West London has high-growth businesses, great transport links and brownfield sites ripe for development. No wonder it’s top of the Mayor’s list for investment, says Peter Mason

We are at a tipping point for London’s economy. We need more homes, but equally, we also need the jobs and economic growth that will allow people to afford those homes and thrive, rather than simply surviving. To achieve this, we must move the needle on London’s established pattern of economic growth, and encourage development and investment outside of zone 1 and in areas that have the most growth potential. And instead of further pooling economic growth into a limited number of markets in limited places in our city, London must play its part in service to the rest of the nation.

West London works

It was therefore pleasing, but not surprising, to see West London near the top of the Mayor’s ‘London Growth Plan’ agenda, published on Thursday, which identified it as an area primed for major growth and investment through areas like Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation........

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