Culture and economy

It's the SAME problem....year after year - THE PROFANE SHAMELESS ADVERTS THROUGHOUT LONDON UNDERGROUND, STREETS and SHOPS !

What else do you want to hear from us Mr. Khan?

There's NO other Truth, that erodes the Nation's Morality that much!

Please could you establish an awards scheme for volunteers across London. There was one in Hillingdon Borough but it was stopped some time ago and I think that volunteers should be rewarded for the work they do. People do not get as much recognition as I think they deserve for volunteering. I feel that various categories could be set up for managers to nominate their volunteers to receive awards and they could be presented at a special meeting once a year.

Group Scout Leader, 2nd Uxbridge Scout Group

My top priority is to improve the environment for pedestrians, in all public spaces, especially streets. 

First and foremost to make it safer, easier and more pleasant to make journeys on foot. Secondly, to encourage poeple to walk for health and pleasure, in streets, public parks and other spaces. This will reduce traffic pollution, road congestion, crowding on public transport, as well as improve Londoners' health, fitness and wellbeing. 

Pavements need to be widened; we need more pedestrian-only areas; more pedestrian crossings (including across busy cycle lanes); longer pedestrian crossing times; more street seating; better quality pavements; less pavement clutter; more priority to pedestrian safety in spaces shared with cyclists and motor traffic. This would achieve the goals of your first proposal: Maximising Londoners’ opportunities to access sport and physical activity, as well as complementing the last proposal: Investment in transport. Walking is accessible and useful for a wider range of people than sport, especially people who are older, less mobile or time-poor.

Please add to your proposals 'investment in street walking' and/or some kind of initiative to promote improvements by Councils that would benefit pedestrians and promote walking in public spaces.  

Do these build on schemes/activities that have been proven to work? i.e. what’s the evidence base.

Will those currently developing skills or given future opportunity to learn creative skills be able to use them in employment?  Which cultures/communities will have their events funded?  

Good RELIABLE transport is key: enables us to get to/from work & leisure/cultural events which in turn boost the economy & culture (and our well-being).

Appreciate these are outlines so obviously not a great deal of detail but please ensure that all communities in all the London boroughs are covered not just the Inner Boroughs.  

Should consider increasing the frequency of buses and train routes plying from the Heathrow Airport. The Tourists who visit London, United Kingdom are essential for our growing British economy. They must be treated like a King and Queen while arriving at the UK without any partiality. Creating highly accessible transport from the Airport to the City should be a high priority. 

Would like to see prioritisation/focus given to gym equipment in parks etc. a great idea but why stop there. Could be extended to supermarket carparks; church/temple etc. yards/carparks/grounds; community centre yards any larger businesses with outside areas; school, university and college grounds especially where they have larger playing fields, common areas. Why not approach them and ask: Can you put some gym equipment in your yard please? Maybe offer a subsidy and they have to fund the rest. Re: Housing schemes/development scheme, why doesn't every new housing development not be required to put in an outdoor gym area

I am VERY disappointed at the lack of any reference to LOCAL access to vocational education and training. London appears to have more Universities offering academic degrees than it has Colleges offering practical skills. Given the lack of locations and the global shift away from remote off-site "classroom theory" and towards local/on-site "blended learning" we need to look at every school and library becoming a local "learning hub" to support those doing apprenticeships and other training programmes with SMEs who have no in-house facilities for supervised/facilitated learning. Only then can we begin to harness the talent of our NEETs, whose only carrer option is, all too often, as foot soldiers or bag carriers for County Lines and other Drugs related gangs. As far as culture jobs as concerned - how many colleges are offering support for the Screen Skills apprenticeships which almost guarantee a well paid job in film, theatre or media.     

Ability to walk east along the Thames is blighted by private buildings and landlord blocking access. This needs serious attention.

We need to deal with road traffic the biggest barrier to walking and cycling for all

Culture and Community comes very low on my list of priorities when we are living in such a crime ridden city with high pollution levels, bad transport infrastructure, lack of affordable housing, overcrowded roads, 5 hour wait in  A and E and not enough nurses or doctors to treat current Londoners, Culture does not increase reasonable decent housing, provide police, fund hospitals, improve transport or clean  the air we breathe. Get the basics right first then add the culture.

1000 Culture events 

These are not equality events as you have been having higher % of Non British events to say

Christian.

British Sovereignty  events 

Also you a Spending £million on these Culture Events that DO NOT SAVE LIVES

This money could better used with more POLICE to take Drug Gangs. Rapists. Killers off the streets.

LIFES ARE PRICELESS.....

I miss vibrant, live London, where streets are filled with live acts. Please allow buskers and artists! For all the full time skilled musicians i know, the streets are not only one part of their income but also the rehearsal space. Asking for affordable band rehearsal spaces for so many of them would be too much - at leastgive them the busking. Please and thank you

No one from outside the area should be able to buy property.Development of housing etc should be about capacity and congestion.

Putting more buses on the roads is not developing infrastructure, it is adding to congestion. Unfortunately Money rules not people. We will soon be like Mexico City or Bangkok.

We need more emergency service staff, police,

Nurses etc. People first.

Put a halt on people buying properties from abroad so that people living here might have a chance to buy!  So we might build a little security..?  

There have been so many developments around me and can I afford to buy one?  Can the dudes who drive the buses to afford to live anywhere close to their work?

THIS is infusing money to developers hands but then draining the economy when the rent paid to foreign investors go back for spending elsewhere, I've had some even seeking advice for me when on holiday to try and find apartments to buy to let in London with no intent to live here. 

Air B n B is killing community vibes as there's even more transience than ever in residential places too (off topic but this will also be stifling the economy of hotels, guest houses and the people who work there)

Love the idea of sport unite!! community situation to help tackle loneliness.  But again, unless it's people who work in London who live in London we keep distancing from each other.  Why build more and overcrowd areas even more,  (which makes you feel less like you want to go out and connect) rather than have funds and space for public spaces, trees, parks, games fields?

Approve skills development and apprenticeships as long as they don't end up exploiting people.

Brexit will now take place, but that will NEVER change the fact that London voted 59.9% to Remain in the EU. The Mayor needs to take this into account when planning ALL budgets and funding decisions. Remaining in the EU is the will of Londoners and should be addressed when planning budgets. Significant funding needs to be allocated to maintain, improve, develop and enhance London's links with Europe and the EU. This could include:

- funding to support EU citizens living in London e.g. financial support for visa applications and nationality requests;

- attracting EU-wide talent to come and live, work, study and retire in London;

- funding to support Londoners living in the EU e.g. grants and legal assistance to help legal battles against deportation orders in EU-26 countries;

- funding to support Londoners who will be forcibly returned from the EU-26 to the UK/London after Brexit (provision of housing, education, employment, healthcare etc) - is London ready for the forced returnees? (There could be up to 100,000 forced returnees)

- funding to attract European businesses to London, and funding to help prevent London-based firms from packing up and moving to the EU;

- funding for London universities to continue attracting students from across the EU to study at London universities, as well as funding for the EU students themselves (e.g. help with visa costs - remember there were NO VISAS and therefore NO VISA COSTS before Brexit so why should students from the EU suddenly have to start paying them?)

London is a European city with European values and all budgets must urgently address these facts.

Supporting skills development is great but I see nothing to help businesses create more jobs to utilise those newly acquired skills.

I would question what the funding for 1000 cultural and community events is actually for? Without any examples this does come across as if it could be a bit of a slush fund. Should this be a priority when some of these events could and would look for alternative funding if the mayors office didn't provide it. Has any analysis been done to see how many Londoners attend these cultural and community events? It could just be multiple events for the same 10% of people, which the 90% get no benefit from.