17 Facts About Nicky Gavron

Felicia Nicolette Gavron was a British politician who was deputy mayor of London under Ken Livingstone from 2000 to 2003 and 2004 to 2008.

Nicky Gavron was a member of the London Assembly from 2000 to 2021 and was the former Labour candidate for the 2004 London mayoral election.

Nicky Gavron was born in Worcester on 24 November 1941, the daughter of a German Jew who had fled from Nazi Germany in 1936.

Nicky Gavron then gained a job as a lecturer at the Camberwell School of Art in South London.

Nicky Gavron became involved in politics in the 1970s when she campaigned against the widening of the Archway Road in London.

Nicky Gavron was the leader of the London Planning Advisory Committee from 1994 until it was absorbed into the Greater London Authority.

Nicky Gavron was elected London Assembly member for Enfield and Haringey in the 2000 London Assembly election and was deputy mayor of London from May 2000 until June 2003, when the mayor, Ken Livingstone, appointed Jenny Jones of the Green Party to succeed her.

Nicky Gavron was supposed to take up a position as acting mayor during Livingstone's suspension for four weeks from 1 March 2006, but a High Court order froze the suspension, allowing him to remain in office.

Nicky Gavron stood for the Barnet and Camden London Assembly seat in the 2008 GLA elections against the Conservative incumbent, Brian Coleman.

Nicky Gavron ceased to be deputy mayor on 4 May 2008 following Boris Johnson's victory in the 2008 London mayoral election.

Nicky Gavron was the chair of the London Assembly's housing and planning committee and a deputy chair of the planning committee.

Nicky Gavron was the London Assembly Labour Group's lead spokesperson on planning matters.

Nicky Gavron was a onetime member of the Safer London Committee and the Metropolitan Police Authority.

In January 2019, Nicky Gavron announced her intention to stand down at the 2020 London Assembly election.

Nicky Gavron envisioned low carbon zones being rolled out across the country in the same way that smokeless zones had been in the 1950s.

Nicky Gavron criticised patio heaters, calling them "an indulgence too far".

Nicky Gavron died at her home on 30 August 2024, at the age of 82.