Tackling London’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is a huge challenge. The impact of these emissions goes far beyond the city’s boundaries. From the electronics we buy and the food we eat to the clothes we wear, most are produced and transported globally. The Mayor, together with London Councils and ReLondon, has jointly commissioned Leeds University to develop a historic...

Homelessness Housing in general has been explicitly excluded from policies and strategies concerned with economic fairness, since it is a major responsibility of the Mayor dealt with through its own strategies elsewhere. However, homelessness is the extreme facet of inequality which is included in the indicators of economic fairness. Homelessness can take many forms, and the extreme of that is people...

Local authorities' action under the homelessness provisions of the 1985 and 1996 Housing Acts (financial year). Homelessness provision made by local authorities in London, 2004/05 to 2017/18. Source: DCLG P1E Homelessness returns (quarterly) Households "Excludes cases for whom a duty was owed but no accommodation was being secure" are those accepted as owed a main duty, or awaiting a decision on their application,...

#Homelessness#Housing#economic-fairness

Raising Living Standards London is an expensive city, with high land values driving up the costs of housing and a range of other essential services, such as childcare. Additionally, the infrastructure that exists was not designed for a city with the size and diversity of modern London. This leads to higher costs in some other aspects of life, particularly when travel...

Introduction The GiGL Open Space Friends Group subset provides locations and boundaries for selected open space sites in Greater London. The chosen sites represent sites that have established Friends Groups in Greater London and are therefore important to local communities, even if they may not be accessible open spaces, or don’t typically function as destinations for leisure, activities and community engagement*. Friends Groups...

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Introduction The GiGL Spaces to Visit dataset provides locations and boundaries for open space sites in Greater London that are available to the public as destinations for leisure, activities and community engagement. It includes green corridors that provide opportunities for walking and cycling. The dataset has been created by Greenspace Information for Greater London CIC (GiGL). As London’s...

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As part of the Cultural Infrastructure Plan, an annual audit of pubs using the Inter-Departmental Business Register data is produced. The overall number of pubs in London has remained largely unchanged since 2018. There were 3,535 pubs in London in 2023. Overall employee numbers increased in 2023 for the first time since the pandemic in 2020. In 2023, there...

#borough-economic#pubs

These modelled annual population estimates were created for use the GLA's population projections. They are intended to provide a consistent series of annual population and components of change between census years with all change accounted for by the standard components of change (births, deaths, and migration). The official mid-year population estimates published by ONS are available here. The original detailed internal migration data...

#Demography#Population#internal migration