Community-led recovery plan for London, 2022

60 diverse groups from across London have been working through the pandemic on a bottom-up vision for how London should recover. The future must be different from the past and it’s urgent.

The URL for this landing page is http://JustSpace.org.uk/Recovery

Download the full Recovery Plan
Download PDF for printing or reading on screen

Annex 1:  The process of the Community Led Recovery Plan – Voices from the community, mainly the work of Sion Lee (download PDF)

Press Release (summary): Download PDF or download DOCX

London Assembly: write-up of our presentation 26 September 2022 and video link

Slides in detail on all the policies, download as PowerPoint or as PDF

Slides a short series on Just Space and main imperatives of the Recovery Plan PDF

To request a paper copy by post, to make arrangements to pick up a quantity, or to comment or contriblute, email m.edwards@ucl.ac.uk

Meanwhile the Mayor of London’s Recovery Board has published its Structural Inequalities Report on 25 May 2022. Download here. Subsequently we learn that the recovery board is being reconstituted with less emphasis on recovery (do they think Covid is over?). Housing issues —previously excluded from recovery work because the people in charge refused to join in— are now included, however. There was a (separate) housing report in 2020 but nothing since then.

23 July: Suzanne Hall at LSE published a blog on her many research projects on the social value of high streets in London. Very supportive evidence for us https://abhiedge.com/the-socio-economic-value-of-high-streets-in-urban-peripheries-london-school-of-economics