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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Noah Vickers

Legal action fund to block Sadiq Khan's Oxford Street pedestrianisation voted down

Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner visited Oxford Street to announce plans to pedestrianise it in September - (PA Wire)

Tory plans to set aside £250,000 for a legal challenge against Sir Sadiq Khan’s proposed pedestrianisation of Oxford Street were voted down at a council meeting on Wednesday.

Westminster City Council’s Conservative group had put forward an amendment to the Labour administration’s budget, saying that the money should be allocated towards a judicial review “to force the mayor’s hand” over what they called an “ill thought out vanity project”.

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