Summer Streets Fund
Summer Streets 2025
Brixton, Leyton, Shoreditch and the West End are the first beneficiaries of the Mayor’s Summer Streets Fund, introducing al fresco dining and later opening hours this summer and beyond.
Explore the four new Summer Streets zones with the handy overview graphic below and click below for more details, including opening hours and dates.
What's on
From August to September, Brixton’s first Brixton Summer Zone is available on Saturday evenings, offering open-access outdoor seating where people can relax with food, enhanced by live performances, workshops, and Brixton's market traders.
On Atlantic Road, more car-free days are being introduced on select weekends through to October 2025 as part of the Reimagining Atlantic Road series of events. These will extend into the evening to support local dining and entertainment to benefit businesses and residents alike:
- Saturday 09 August - Brixton X Harlem
- Saturday 13 September - Power
- Saturday 11 October - Breath
Visit Brixton BID for more details on Reimagining Atlantic Road.
Francis Road has extended its car free hours, making it a hub for street trading and a cultural meeting point with seating, outdoor games, late events and a weekend market.
On Saturdays from 10am-4pm, there is a new weekly market from street food operators KERB. Francis Road Lates will be held every Friday evening starting from 29 August and running until 26 September featuring reggae nights, a kids ceilidh, silent disco and outdoor cinema.
There will also be further outdoor dining on Leyton Midland Road later in the year. Full details to be announced soon.
For the first time ever, independent bars and restaurants on Rivington Street and Redchurch Street are offering outdoor dining and drinking until midnight, with both streets car free on Fridays and Saturdays throughout the summer.
After a widely popular al fresco programme during the pandemic, pubs, bars and restaurants on St Martin’s Lane in the heart of the West End will be able to provide open air dining and drinking once again. The iconic street will be car-free from 11am to 11pm (until 31 October) with 20 businesses having applied for licenses.
Summer Streets map
Illustrated map of London called Summer Streets with ten different al fresco dining hotspots highlighted
About the fund
The Government has announced a new strategic licensing role for the Mayor of London to boost hospitality, culture and nightlife by making licensing easier. Whilst that scheme is developed with local authorities, businesses and the police, the Mayor wants to support London’s night time economy this summer.
As part of this, a GLA fund of £300,000 – the Summer Streets Fund – was made available to local authorities earlier this year to kickstart al fresco dining and extend opening hours for pubs, restaurants and venues in summer 2025.
The aim is to support a small number of high impact projects. The fund, which is now closed, welcomed applications of £50,000 to £100,000 per local authority and was made possible thanks to the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.