Regent's Park

When a resident contacted your Councillors about a number of uneven and broken pavements, we arranged to meet with a Highways Officer and inspect the areas in question.  

Last week saw the highest single degree of senseless graffiti when one road (Park Road) within the ward was targeted with street signs, a telephone box, waste bins and a bus shelter all hit.

The St John’s Wood High Street is a much-loved asset in NW8 and wider community but like most High Streets continues to change and COVID accelerated the pace of change.  

Ralu Oteh-Osoka is standing for election to Westminster's Regent's Park ward. We met her outside St Edward's Catholic Primary School. 

I'm here outside St Edward's Catholic Primary School, one of our fantastic primary schools in Regent's Park ward.

No one likes to see graffiti on our streets as it is unsightly and attracts unnecessary attention. Recently your local Councillors noticed graffiti had been sprayed on a street sign on Dorset Square and an electric box in Baker Street,  both were removed within a few days of notification.

To mark National Civic Tree Planting Day as part of The Queen’s Green Canopy project an English Oak tree was planted in the St John’s Wood Church Gardens on 11th March. 

After the May’s local elections’, we will see the introduction of new ward boundaries and the newly formed Regent’s Park ward. The ward will still cover NW8 but will also include North Marylebone around Dorset Square and Marylebone Station.  

We all seem to receive more cardboard boxes than ever but how do you break them down? Well, your Conservative Council have introduced new letterbox cardboard and paper bins which are currently being trialled across the Borough. 

Your Regent’s Park ward councillors recently met with the landlord of the Duke of York Pub, Circus Road and Lord’s following concern by local people about street drinking at the close of play on major matches.  

The Adventure Play Hub is a traditional playground located on St John’s Wood Terrace established in 1957 offering outdoor supervised adventure play for children in Westminster during term time and school holidays.