Wellbeing and Sustainability Measure for London

As long as regular working people are taxed highly, while all the billionaires, millionaires, ceos and directors pay a small portion of tax, the rest of us will live pay check to oay check and never be able to afford a house or flat that is freehold and 100% full ownership. And companies need to give better pensions. People can't retire anymore because pensions are terrible and costs are soo high.

Generally out of touch with the struggle most people are facing to feed their families and heat their homes. This is the number one priority. All the other stuff about wellbeing is not relevant when many people are worried about just paying their bills. Rather than wasting money in pointless surveys how about cut your staff and reduce our council tax

Today I saw a ladybird in my garden. They're quite common in summer. I've designed a garden for wildlife, which requires some effort. Many gardens in our street have been left uncared for by the short-term tenants of buy-to-let landlords (they could give the tenants some basic gardening tools and a clause in the lease, the landlords extract enough money from tenants in rent), or completely concreted-over by some owners. This deterioration began some years ago increasing over time. The words that express what I really think about all this probably wouldn't be allowed in your talk.

Having Wellbeing and Sustainability Measures are a positive thing, but they need to be more comprehensive. It needs to include a more progressive approach to how the authorities deal with race and gender inequality, violence, injustices. For instance, the government introduced Sus-laws that the police are using, targeting Black and ethnic minority citizens. That cannot be right and needs to end.
Racism and misogyny crops up time and again; its ugly; in schools, universities, NHS, the police and army. It cannot continue and measures must be introduced to train all new employees and the existing ones. We all need to feel safe in London and in doing our jobs. Injustice breeds violence and resentment. We simply cannot afford to have services that are not performing justly. London can do better and it can do better together, therefore, we need to speak with one voice. Discrimination is not acceptable. Wherever it appears we need to stop it, no matter at what level we are. It cannot continue to make people feel unwanted anywhere in London. We are a great city and we can do better.

I think the single most important issue for most people is safety and addressing antisocial behaviour whether it's fly-tipping, aggressive dogs, not picking up after dogs, mobile phone snatching, intimidating groups of youths and, for women, feeling safe in their own neighbourhoods. More community police would be a good start.

This Wellbeing and Sustainability Measure appears relatively comprehensive in its undertaking. However, financing seem an overwhelming factor in determining the implementation of such strategies: perhaps a favorable government, or a different view of how public finance functions, or can be made to work. Subjectively speaking, public officials need to buy in to the notion of wellbeing over systematic profit-manufacturing and entitled inequality.

Why are seniors the forgotten people, so much is offered to support young people and people with young families, but as always brush older people aside, we don’t all own houses or have large pensions, many live alone and go days without seeing or speaking to anyone, many struggle to walk far, therefore reliable public transport is essential, what about affordable dedicated housing for older people

What concerns me is that there is huge disparity between those who are comfortably housed and have work, food, heating, company, health care etc. and those who are disadvantaged by being in poorly maintained housing, with high levels of pollution, noise, antisocial behaviour etc. 100 years ago these issues were addressed by Peabody Estates etc. What can we do now?

Nothing really seems to being done to protect us from vehicle pollution

Are there not already accepted criteria and benchmarks for wellbeing and sustainability that we should assess London against? Economists, demographers, social scientists, environmentalists - help us get this right, save us from re-inventing wheels.
Another point: wellbeing and sustainability require decent space and resources for each person, but they're not making London any bigger, so less space per head as more of us live here. Not just a London problem of course, but should London start to think about some policies?

I question why we were asked about what we think most Londoners want, rather than what I/we want? I think you will get different responses, and it seems to me it's of more use to know what people want themselves than ask their opinion on what others may want? How do you know how good we are at assessing other people's views? And what's the benefit of knowing people's opinions of others?

Difficult to say goodbye to petrol driven vehicles when you can't park outside your own house. Plenty of jobs maybe available, but are they in anything other than service industries? London can't survive on JUST service based jobs... About time someone in City Hall picked up the challenge and encourage manufacturing...

More action on crime, my local area has become a hotbed of muggings, phone thefts, etc. All perpetrated by gangs of young people on bikes. Every incident reported to local police who do nothing but victim blame "don't have your phone visible at tube station" , "be more aware of your surroundings" etc. Loved living here for 30 + years but getting scary to go out at night alone now. Should be safe to use your phone outside a tube station!

What do you think of this Wellbeing and Sustainability Measure?
Fine - if it acted on.

Have we missed anything out? If so, please let us know.
Perhaps grants for electric charging points for those living in flats.

Is anything about it unclear or confusing?
No

Enabling more to travel by active transport would improve many measures. Health (physical and mental), air quality, climate change, to mention the more obvious.