On London is run by Dave Hill, formerly the Guardian's award-winning London commentator, and written by him and an array of fellow Londoncentrics.It aims to improve the quality of coverage of London politics, development and culture.

5 days ago · This website was launched by me in a more rudimentary form on 1 February 2017 as a place where I could continue to write about the politics, places and people of London in the way I wanted to, having previously been the Guardian’s self-publishing London commentator since 2008. Today, eight years on, OnLondon.co.uk is an established, multi-contributor journalism website providing coverage of ...

Dec 31, 2024 · London as a place, a society and the big engine of the national economy entered 2024 still recovering from the pandemic and changed by it in ways that weren’t yet clear. Its people’s fortunes were mixed and its governance bodies were hoping for a better deal from a new national government later in the year. […]

3 days ago · Someone, somewhere in the bowels of Whitehall might already have drawn a red line round a lump of farmland in some other part of England. But if the government wants to move fast on getting its promised New Towns programme going, it could do …

This website was launched on 1 February 2017 by me, award-winning former Guardian London commentator Dave Hill. I run and edit the site. Its goal is to provide the best possible news, analysis and commentary about the UK capital’s politics, development and culture. OnLondon carries articles by a wide range of contributors who disagree about […]

Jan 27, 2025 · In an unexpected City Hall statement at last week’s opening of the public inquiry stage of Enfield’s Local Plan, Sir Sadiq Khan formally accepted for the first time that releasing protected Green Belt land to help meet housing need in the capital has become “unavoidable”.. The Enfield plan, the council’s development roadmap up to 2041, proposes controversially allowing some 9,000 new ...

Jan 15, 2025 · On London is run by Dave Hill, formerly the Guardian's award-winning London commentator, and written by him and an array of fellow Londoncentrics.It aims to improve the quality of coverage of London politics, development and culture.

Jan 26, 2025 · Last year, 2024, was a big deal for elections in London – the Mayor and Assembly in May and the General Election in July. But there was also a steady stream of by-elections for seats on London borough councils, which gave us a continuous although not always easy to interpret commentary on London’s electoral temperature.

Apr 18, 2024 · Each time there’s a democratic contest to fill the hot seats at City Hall, top elections analyst Lewis Baston and I join forces to assemble the best guide we possibly can to the capital’s electoral landscape and how the competing candidates and parties are likely to fare on it.. This year is no exception and I am pretty thrilled …

Jan 16, 2025 · The government’s overall housing target for London was, let us recall, set last September at a heroic 81,000 new dwellings a year for the next five years, a figure described by Angela Rayner in her letter to Sadiq Khan as “ambitious but deliverable” and by others as very little less absurd than the 100,000 it was reduced from.. As Rayner herself observed to the Mayor, the London average ...