London and its surrounding green belt

Greater London & the London Plan

The London Plan is the Mayor of London’s over-arching strategic planning policy and covers all Inner and Outer London boroughs. Each borough’s local planning policy must conform with it. The Mayor makes other strategies too. [this page needs revision]

Our London Plan main page tells more about successive London Plans and has links to Just Space engagement with each of them.

Many other planning activities go on at City Hall or in linked organisations like TfL and the London Enterprise Partnership but none of these is subject to the full statutory consultation and EiP process which governs the London Plan so their democratic legitimacy is much weaker.  Important among these other plans are

The Mayor’s Housing Strategy

The London Infrastructure Plan 2050 A very unofficial document but the site of major decisions on the future of the city, never debated in public.

London Environment Strategy

The London Economic Strategy was not updated for many years. However in January 2015 London First, a business lobby group, submitted a report London 2036, largely prepared by consultants McKinsey and Co, to the London Enterprise Panel. This activity is in some way a precursor to the production of a new London Economic Strategy.


Just Space work on the London Plan up to and including the version published finally in 2011 is, for the moment, all on the web site justspace2010

The debates about the Amendments to the London Plan in 2012/3 (known as REMA) were covered in our wikispaces site [now non-existent and probably lost forever ]