Policy information sourced from City of London Local Plan
CS22: Social Infrastructure and Opportunities
To maximise opportunities for the City’s residential and working communities to access suitable health, social and educational facilities and opportunities, while fostering cohesive communities and healthy lifestyles, by:
- Maximising opportunities for delivering services and facilities for the City’s communities, particularly residents:
- continuing to work in partnership with neighbouring boroughs to deliver accessible additional educational, health and community services and facilities;
- promoting opportunities for training and improving residents’ business and other skills;
- supporting the development and capacity of the voluntary sector.
- Providing adequate health care facilities and services for City residents and workers and creating healthy urban environments:
- protecting and enhancing existing public health facilities and providing new facilities where necessary;
- encouraging the provision of private health facilities;
- supporting the continued presence and improvement of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in the City;
- ensuring that the use, design and management of new development and spaces help deliver healthy outcomes, particularly for more deprived residents.
- Protecting and enhancing existing community facilities and providing new facilities where required, whilst allowing flexibility in the use of underused facilities, including places of worship. There should be no overall loss of community facilities in the City, where a need exists.
- Improving the skills and education of all the City’s communities:
- providing adequate educational facilities and services to meet the community’s needs;
- protecting and enhancing existing education facilities including schools, adult and higher education premises, and ensuring that new facilities are sited in appropriate locations;
- continuing to provide and improve social and educational services through the City’s libraries;
- ensuring adequate childcare facilities, including nursery provision and crèches. Encouraging nursery providers and businesses to establish additional childcare facilities, where a need exists.
For more information please see the Local Plan