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HyPER members are invited to a “town hall” meeting with our newly elected councillors for the Hyde Park Estate: Md Shamsed Chowdhury, Greg Ero and Elliot Keck on Thursday 18th June at St John’s Church Hall, Hyde Park Crescent. We will begin the meeting with each councillor giving an introduction and laying out their visionContinue reading “Meet our new councillors and Have Your Say”

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has launched the second phase of public consultation on their emerging proposals to redevelop St Mary’s Hospital. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a new, modern hospital for the needs of patients, local communities and staff, and also allows the wider regeneration of the site. Following the first phaseContinue reading “Next phased launched for St Mary’s consultation”

Shakespeare in the Squares returns to the Hyde Park Estate this year. The team will celebrate their tenth anniversary with a new production of Love’s Labour’s Lost, Shakespeare’s sparkling comedy of flirtation, foolishness and the irresistible pull of love. The production will be directed by Toby Gordon and as with previous years will be heldContinue reading “Shakespeare returns to Connaught Square”

The police Safer Neighbourhood Team for Hyde Park Ward is holding a Crime Prevention Day on Thursday 25th June from 11am to 3pm. The event will take place at 5 Merchant Square (Paddington Basin) and will include:

HyPER has been taking part in the consultation by St Mary’s Paddington about the transformation of the hospital over the next ten years. At the two-hour workshop about the design of the transformed hospital, we were represented by Chris Gunness. The session, about the patient experience and accessibility, focused on the various spaces inside theContinue reading “Community Consultation on the Transformation of St Mary’s Paddington”

This year’s local elections take place on Thursday 7th May. This looks set to be a busy ballot paper, unusually with a full 3 candidates standing for the Green Party and Reform, in addition to the normal representation from The Conservatives, Labour and The Liberal Democrats. On this page we outline the candidates for HydeContinue reading “Answers to Local Elections Questions 2026”

With local elections approaching on Thursday 7th May, we thought it would be good to sound out the candidates on where they stand on key issues that affect our neighbourhood. This looks set to be a busy ballot paper, unusually with a full 3 candidates standing for the Green Party and Reform, in addition toContinue reading “Questions from Hyde Park Estate residents for local councillor candidates”

St Mary’s Hospital is running a couple of public-facing workshops that will focus on the design of a new St Mary’s. These workshops will be more focused on the patient experience and access considerations around the new hospital and how it will feel for patients and visitors to navigate. They will not include the externalContinue reading “St Mary’s Hospital – Hospital design workshops”

The owners of the McDonald’s franchise on Edgware Road have submitted a renewed application to operate 24/7. A previous application was widely opposed previously and was rejected. Individual submissions can be made on the council’s website. The last date for representations to be received is 22nd April 2026.

As part of the High-Streets Paddington-Bayswater programme Westminster Council is developing a series of public art commissions for Praed Street, working with a public art agency. The first commission being taken forward is to select one artist to deliver two 2D mural artworks on Praed Street. An artist Open call for Submissions has been published.Continue reading “Praed Street Public Art Programme”