Key information
Request reference number: MGLA271022-2142
Date of response:
Summary of request
Your request
Can you please send me a list of all C20 built London parks and greens infrastructure
which are excluded from the All London Green Grid Supplementary Planning Document
2011 and therefore excluded from London Plan policies for green infrastructure
protections and investments.
A park is a park is a park in purpose, design and spatial location needs based, especially
so for supporting zoned London population hyper growths. How was this bad growth
highly ideological ignore C20 designed and built parks and greens policy devised and
approved by City Hall?
Note, I refer to London C20 parks and greens, not to London's C20 Green Belt.
Our response
Officers are not aware that any known parks or green infrastructure were excluded from the maps used in the All London Green Grid Supplementary Planning Guidance (March 2012).
The London Development Agency and GLA worked with Greenspace Information for Greater London (GiGL) to produce the maps in the document. These maps used datasets for regional parks, metropolitan parks, district parks, local parks and open spaces, small open spaces, pocket parks, and other private open spaces.
These datasets are not always comprehensive or up to date, particularly for the smallest spaces, and they rely on boroughs designating open spaces and updating GiGL.
No parks are excluded from London Plan policies.
The London Plan 2021 can be viewed here.
Policy G1: Green Infrastructure sets out that 'London’s network of
green and open spaces, and green features in the built environment, should be protected and enhanced.'
Policy G4: Open space states that 'Development proposals should: 1) not result in
the loss of protected open space 2) where possible create areas of publicly accessible open space, particularly in areas of deficiency.'
If you have any further questions relating to this matter, please contact us, quoting
reference MGLA271022-2142.