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Your last chance to attend one of Phlox Books fascinating events is this Tuesday 29th, with more opportunities to meet and hear from renowned authors as well as purchase signed books before general release. This final event will be an intimate ‘in conversation’ event featuring award-winning journalists Sally Hayden and Christina Lamb. Discussing Hayden’s unreleasedContinue reading “Final drinks and books event at Phlox Books”

Recent addition to Connaught Village, Phlox Books, will be having the next event at their pop-up shop this Thursday 24th. The event will commence with a drinks reception and continue with talks from 2 authors: Alice Vincent – Alice Vincent is an author and gardener, who has worked as a journalist for the past decade.Continue reading “Drinks and books at Phlox’s next event”

Westminster Council is proposing to convert a number of residents’ parking bays on the Hyde Park Estate into electric vehicle residential charging bays. This will mean that the bays can only be used by electric vehicles, and only whilst charging: a vehicle must be plugged into the recharging point while occupying an electric vehicle residents’Continue reading “Conversion of parking to EV charging bays”

As the May local elections loom, HyPER’s engagement with all influential stakeholders in our community is intensifying. In the spirit of true impartiality and objectivity – not wishing to alienate any of our members or indeed-non members – we have extended social invitations to representatives of the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democratic Parties in recentContinue reading “HyPER at the top table”

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Connaught Village welcomes indie book store, Phlox Books to pop-up over the month of March with a women focused catalogue of books and female author events that will showcase the female experience in literary form. The first event, including wines from Connaught Cellars, is on Tuesday 8th March.

Join us for our next pop-up party this Saturday 5th March, for the ultimate chocolate experience, where you won’t just taste, you will learn about some of the world’s finest chocolate. We are extremely grateful to London Chocolate for hosting the event and we’re delighted to give HyPER members the opportunity to explore this newContinue reading “Next pop-up party and interview with London Chocolate”

Leader of the Council Rachael Robathan confirms that Westminster Council will re-engage with residents of the Hyde Park Estate to find a solution to the excessive volumes of traffic that cuts through the Estate.

We recently informed members of the opportunity to have a say on the temporary cycle lanes on Bayswater Road, Westbourne Terrace and around the Estate. The Council has now published the responses to this consultation and as a result intends to retain the temporary lanes whilst permanent schemes are developed. More information is available onContinue reading “Results of temporary cycle lane consultation”

We are pleased to report that after a lengthy period of pressure from HyPER the council has now replaced the EV charging point on Connaught Street. Having been defective for some time and being one of the few chargers around Connaught Village, we know this was causing a lot of frustration amongst members. The reasonContinue reading “Connaught Street EV charger replaced”

Temporary 20mph speed limits near the Hyde Park Estate to be made permanent and new limits to be introduced.