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2 LONDON’S PLACES
The London Plan July 2011 – RTF version
2.1 This chapter sets out policies to support delivery of the Mayor’s vision (see
paragraph 1.52) and six detailed objectives (see paragraph 1.53) – and
particularly those of ensuring London is:
• A city that meets the challenges of economic and population growth
in ways that ensure a sustainable, good and improving quality of life and
sufficient high quality homes and neighbourhoods for all Londoners and
helps tackle the huge issue of deprivation and inequality among
Londoners, including inequality in health outcomes.
• A city that becomes a world leader in improving the environment
locally and globally, taking the lead in tackling climate change, reducing
pollution, developing a low carbon economy and consuming fewer
resources and using them more effectively.
These will be realised across London, taking account of the challenges and
opportunities facing different places across the capital, the issues of
sustainable management of growth facing London and its neighbouring
regions in the greater south-east of England, and its links with the rest of the
United Kingdom, Europe and the world.
2.2 This chapter also sets out special policies for areas of London facing
particular needs or with distinctive parts to play in the capital’s development
over the period to 2031, particularly using the legacy of the 2012 Games to
regenerate the Lower Lee Valley. It recognises that London is a complex
urban area comprising a wide range of different places which inter-relate and
contribute to the vitality and success of a city that is more than just the sum
of its individual parts. It takes an approach to spatial policy that recognises
distinctive but complementary roles for central, inner and outer London but
which does not see the development of any of them prejudicing that of the
others, but rather supporting and promoting it. Within this concentric
framework, it promotes a polycentric approach recognising the importance of
a range of different centres (particularly town centres, but also specialist
centres with the capacity to help promote the development of outer London).
To this "top down" strategic approach, the Plan also brings recognition of
the "bottom up" importance of neighbourhoods and locality. The
geographical structure it sets out is also intended to relate land use and
development capacity to existing and proposed transport provision as
effectively as possible across London and the wider city region, enabling
maximum use to be made of public transport. Finally, this chapter recognises
that administrative boundaries do not necessarily reflect neighbourhoods or
economic or functional areas on the ground - some boroughs, for example,
have characteristics of central, inner and outer London within their
boundaries.
Spatial strategy
2.3 The policies in this chapter set the overall spatial context and policy which
underlies this Plan and the Mayor's other strategies and policies -
particularly his Economic Development and Transport strategies. These
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