parish councils. Queen's Park have been successful and wi...

In July I spoke at a Planning Aid for London event on neighbourhood planning in London, the creation of urban parishes and alternative form...

I've been looking forward to the opportunity to write a little about Queen's Park and their bid to form a parish council in London. ...

Following a referendum organised by Westminster City Council, it looks very likely that the first parish council in Greater London since 193...

BBC article today suggested that a new parish council for Queen's Park would be the first in 50 years. It is actually more like 75 year...

Time has come to update the list of potential community (parish) councils in London. Here are the proposed councils that have been sugge...

A milestone has been achieved and my research plans have received ethical approval. This means I can start approaching organisations and ind...

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An odd tale has been reported about the church leaders setting up a parish council in Mayfair . This is impossible as a parish council is a ...

Southwark is looking to reduce the number of community councils  in the borough. This will be achieved by merging Borough & Bankside wit...

This map records areas that are investigating the opportunity to form a local/parish council in London and links to relevant news stories. T...

This is an article I wrote for City Mayors . Since 2007, neighbourhoods in London have the right to form councils responsible for their ow...

Today I was present at the public meeting to discuss the creation of a community council for the area around London Fields in Hackney. The ...

During the summer of 2010 a proposal came about for a town council in Wapping . The proposal seems to have gone cold , with the public meeti...

Today I was lucky enough to attend the launch event for the proposed Queen's Park Community Council . The campaign to create a statuto...

This map records areas that are investigating the opportunity to form a local/parish council in London and links to relevant news stories. T...

This is the second in a series looking at various aspects of the Localism Bill. Just as the Localism Bill removes the regional tier of t...

The first collection of maps is now available to view . It is a simple one, the 28 boroughs that formed Inner London before 1965 that are no...

This is the first in a series looking at various aspects of the Localism Bill. The Localism Bill introduced in this parliament aims to re...

Ahead of the Localism Bill introduced in December, confirmation came that the coalition government supports the creation of local councils w...