Building Strong Communities

I think the list is good. For me personally, having a child attend the local primary school has been really important in feeling connected and part of the local community. The local park, pub, coffee shops, community groups are also important. If there aren't opportunities for people to meet, get to know each other and then keep coming across each other you don't build a sense of community.

I run a WhatsApp group in my road. I have attempted to organise a few events but have found it very difficult motivating people to become involved. I am very keen to promote more of a sense of community in my street but as I have learnt, it is difficult to do this if few other people are interested. I will keep trying though!

My community ( communities) are divided on religious and political issues. There are many communities in my local area all divided and separate. They come together in their hatred of cyclists and people who litter. Otherwise they remain apart. I can' t imagine a single local community here. They have common hates but not common likes. What will bring them together in peace?

1 - People need to feel safe, secure and supported where they live.
2 - They then need to feel involved in the decision-making in the local area.
3 - They need to feel the area is clean and provides the services they need.
4 - They need to feel that the diverse communities all intermingle and work together to make a cohesive whole that benefits all.

60% of Londoners voted against Brexit. Some London boroughs voted Remain by a margin of 4:1. Being united against Brexit unites our great city. Being in the EU is the will of Londoners. Let's now campaign for Londypendence, in order to take London out of the corrupt and right-wing UK and back into the progressive, enlightened, egalitarian and prosperous EU. Let's restore freedom of movement and put an end, at least in London, to the current 'nationalist moment' along with all of its associated bigotry, xenophobia and outright racism.

Everyone I know in my community in southeast London agrees that this would be an excellent outcome for London to achieve. Many of us would prefer to see the whole of the UK re-join the EU, but that seems unlikely to be supported in some parts of the country. We don't want to start a fresh conflict with those regions, so it would seem preferable to respect the will of Londoners and take our great city out of the UK and back into the EU. We could even join forces with Scotland, which is on the same path.

Many of us are already starting to feel a strong increase in community relations and cohesion as we come out of lockdown and start to campaign for real to re-join the beloved and amazing EU.

As long as a person has the freedom to follow their lifestyle whatever it is, as long as it doesn't impose on anyone else. Places like New York, Berlin, Bangkok have things a person should be able to do in a free society, which you can't do in London.

Permission to use public space for community activities can make a real difference. Parkrun is a great example of this, we need to make maximum use of our public space for the things we enjoy e.g., Live music, outdoor eating (public BBQ's in parks), exercise, etc. There's too much weight given to those who complain about these activities and too little weight given to the benefits - e.g. closing Primrose Hill to everyone after dark because a small minority broke the rules.

Is there a point to all of this so-called consultation, when the favourite agenda of the day will always be promoted most heavily by the Mayor’s Office and the London Assembly?
Take for example the ridiculous traffic management schemes on our main roads, bus stop islands, silly wands separating cycle lanes that are hardly used except by illegal electric scooters, traffic chaos, high level of fumes, long journey delays etc. Emergency vehicles not getting through.
Does those at the London Assembly and TfL listen to our representations? NO!

A challenging issue is the changeover of people in London. Our area is a mixture of long established people and many short term renters for whom the area appears to be simply an address to live in. These two parts of the community are almost completely disconnected and it will take some genius ideas to make passing renters contribute to a strong community and want to stay around. I am not a genius unfortunately.

By the supporting of a taxation system that makes the sum dependent on the land value and not the building value, the empty spaces being held out of use for speculation will be better used and the unethical speculation in land values will cease. This sum is related to the potential or actual rent that any useful site can bring. This policy will create lower land costs for new activities and enable entrepreneurs to more easily get started. This in turn will reduce unemployment, poverty and homelessness.

Yes I agree with most of those but with the emphasis on autonomy. Space needs to be available for community use but, how it is used should not be dictated by a remote local authority. Funding is needed to get the ball rolling and guidance on how to be self sustaining.

I like to walk down my street & greet neighbours & fellow residents, talk, & also meet them at public meetings etc where our opinions are sought, local gatherings, eg Xmas Lunches, Council meetings, Local Residents events, etc all bonding us,

The survey was useful, thank you.
As were asked to choose between 3 of 12 choices (1. "Public services respond locally etc..."), could you have clustered these 12 into groups and asked for one or two from each?
Looking at it, there appears to be three main groups:
a) one group of desired community feelings of: trust (nos. 3 & 10); responsibility (no. 8), security/happiness (no. 6); and participation (nos. 4, 7, 11 & 12). All good in themselves and welcome, but...
b) another group seemed to be the enablers that *underpin* these desired effects (nos. 1 & 2)
c) and a last group which are outcomes of the first two, the enablers and the goodwill factors: with these it's easier to obtain investment in the community by those outside (no. 5) and to build stronger relationships (no. 9).
All these items have a place, but clustering them may allow deeper insights into the chain of causes and effects which produces community cohesion and may be helpful when working out what the community needs to grow.

Nothing has created greater division and unhappiness in my local area than LTNs. as residents we are best placed to know if our streets are used as "rat runs" (they aren't), enable people to walk safely (they do), allow all road users including cyclists to navigate efficiently (they do). So when councils impose them, lie about "rat running", fail to acknowledge the extra pollution and traffic pushed out to boundary roads affecting other residents, and ignore the overwhelming negative reaction to them, our faith in community is damaged. Add to this the Stasi-like surveillance and blatant cash-cow PCN ploy then the notion of community is a joke.