London’s first City Resilience Strategy sets out how the capital can remain resilient and prepared for future challenges
Fire and City Resilience
We're working to support the London of tomorrow and to improve our city so that it provides opportunities for all, as well as creating a great place to live.
Our vision for a safe and resilient city
London is a diverse, open and vibrant city, home to of 8.9 million residents, predicted to grow to 10 million over the next 10 years. We are a cosmopolitan and diverse city, four in ten of us were born abroad and in our schools over 300 different languages are spoken, making London the world’s most linguistically diverse city.
However, today, London is also faced with unprecedented challenges, such as climate change, urbanisation, rapid population growth, social inequality and the risks associated with economic integration and interconnectivity.
London has demonstrated strength, unity and determination in response to many previous crises. The key to successful resilience is to create a city that has the systems, approaches and flexibility to deal with unpredictable events, and to recover to a new, and better, normal when things go wrong.
Our vision is clear. In 2050 London will be a city that:
- starts with resilient citizens, actively participating in city life
- is capable of adapting to changing social and economic vulnerabilities and local needs
- has the agility to develop resilience measures that can address long-term stresses, turning future challenges into opportunities
- mobilises its collective intelligence to improve societal wellbeing for current and future generations
- is continuously preparing and developing to face all types of disruptive shock, with resilience part of our day to day thinking and actions.
Read more about the role of the Greater London Authority (GLA) and the Mayor of London in emergency planning for London.
Below you can find out more about our London Resilience Strategy for the future, as well as how we're working to make London a resilient and safer city.
Our strategies and plans
London Fire Brigade needs to learn to adapt in a more agile and rapid way. This plan sets out the vision for change.
The London Safety Plan outlines the priorities of the London Fire Brigade to help make London a safer city.
Our work for a safer and more resilient London
London Fire Brigade (LFB)'s role it to make London the safest global city. Find out more about their work to protect London and Londoners.
We're working to ensure London is ready to prevent, respond, recover and learn from emergencies.
The London Resilience Forum sets the strategy for the London Resilience Partnership work.
CTPN brings together strategic leaders, practitioners and academics to inform city-level policies and practices.
Latest reports
Grenfell Inquiry updates
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has issued updates on Grenfell Tower recommedations.
The Mayor oversees the London Fire Brigade, which is part of the Greater London Authority Group, and he has undertaken to ensure that the recommendations directed at the Brigade are implemented.
Stay up to date with our work
London Fire Brigade reports
As part of budget guidance, the Mayor asks that the LFB (London Fire Commissioner) publish financial and performance monitoring in relation to Brigade’s two main strategic plans; the Transformation Delivery Plan (TDP) and the London Safety Plan (LSP) 2017.
Read the 2021-22 report