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The council's full legal name is "The Lord Mayor and Citizens of the City of Westminster", but it is generally known as Westminster City Council. [ 12 ] From 1965 until 1986 the council was a lower-tier authority, with upper-tier functions provided by the Greater London Council .
Westminster City Council [1985]). In practice, government planning policy is often the most important material consideration other than the development plan. Government policy may also override the development plan if it has been both consulted on and published more recently.
The Hallfield Estate, owned by Westminster City Council, is one of several modernist housing projects in Bayswater, London designed in the immediate postwar period by the Tecton architecture practice, led by Berthold Lubetkin. Following the dissolution of Tecton, the project was realised by Denys Lasdun and Lindsay Drake in the 1950s ...
Soon after the article was published, Westminster City Council rejected a Qatari planning application to combine two mansions on Cornwall Terrace in Regent's Park to create a 17-bedroom palace. The Guardian alleged that the previous publicity had caused concern among the ruling family of Qatar, quoting a source as saying that Qatar was seen as ...
In May 1996 Westminster City Council's action in the so-called homes for votes scandal were ruled illegal and subsequent approval of the conversion by Westminster Council's Planning Applications subcommittee required a financial contribution of £259,000 toward the council's budget for affordable housing (minutes 20/12/96 & 5/8/97).
Sir Simon Henry Milton (2 October 1961 – 11 April 2011) was a British Conservative politician. [1] He lately served as London's Deputy Mayor for Policy and Planning, and before that was a leader of Westminster City Council and Chairman of the Local Government Association.
Westbourne forms or resembles an electoral ward of the local authority which is, since 1965, Westminster City Council, and an ecclesiastical parish in the Church of England. Westbourne Conservation Area is a smaller area, designated by the local authority, in Planning Law.
On 13 August 2021, the deputy leader of Westminster City Council and project lead Melvyn Caplan resigned in the wake of the cost increase. Council leader Rachel Robathan described the almost doubling in cost as "totally unacceptable" and a review was launched to "understand what went wrong and ensure it never happens again". [12] [13]