Planning for a better London

Forget the idea of extending the Bakerloo line to Hayes, leaving people living in this part of London no direct route up to central London. It's a totally unnecessary vanity project 

London has outer boroughs as well inner. In Bexley borough we have Bexleyheath and Erith shopping centres. Both are very run down, uninviting and shops are always shutting down. I'm sure there are many places like this in outer London. These should be looked at and have money spent on bringing these up to date before new areas are built. 

We feel we are the forgotten parts of London. 

Construction Consolidation Centres (CCCs) were stated as a key methodology to help control London's freight, while increasing road safety for vulnerable road users and helping to improve air quality and carbon emissions related to construction freight.

However, the unintended consequences of conflicting policy-making, such as the Direct Vision Standard, is severely restricting the core capability of CCCs to function, and therefore destroying commercial viability. 

The logical approach to improve road safety across London, while also encouraging much greater use of CCCs, would be to permit designated 'safe-routes' for freight to CCCs. For example, along major 'A-Roads' with dual-carriageways and segregated cycleways, such the A2 and Woolwich Road.

This approach not only supports the DVS but also validates the CCC methodology and enables commercial viability.         

To grow the economy you need places for light industry and thus the ease with raw materials to come in and completed goods flow out - the current LTNs 20’s don’t do this . What’s needed is a complete redesign.

The current situation will result in small pockets of housing that no industry or local shops ( the 15 min city fails to take account off the diverse needs) 

More working from home encourages to reduce the load on the transport infrastructure to encore more people into buy good & services 

In spite of the undisputed success of the Elizabeth line and the economic benefits. There a no current active major TfL network expansions anywhere being built. Would love to see some focus on accelerating the expansion of the tube network, the dlr, cross rail 2… plus others. If the TfL network expands, houses and redevelopment follows - therefore I’m surprised there are no spades in the ground on TfL network expansions anywhere.

Would love to see more focus on getting developments actually started. In my borough there’s a lot of land banked, which has permission to build. Tfl itself owns a lot of land around Woolwich too - none of which even has plans in to be submitted.  How do you use your powers to get developments actually started? And in terms of social housing, the Greenwich builds programme is woefully underfunded. The mayors office should release capital to seed projects and get them moving. Also stop enforcing quotas of different types of accommodation, just left developers build viable developments - the market will adjust and people will move around and create some dynamics in the property market. In summary I’d love to see focus on (I) getting developers to build what they have permission for already, (ii) fining devleopors for land banking and not doing anything, (iii) TfL and network rail own a lot of land, lets get pressure on them to actually build, (iv) release capital to orgs like Greenwich builds and get some social housing actually built. 

If you want this to be inclusive then work with a gender informed approach. Understand the statistics and make sure the night time economy works for everyone - making London feel safer and be safer.  Help with real time data available in the transport system with better connections and hubs that inform travellers particularly at night about safer journey options. 

Use technology to help connect people to grow the circular economy so there is less waste and more collaboration. 

Retrofit to make more creative spaces that people can easily accessed physically, financially, emotionally and intellectually. 

 

My idea is to reduce population, remove the gig "economy" and the housing "market".  We will then have a real economy, based on real contributions and real people.

Can there be more control on the aesthetics of new buildings? I appreciate that there is no consensus as to what constitutes good design, and I often like contemporary design but, there is so much bland and sometimes ugly development that it is in danger of destroying the character of our city. 

Let's be honest now, who thinks Charing Cross Rd has been improved aesthetically in the last decade?