City of London Archive
Read my notice against the usage of generative AI. This archive is made by and for humans.
Welcome! This is an unofficial archive of documents from the City of London website, LTC, and LPS. Currently only meetings, planning records, and ArcGIS files are saved. New documents are automatically added to the archive every Tuesday at 1:45AM.
| Table of contents |
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| - Meetings |
| - Planning Applications |
| - Maps and Open Data |
| - LTC Meetings |
| - LPS Meetings |
| - Historical Meetings |
| - Contributing |
| - Why have an archive? |
| - The legal things |
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Meetings
This part of the archive includes meetings from London's council, various committees, and working groups. The archive has a complete history from as far back as 2011, and partial history to 2000, with the exception of video recordings due to size and cost. However, links are still provided.
Planning Applications
This part of the archive includes proposals for zoning, environmental and safety studies, concepts, and other planning documents. This archive's backups started on 2025/05/25. Older applications have been retrieved from the Wayback Machine, but anything prior to the creation of this archive may not be reliable or consistent. Please see "Contributing" if you have older documents to add.
Maps and Open Data (ArcGIS)
This is a dump of London's ArcGIS maps in GeoJSON and KMZ formats, as well as their Open Data platform. The Open Data maps are already contained within ArcGIS, so this only unique non-map data has been saved to the Open Data section.
In compliance with London's Terms of Use, you may access a copy of the Open Data TOU here. Copies have also been included in the root of both archive sections.
LTC Meetings
This part of the archive includes documents from London Transit Commission meetings. All meetings after 2018 are fully archived, and there are partial archives going back to 2005.
LPS Meetings
This part of the archive includes documents from London Police Services meetings. Everything that was available (2014-present) has been downloaded, but due to bugs in the LPS website, I cannot guarantee that all meetings are complete.
Historical Meetings
A work in progress archive of City of London meetings from the 1800s and 1900s. These are digitations of microform obtained from Western's Archives and Special Collections.
It will take me a long time to scan, crop, and sort these meetings, so only a few years are uploaded right now. If you are looking for year that has not been uploaded, reach out and I'll send you an unsorted copy. Once the main sorting is done, I will try to look into OCR for accessibility.
Contributing
If you have missing documents, would like to make corrections, or found other city documents in need of archiving, please shoot me an email. I am also happy to answer any questions or assist in locating documents. Finally, if you are able to, please consider tipping the archive. Currently the archive is very small and cheap to host, but as time passes more files will be uploaded and accessed, greatly increasing the cost.
Why have an archive?
Sometimes the internet feels permanent, but it's a common occurance for websites to delete old files due to costs or "cleanups". The London website is guilty of this with pages like planning applications being removed when no longer relevant. You can request files from the city directly, though this process may be slow or difficult if you need large numbers of files, or do not know exactly what you're looking for. Fees are also charged for the time taken to fulfil file requests.
Other parts of the website like the meetings are not at immediate risk of being deleted, but they are designed in such a way where the Wayback Machine is unable to crawl them. Attachments like reports, voting, and letters have obscured links, meaning no backups can be made without custom tools. I wrote more about this on my blog.
This archive exists to ensure a long lifespan for all files. Nobody can say what London will do with their data, but I can at least make sure my archive stays up for many years to come.
The legal things
This archive is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by the City of London. All files are owned by the City of London or their respective copyright holders. For DMCA takedowns please contact me- Lillian Skinner- by email with links to the offending material, contact info, and proof that you are the copyright holder or authorized to act on behalf of the copyright holder.
If you are a copyright holder then I kindly request that you allow this site to remain for the sake of data preservation and public access.
