The Mayor’s London Plan 2021 committed to make more than half of London green by 2050[1], but what progress has been made on this commitment to date?
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) London cited over 50 separate threats to green spaces across London in its March 2022 report, Forever Green?2 It identified six key threat areas to London’s green spaces, including:
- Local Plan Reviews
- Parks
- Playing fields/sports pitches
- Valuable local green spaces
- Planning applications on Green Belt Land
For the first of a two-part investigation into protecting and improving nature in London, the London Assembly Environment Committee will meet tomorrow to explore how green spaces are protected in London, what existing threats there are, and how plans to make London greener are progressing.
The Committee will also look at the Mayor’s progress on making half of London green by 2050, and if he is on track to be the ‘greenest Mayor ever’.
Guests at the meeting include:
- Matthew Frith, Director of Policy and Research, London Wildlife Trust
- Alice Roberts, Head of Green Space Campaigns, Campaign to Protect Rural England
- Navdeep Deol, Chair, National Park City Foundation
- Abby Crisostomo, Head of Green Infrastructure, Greater London Authority (GLA)
- Jane Hull, Area Director (South East and London), Forestry Commission
The meeting will take place on Wednesday 20 December from 10am, in The Chamber, at City Hall, Kamal Chunchie Way, E16 1ZE.
Media and members of the public are invited to attend.
The meeting can also be viewed LIVE or later via webcast or YouTube.
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Notes to editors
- Mayor of London, London Plan, March 2021
- CPRE London Nowhere safe: 50 London parks and green spaces under threat March 2022
- Full agenda papers.
- Léonie Cooper AM, Chair of the Environment Committee, is available for interview.
- Find out more about the work of the Environment Committee.
- As well as investigating issues that matter to Londoners, the London Assembly acts as a check and a balance on the Mayor.
For more information, please contact Tony Smyth in the Assembly Media Office on 07510 488715. For out of hours media enquiries please call 020 7983 4000 and ask for the Assembly duty press officer.