Policy information sourced from City of London Local Plan
CS19: Open Spaces and Recreation
To encourage healthy lifestyles for all the City’s communities through improved access to open space and facilities, increasing the amount and quality of open spaces and green infrastructure, while enhancing biodiversity, by:
- Seeking to maintain a ratio of at least 0.06 hectares of high quality, publicly accessible open space per 1,000 weekday daytime population:
- protecting existing open space, particularly that of historic interest, or ensuring that it is replaced on redevelopment by space of equal or improved quantity and quality on or near the site;
- securing public access, where possible, to existing private spaces;
- securing additional publicly accessible open space and pedestrian routes, where practical, particularly in the eastern part of the City;
- creating additional civic spaces from underused highways and other land where this would not conflict with other strategic objectives;
- encouraging high quality green roofs, roof gardens and terraces, particularly those which are publicly accessible, subject to the impact on the amenity of adjacent occupiers.
- Improving access to new and existing open spaces, including those in neighbouring boroughs, promoting public transport access to nearby open space outside the City and ensuring that open spaces meet the needs of all of the City’s communities.
- Increasing the biodiversity value of open spaces, paying particular attention to sites of importance for nature conservation such as the River Thames. Protecting the amenity value of trees and retaining and planting more trees wherever practicable.
- Improving inclusion and access to affordable sport, play and recreation, protecting and enhancing existing facilities and encouraging the provision of further facilities within major developments.
For more information please see the Local Plan