About the Outer London Commission
The Mayor has established the Outer London Commission (OLC), a small, highly experienced and focused Commission, to advise how Outer London can play its full part in the city’s economic success.
It is chaired by William McKee CBE, who has a long career in the public and private sectors and is advised on architecture and design by Sir Terry Farrell. It includes representatives of business, the boroughs, the development industry and the voluntary sector.
The Outer London Commission will explore how different parts of Outer London can better realise their economic potential, especially its town centres, as well as opportunity and intensification areas and industrial locations. It will also assess the concept of 'growth hubs' (a new type of business location), whether these can be distinct from and complement other sorts of business location, and where they might best be located as a new component of London's economic geography.
It will look more broadly at other factors which affect economic performance over the next 20 years and its recommendations are expected to include:
- refinement to, and new suggestions for, relevant policies in the London Plan
- infrastructure, labour market, institutional and resource needs
- delivery mechanisms
- improvements to the quality of life and of the environment
It will make its initial report in summer 2009 in time to feed in to the review of the London Plan.