Drawing on over thirty years of experience we provide advice and support to local government, City Hall and national government partners. At the heart of our policy programme is a focus on economic, social and environmental sustainability in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
West London Business (WLB) has championed the need for increased investment to address West London energy network constraints since 2021, when we first became aware of the extent of the issue. WLB members raised serious concerns of investment slowing down because of these constraints, impacting the development of new housing and industrial investment in the area. In recent years, the significant prominence of data centres to the public foray and the 2025 North Hyde Substation Outage
We have just published our statement on the final NESO Report on the North Hyde Substation Outage, and WLB has once again been on various media outlets as an early advocate for improving energy capacity and resilience in West London
Read our latest update on policy responses and consultations >>
Technical Summary for policymakers >>
Here are earlier media links from March 2025, when the fire had just taken place:
For Member’s only, four Policy Working Groups guide and monitor our advocacy and action on:
Currently focusing on London Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP), supporting local education & training providers’ alignment with local employers’ needs. They provide an opportunity for members to update each other on areas of key interest.
The Environment & Climate Change Working Group includes leaders from across WLB’s membership who help shape our activities, connections and partnerships across the West London geography and beyond to support our Net Zero and carbon reduction goals. Since 2021, having been awarded UN observer status at the COP global meetings, WLB hosts a group of 10 or so leaders in the Blue Zone of the COP meetings.
WLB’s Built Environment Working Group gathers representatives from WLB’s membership to shape the agenda of this working group and its engagement with public sector partners. From property management and development to architects and suppliers the list of organisations is many and varied. The Group provides strategic counsel for Net Zero Neighbourhoods, the West London Property lunch series as well as our involvement in conferences including MIPIM, UKREiiF and emergent issues relating to the sector eg. the current West London energy constraints. Chaired by Max Farrell of The London Collective.
Chaired by Kerry Bangle of WSP, the group looks at the large infrastructure and transport issues in our sub-region including topics such as the West London Orbital, hydrogen refuelling, energy constraints, cycling infrastructure, HS2, and the digital network. It shares information gathered and activities to support the economic growth and stability of West London.
West London Business also engage in more ad hoc advocacy in these additional thematic areas:
West London Business provides the secretariat to the Cross Party Group for West London. The group of parliamentarians is chaired by Lord Young of Norwood Green and meets a few times each year, and in response to any critical events (e.g. COVID19) impacting the sub-region.
West London Business is recognised as an observer organisation to COP. A West London delegation of business leaders participated in COP26 (Glasgow) and COP28 (Dubai). Virtual participation was organised for COP27 (Sharm-el-Sheikh), COP29 (Baku) and COP30 (Belem). If you are interested in forming a part of the next COP delegation, please contact Amelia Grant.
West London Business also supports the Anthropy Summit which takes place annually at the Eden Project, Cornwall.
