Little Britain Residents City News

As you may be aware, Ho Bee Land, the owners of 1 St Martin’s Le Grand, are bringing forward plans to improve the building to update it to current standards and improve on various unsympathetic alterations.

The emerging proposals provide a unique opportunity to:

• Celebrate a historic building within the City of London, rectifying issues resulting from sub-standard alterations in the 1980s.
• Revitalise the original Sir Henry Tanner façade.
• Enhance the ground-floor with repositioned entrances and public realm improvements.
• Improve the internal layout to maximise the office offer on site and significantly improve the building’s sustainability credentials.

We welcome your views
As part of our ongoing commitment to engage with the local community, we would like to invite you to attend our public exhibition sessions.
The sessions will take place at:
St Mary Le Bow Church, Cheapside, London EC2V 6AU
on:
Monday 16th September 2024 (3pm to 7pm)
&
Wednesday 18th September 2024 (3pm to 7pm)
If you are unable to attend either of the events detailed above, you will be able to view the full plans on our dedicated Community Hub website that will go live following the public exhibition:
1StMLeGrand.co.uk

Quarterly Update from the 104th Alderman for Aldersgate Christopher Makin. Click here for more details.

Two of us will be at the Barbican Library on the third Tuesday of every month (apart from August),

6-7.30pm - you don't need to register, just turn up and meet us.

Dates for your diary

17 September

15 October

19 November

17 December

We're looking forward to seeing you!

Christopher Makin, Alderman, Randall Anderson, Deputy, Helen Fentimen, Steve Goodman, Deborah Oliver, Anett Rideg and Naresh Sonpar

Contact any of us at

[FirstName].[SecondName]@cityoflondon.gov.uk

and follow us on X/Twitter @Aldersgate74850

The City of London Corporation is currently conducting a Regulation 19 consultation on the 'City Plan 2040'. The plan provides a framework for future development in the Square Mile, outlining priorities for its communities, businesses and places until 2040 and beyond.

This consultation will focus on assessing whether the plan is sound, legally compliant and prepared in accordance with the duty to co-operate. It will run from April 18 to May 31. 

City Plan 2040: Regulation 19 consultation programme

The City Corporation invites you to register for the City Plan Regulation 19 consultation events, which will be held throughout April and May 2024. On April 18th, the website will undergo an update to allow users to submit representations online. 

Message from Nickie Aiken

MP for the Cities of London and Westminster 

The countdown to the King’s Speech has begun and I am ramping up my efforts to ensure that we finally have the long promised Leasehold Reform Bill included.

Your views are so important in shaping my contributions to any upcoming changes to leasehold reform. So if you are a leaseholder or a landlord with views on leasehold reform, I would encourage you to respond to my leasehold survey so I can take your views straight to Government.

Milton House is now connected to Fibre Broadband after Openreach installed the network of cables up until the entrance of each apartment door late June (there should be a small hatch where your service provider will connect into your apartment). You can confirm on Openreach's fibre checker, input your postcode, choose your address from the drop-down. 

Openreach doesn’t provide phone, broadband or TV services directly to anyone so to get these services you’ll need to contact a service provider (Sky, Virgin, BT etc.).

The City of London Corporation is working on designs to transform the streets on the 1970’s St Paul's gyratory. The project area stretches from the Museum of London roundabout to St Paul's underground station and is characterised by wide, vehicle-dominated highways, including King Edward Street, St Martin's Le Grand and Newgate Street. The intention is to make these streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists and create a greener, more pleasant environment. Click here for more details. The Court of Common Council approved Option 1/1A, The design layout for this option can be found here.

The barbican and golden lane community is a designated neighbourhood forum working to prepare a neighbourhood plan for the area and participate in local planning matters on a statutory basis. 

The Forum was designated on 18th July 2023 by a unanimous vote of the City of London’s Planning and Transport Committee.

About neighbourhood planning

The 2011 Localism Act introduced a new set of tools for neighbourhoods to come together and shape the future of their local areas. Go to the Localism Act 2011 on GOV.UK to download a copy of the plain English guide to the Localism Act.

Contact Brenda Szlesinger, Liz Hirst, Peter Jenkinson and Shelagh Wright at Barbican and Golden Lane Neighbourhood

The City of London Corporation are consulting on plans to regenerate the London Wall West site, which comprises the current home of the Museum of London and Bastion House (140-150 London Wall). Click here for more details.

HSBC has exchanged to let its new London headquarters, relocating from the more than 1 million square foot it has occupied in Canary Wharf for more than two decades, to 556,000 square feet at the former British Telecom head office near St Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London.

The relocation is expected to take place in 2027, when the bank's lease on the 45-floor tower at 8 Canada Square expires. 

Responding to changes in hybrid working, and the lease expiry, HSBC announced in September of last year that it planned to undertake a review of the best future location in London for its global headquarters, including the option of staying in the current building. HSBC said its ambition is to have an "even more flexible and dynamic head office that meets the needs of colleagues and clients".

London Wall site is now closed to visitors.

Museum of London begins countdown to West Smithfield relocation.

Museum of London’s main site at London Wall has closed as a visitor attraction in December 2022 in preparation for its relocation to West Smithfield. The Museum of London in West Smithfield will host a festival curated by Londoners in 2025 ahead of opening under a new name: The London Museum. The opening of the new museum will see the historic General Market at West Smithfield brought back to life for all Londoners to enjoy within Culture Mile, the City’s cultural district.