Social Infrastructure
The Mayor has published supplementary planning guidance (SPG) on social infrastructure.
Social infrastructure includes a wide range of services and facilities, including:
- health
- education
- community
- cultural
- play
- recreation and sports facilities
- faith
- emergency facilities
- many other local services and facilities that contribute to quality of life.
What guidance does the SPG provide?
The guidance:
- gives a range of information sources to evaluate need for social infrastructure at the strategic planning level, starting with the GLA’s own demographic projections
- emphasises the need for planning across services to ensure social infrastructure meets the broader built environment aims of the London Plan
- provides advice on planning for Lifetime Neighbourhoods
- describes Department of Health models for service delivery in a way that should help planners and health professionals to communicate with each other
- sets targets for the provision of burial space based upon projections of need and existing capacity as set out in the 2011 Audit of London Burial Provision
- provides a comprehensive range of resources for assessing applications for social infrastructure
The document
The Social Infrastructure SPG can be downloaded using the following link:
Consultation
The Mayor published the Social Infrastructure SPG for public consultation for a period of 12 weeks from until the 5 October 2014.
More information on the consultation can be found on the following link:
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