{"id":446916,"date":"2026-02-26T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446916\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:59:08","slug":"oxford-street-pedestrianisation-plan-gets-final-official-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446916\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Street pedestrianisation plan gets final official approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council, which has previously opposed plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street, said its role was now to ensure the transformation worked for local communities as well as for London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its leader, Adam Hug, said: &#8220;Westminster Council&#8217;s view on Oxford Street pedestrianisation is a matter of longstanding public record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Over the last 18 months we have secured a number of key improvements from the mayor of London&#8217;s original plans to ensure that the proposals for Oxford Street are more deliverable and better meet the needs of local residents, businesses, and wider London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These include ensuring that Oxford Street East transformation will be delivered in line with Westminster&#8217;s previous plans that retain bus access, and the council&#8217;s retention of strategic development funding.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The council, which has previously opposed plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street, said its role was now to ensure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-446916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}