The Latest Breaking News from Lutfur Rahman

Pro-LTN campaigners hail 'brilliant' news that Bethnal Green row will be heard in Court of Appeal

‘Going to court is a last resort for us, after all our attempts to engage constructively with the council failed,’ campaigners say

Evening Standard · Apr 15, 2025

London's oldest and cheapest spa reopens in world famous East End boxing venue

Reopening the venue on Thursday, the borough’s executive mayor Lutfur Rahman called in the ‘People's Spa’

Evening Standard · Apr 4, 2025

Rogue landlords who crammed up to 23 people into two bed flat where man died in e-bike fire fined £90,000

Father-of-two Mizanur Rahman, 41, died from the effects of smoke inhalation after the fire in the flat in Shadwell, east London

Evening Standard · Mar 6, 2025

Tower Hamlets axing low traffic neighbourhoods is lawful, High Court rules

Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman had promised to ‘abolish the failed Liveable Streets scheme’ in his 2022 re-election manifesto

Evening Standard · Dec 17, 2024

London council in legal action against building owners over ‘dangerous’ cladding

Tower Hamlets said it is the first local authority in the country to bring a legal action of this kind.

The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2024

1,500 London pensioners given Winter Fuel Payment to replace Government cut

Tower Hamlets steps in to pay pensioners Winter Fuel Allowance after Government cut

Evening Standard · Dec 5, 2024

Tower Hamlets: London council orders removal of dangerous Grenfell-style cladding in 'UK first'

Tower Hamlets said order against freeholder of building in Stepney was first of its kind in the UK

Evening Standard · Dec 5, 2024

'Interference with democracy': High Court battle over LTN removal ramps up

Mayor Lutfur Rahman is said to given ‘unintelligible and inadequate’ reasons for removing three LTNs in Bethnal Green

Evening Standard · Nov 21, 2024

OPINION - Woke councils should stay out of canine business

The news that Tower Hamlets is plotting to bring in new rules to insist dogs be on leads at all times has led to a twilight bark of outraged protest across the capital.

Evening Standard · Nov 21, 2024

Legal challenge against mayor Lutfur Rahman's bid to axe Tower Hamlets LTNs begins at High Court

Campaigners argue that removing low traffic schemes from Bethnal Green is ‘putting lives in jeopardy’

Evening Standard · Nov 20, 2024