Westminster City Council will continue to allow hospitality businesses to setup alfresco dining areas on some streets within Pimlico, Belgravia and Mayfair following an “overwhelming positive” consultation with residents.
Al fresco dining will continue in parts of Covent Garden and St. John’s Wood, with Westminster City Council also exploring the possibility of introducing a longer term scheme in Soho.
Westminster City Council has informed businesses that traffic will be re-introduced to Soho’s streets at the end of September, bringing to an end the area's popular al fresco dining scheme.
Oxford Circus will be transformed into two, 'pedestrian-friendly piazzas' as part of plans unveiled by Westminster City Council and The Crown Estate today (16 June).
Westminster City Council’s popular al fresco scheme will return as restaurants, pubs and bars re-open for outdoor dining and will run until the end of September.
Westminster City Council has scrapped plans to charge restaurant and bar operators thousands of pounds to keep trading outside through the winter months.
Westminster City Council is extending the temporary measures it put in place to enable al fresco dining and hospitality across the borough until the end of October.
Westminster City Council needs to ensure al fresco dining can take place every night of the week, says the Westminster & City of London Liberal Democrats.
Westminster Council says it will be asking businesses operating an outdoor service to implement a ’no seat, no service‘ policy, and enforcing a clear ‘no licence, no trade’ message.
The Soho Summer Street Festival campaign has called for changes to be made to Westminster Council's plans to temporarily close roads and create al fresco dining spaces across the borough
Westminster Council has set out plans to temporarily close roads and create al fresco dining spaces across the borough once hospitality businesses are given the green light to reopen.
The US embassy in Mayfair is to be converted in to a Qatari-owned luxury hotel with five restaurants as part of a £1bn development of Grosvenor Square.
Heston Blumenthal’s two-Michelin-starred London restaurant Dinner has shut up shop for a week following an outbreak of norovirus affecting members of staff and guests.
The controversial plans by Westminster City Council (WCC) to introduce weekend and night-time parking charges in London’s West End have been halted after a High Court judge granted campaigners a judicial review.
They have been slammed by Caprice Holdings’ Richard Caring, strongly opposed by MPs and London Mayor Boris Johnson, and estimated to threaten over 5,000 local jobs. Now, over 15,000 West End workers and residents have united in signing petitions to halt...
Richard Caring, chairman of Caprice Holdings which manages several West End restaurants including The Ivy and Scott’s, has slammed Westminster City Council’s (WCC) decision to extend car parking charges in the area to midnight Monday to Saturday.
The British Hospitality Association voices its opposition to plans by Westminster City Council to extend car parking charges in the area to midnight Monday to Saturday.
