Draft London Environment Strategy Consultation 2017

The draft London Environment Strategy set out the Mayor’s vision of London’s environment to 2050. The draft strategy was published on the London.gov.uk website on 11 August 2017 for a 14-week public consultation. It set out the Mayor’s ambition to make London the greenest global city.

The Report to the Mayor provides a high-level summary and analysis of the issues raised during the consultation of the draft strategy, from both technical stakeholders and members of the public. This allowed the Mayor to have proper regard to the consultation responses when deciding whether to approve the final version of the strategy.

The public responded to the consultation via Talk London online discussion threads and surveys; and via focus groups, interviews, and representative polling. The Talk London datasets and emailed responses were analysed by policy area, and compared against insights from the representative polling and offline qualitative research (focus groups and interviews). This allowed the team to identify any similarities or differences between the views of the general population and the views of the Talk London community.

All datasets on a policy area were brought together in a single thematic summary report, which aimed to show where the balance of opinion lay, as well as highlight areas of disagreement or debate. These reports are provided in Appendix 6 of the Report to the Mayor and are also set out below, alongside the more detailed qualitative and quantitative research findings and data tables.