What does the future hold for London's struggling high streets? »
Representatives from businesses big and small will tomorrow appear before the London Assembly to discuss the issues facing retailers on local high streets in the capital.
With shop closures on already troubled high streets on the rise due to the recession, the Assembly’s Planning and Housing Committee is investigating what progress has been made on implementing [...]
One third of UK high growth companies based in London and SE »
Just six per cent of UK businesses hold the key to job creation and wider prosperity, according to two reports released today by NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts).
Together, the reports represent the most ambitious mapping exercise of business growth in the UK, mapping the UK’s high-growth firms over almost a decade. [...]
London: best for business… again »
For the 20th year in a row London remains Europe’s best city for business. The capital was rated ahead of Paris and Frankfurt in Cushman & Wakefield’s annual European Cities Monitor report and follows another recent survey, which rated London ahead of its arch rivals New York, Hong Kong and Singapore and Zurich as a [...]
Revaluation of business rates "damaging to business" »
The government’s revaluation of business rates will prove hugely damaging to businesses in the capital as they try to recover from the impact of the recession, London Councils has warned.
In March this year, London Councils’ Chairman Councillor Merrick Cockell wrote to the Chancellor Alistair Darling, to warn him of the crippling effect that business rate [...]
London's "Financial Capital" status under threat »
London’s status as the global capital of expertise is under threat from plans to regulate financial services, the Mayor Boris Johnson will tell EU Commissioners in Brussels today.
The Mayor believes that proposals for an EU Directive to regulate the alternative investment market such as European hedge funds, could see the London sector move to more [...]
Photo Gallery
Mayor Launches New Fund to Increase Music Education in the Capital
London and New York join forces to tackle childhood obesity
Capital Growth launches £150,000 fund to help Londoners boost food growing
Christmas comes early to Maida Vale Tube station
Children’s services in London amongst best
