On a bright, summer’s day at City Hall in 2024, the mayor of London’s senior advisers were in a room mulling over how to solve the most contentious of issues – getting vehicles off Oxford Street.
In the planning meeting, they were advocating a new approach.
The thorny issue of the pedestrianisation of London’s most famous shopping street had foxed mayoral administrations for years.
Every time a new plan emerged, it was scrapped by Westminster Council, who owned the street and could be swayed by the marginal seats on either side of the debate.
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Now the mayor’s senior advisers were giving him another way
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