Healthy places

To improve Londoners' health we must tackle pollution and waste, including moving to refillable tap water provision wherever possible. I urge the Mayor to show leadership and put water refill points across London's transport network.
If tap water was provided across London, for free, it would help to make London's streets conducive to exercise, and save people money when out and about. At the moment cheap-suagry drinks are often the easiest option and are impacting on Londoners health and public cost.
Make water a right for all people and install refill stations across London. Fresh, visible and accessible water is a smart, simple solution to help healthier lives across London.

I enjoy exploring our wonderful city by foot and by bike. It would be much easier if there were more water refill points around the city. It makes sense to have many of these in a safe controlled space like our tube and train stations. This would help tackle pollution and plastic waste. For many people it would also encourage them to drink water rather than sugary, caffeinated drinks. Hugely improving the health of London's citizens and visitors.

I urge the Major to show leadership and put water refill points across London's transport network.

I like to run in the beautiful green spaces and parks that London has to offer. However it is annoying when I'm out and about to find places to fill up my water bottle - there needs to be public water fountains and water refill points to help runners, walkers and people out and about in London to stay hydrated without having to buy disposable plastic, which sadly seems to be on the rapid rise and blighting our streets.

Remove the need for disposable plastic and provide free water for those that live, work & play in London based around public infrastructure such as tube & train stations as well as parks - then we would all know where we could easily go to go to get a free drink, without having to buy plastic or go into a shop/cafe.

Water is a public good and should be available in public places.

As one of the 5000+ boaters in London, I have the benefit of living on the beautiful canals but the environment is blighted by litter and pollution and plastic is a huge part of this. Boaters don't have a piped supply of water, we need to fill up a tank at a few water points across the city but we run out, and sometimes taps are out of order. It would greatly reduce the need to buy bottled water if tap water was freely available. It's amazing how much you take something for granted until you have it - there must be thousands of Londoners other than boaters that don't just have a tap that they can turn on at home and get unlimited drinking water. I support WATER FOR LONDON

What makes a healthy community are places where people can gather for free and participate in cultural activities such as music, dance, art, storytelling of all sorts. Spaces for voices to feel heard and information to be shared.
Facilities I'd like to see are music and dance venues (or licenses to use buildings for these), markets.
Libraries or learning spaces where communities can share knowledge. Somewhere where people can work quietly is also something that seems to be disappearing. Also community workshops and hackspaces where communities can fix things and invent things - local businesses could donate materials they no longer need.

I live in Southall and enjoy being part of an ethnically and culturally diverse community, which is exciting and vibrant, a place which will influence my children to be world class citizens. What I don't like, is that the health inequalities in the community and poverty are being compounded by FM Conway, an asphalt plant situated in Hayes, who are in breach of their operating permit, by not ensuring that their emissions to air, are free from odour. It is more than just a bad smell that the residents of Southall and Hayes experience. Many are reporting headaches, nausea, vomiting and asthma. The Mayor of London, like John McDonnell MP for Hayes, needs to place pressure on the London Borough of Hillingdon, to treat the emissions as a statutory public nuisance and issue an abatement notice as allowed under the Environmental Protection Act.

The Lancet commission on pollution and health has provided significant evidence of the link between air pollution and heart, kidney and lung diseases, type 2 diabetes and dementia.
Southall residents of South Asian and African Caribbean origin, are at greater risk of diabetes. There is also a high incidence of asthma amongst the young, as borne out by health statistics

You can read about the impact on the health of the community on www.iratecampaign.wordpress.com
The petition to force Hillingdon Council to take regulatory action can be found on Change.org
https://www.change.org/p/hillingdon-and-ealing-councils-hillingdon-and-…

The voice of a marginalized community needs to be heard by those in authority. Our right not to be polluted and suffer ill health caused by a commercial company needs to be upheld by enforcement of the relevant act of parliament.

We request that Dr Onkar Sahota AM for Ealing & Hillingdon and chair of the health committee takes action.

Car free network for walkers and cyclists is needed. http://sensiblepolitics.beep.com/carfreenetwork.htm

Healthy streets for people to live and bring up their children are desperately needed.There is so little consideration for this both within the Councils and the Government.Our street is overrun with rat running-making it very noisy,polluted and a stressful place to live.It used to be quiet-but we fear that the advent of apps such as WAYZ and Google Maps are pushing traffic up our streets.At the moment traffic is prioritised over people-we think this is wrong and more emphasis is needed to build more quiet ways for children to walk to school,people to walk to the shops,cyclists etc.If walking is quicker and more pleasant than driving-then fewer people will be inclined to get into their cars to make short journeys.My children love living in London but I fear for their health and safety.

Pollution is a big problem. All the buses and black cabs in London - a lot of Uber cars are hybrids. Cleaner than the black cabs so why is TFL listening to the grievances of the greedy black cab drivers rather than doing something about our clean air.
It’s costing lives and (local) government is doing nothing. Talking about 2040 to change high polluting vehicles - what planet are they on?
Stop listening to oil companies and London black cab drivers. Change your policies NOW. We deserve it.

A healthy community consists of healthy individuals. One thing that improves health is regular exercise.

I used to cycle daily until I was hit by a careless driver once too often, which did rather put me off. I'm no longer willing to cycle in motor traffic, and many pavements are unsuitable for cycling, so I get less exercise now. I usually either drive or take the bus, in either case adding to the air pollution that others commenting here are worried about.

Different people have different priorities. The thing that would improve my health is a network of properly designed cycle tracks. Barnet does almost nothing to facilitate cycling.

Pollution and anti social behavior for me...police are clearly over stretched and only deal with 'priority knee jerk stuff and reacting Not preventing. The amount of creeps I've endured over the years on public transport and then theres the local ' flasher'..lone women have to be on their guard. I live in the posh end of Hounslow and feel as though the area is always forgotton. Heathrow is a constant obviously. The vaguely affordable rental flats are situated on or very near the most polluted and anti social areas. Its like anywhere if your rich or sharing a 2 bed flat with 8 other people you can live on a nice street with trees, if your an average earner (heaven forbid you have dependants) & not in council you get to live on the side of the westway or M/A road in a house split into 10 bedsits. All the green spaces are at risk in my area. My local community who have paid for their own legal are always fighting the council but to no end so far. Fly tipping a huge problem and no recycling to anyone who lives in flats....so go figure....

Lack of community in a lot of areas due to transient rental living which perpetuates anti social no one cares attitudes, and unpleasent folks taking over our green spots and open spaces after working hours to deal/drink and other creepy pursuits i won't mention on here...

I feel that pollution from car traffic and rat-running traffic is the number one priority - for our health and wellbeing, air quality and noise. Neighbourhoods which reduce the dominance of cars (by putting in infrastructure which eliminates rat running and makes car journeys less desirable, and by installing 20 MPH limits) seem to be the healthiest and friendliest in London.