The Latest Breaking News from City of London Corporation

Upscale 128-room hotel to replace office blocks between Museum of London and Barbican

The Square Mile site will also include shops and a pocket park

Evening Standard · Jun 13, 2024

'Safe haven' opens in 600-year-old Guildhall to tackle violence against women and girls

Staff at the 15th century building have been trained to support City workers, revellers and visitors feeling unsafe

Evening Standard · Feb 28, 2024

Explanatory plaques fixed to London statues linked to slavery

City of London Corporation will fix plaques to statues of William Beckford and Sir John Cass

Evening Standard · Sep 15, 2023

Major transport link at Bank Junction to close permanently with buses re-routed

Part of Queen Victoria Street is closing to motorists on Monday

Evening Standard · Feb 12, 2023

Lights in City of London’s skyscrapers could be switched off to save energy

Future developers will need a detailed light strategy under draft plans

Evening Standard · Feb 11, 2023

City of London proposing to make skyscrapers dim their lights at night

Plans for Square Mile would create ‘brightness zones’ governed by curfews amid the darkened buildings

The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2023

City of London to revamp traffic system in latest phase of Bank Junction work

The All Change At Bank project is part of an upgrade of Bank station on one of the capital’s busiest junctions

Evening Standard · Feb 2, 2023

Tower Bridge and Smithfield among London landmarks to be powered by solar panels in Dorset farmland

More than 91,000 solar panels erected in £40m deal between the City of London Corporation and French energy firm Voltalia

Evening Standard · Dec 16, 2022

London’s historically upper and middle-class finance industry told it has to source half its leaders from lower socio-economic backgrounds by 2030

Some companies within the sector define employees as working class if they have a parent who held a “routine or manual” job such as a bus driver or a cleaner.

Fortune · Nov 30, 2022

Smithfield and Billingsgate markets are leaving central London for Dagenham

The City of London Corporation has approved plans to move the historic meat and fish markets far out east

Evening Standard · Nov 22, 2022