London Recovery programme September 2020

THE LONDON RECOVERY PROGRAMME
Presentation of the missions
September 2020

Welcome
This presentation covers the
context for recovery, looks at the
issue of the Central Activities
Zone (CAZ) and then presents an
overview of the recovery
programme before presenting the
refined missions.
3. Recovery Missions
A recap of the framework for
the Recovery Programme,
and the refined missions for
Board comment and sign off.
1. The Context for Recovery 2. Central Activities Zone
Recovery takes place
alongside transition work and
the backdrop of the global
economy and ongoing work.
We have a particular and
urgent problem to consider
and respond to in the future
of the CAZ.

THE CONTEXT FOR RECOVERY
Transition & Recovery
The Transition Programme has
provided the foundations for
London’s recovery: for example
through workstreams on
business reopening, outbreak
control, arts and culture.
Recovery missions identify
priorities for collaborative working
on key shared priorities –
providing the focus for our
cross-London recovery
programme.
This is underpinned by significant ongoing work across GLA,
Boroughs and other partners of relevance to recovery, including on:
• Public Health
• Employment & Skills
• Policing & Public Safety
• VAWG
• Business Support
The Central Activities Zone
The Central Activities Zone
(CAZ) is an area of specific
concern given the unique
impacts of the pandemic.
These impacts on the CAZ will play a key part in London’s
economic future and global status. Addressing them will
require a coordinated approach to safeguarding in the short-
term and preparing for long-term change.
Key to London’s economic future
• Business Promotion
• Housing Development
• Homelessness
• Transport & Infrastructure
• Capital Investment

CENTRAL ACTIVITIES ZONE (CAZ) RECOVERY
Ongoing transition activities:
Coordinated and clear public
messaging.
Increasing public confidence
Understanding and supporting the future of the CAZ to protect London’s global position:
Developing an evidence base on the future role of the CAZ.
Safe public transport, Streetspace
and promotion of active travel.
Supporting greater visibility and
use of testing.
Supporting business through a second wave Securing support from Central Government
New policy and strategy development (across
planning, transport, culture, night-time economy,
regeneration and economic development).
The Mayor is commissioning a major study
and analysis of how the CAZ will be affected
by the pandemic and ensuing cultural /
economic change.
Initiatives to support business.
Understanding office staffing plans.
An extension to the business rates holiday, or a discount for
businesses in the central London area for the next year.
Targeted support for jobs and the workforce for retail,
hospitality, leisure and creative businesses.
Retention of tax-free shopping for EU nationals.

Missions-based approach
This approach is based on the work of the Institute for
Innovation and Public Purpose at University College
London. Missions should be time-bound and specific.
They should be designed to be bold, ambitious yet
realistic enough so that they can gather wide support
for delivery. The key is on fostering widespread
collaboration across different sectors.
A flexible and agile approach
Part of a missions-based approach is being honest that we cannot do
everything but are choosing to focus on a few key areas that might
really shift the dial. Missions may change and adapt in response to
emerging evidence and issues. Similarly, new missions may be
developed where appropriate.

We have one grand challenge
Restore confidence in the city, minimise the impact on
London’s communities and build back better the city’s
economy and society.
9 Missions, shaped by 3 key dimensions
In response to this Grand
Challenge, we are developing a
set of missions, shaped by
3 key dimensions.
1. Key Outcomes
2. Cross-Cutting Principles
3. Engagement

Key Outcomes
Reverse the pattern of rising
unemployment and lost
economic growth caused by
the economic scarring
of Covid-19.
Support our communities,
including those most impacted
by the virus.
Narrow social, economic and
health inequalities.
Accelerate delivery of a cleaner,
greener London.
Help young people to flourish
with access to support and
opportunities.

Cross-Cutting Principles
Recognising and addressing
structural inequalities,
promoting a fairer, more inclusive
London and focusing on
supporting the most vulnerable.
Prioritising sustainability,
mitigating climate change and
improving the resilience of
our city.
Collaborating and involving
London’s diverse communities.
Improving the health and
wellbeing of all Londoners.
Innovating and using digital
technology and data to meet
emerging needs.
Ensuring affordability of
measures and providing value
for money.

Engagement
68,937 total site visits to Talk
London (52,272 unique); 21,444
members read our emails and
1,095 comments from 609
members (aged 16-87). 700
business stakeholders surveyed.
26 community grant
applications awarded, with a
focus on BAME Young People,
BAME women, Disabled, Migrant
/ Refugee / Asylum seekers,
Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino,
Somali, Armenian, Black African /
Caribbean, and Portuguese
speaking communities.
70 community conversations
submitted from 60 different
organisations involving over
1000 Londoners.
+650 business stakeholders
and 32,500 LinkedIn followers

Recovery Missions
Mental Health
& Wellbeing
Digital Access
For All
Healthy Food,
Healthy Weight
Good Work
For All
A Robust
Safety Net
High Streets
For All
A New Deal for
Young People
A Green New
Deal
Enabling Resilient
Communities

Recovery Mission:
Tackle the climate and ecological
emergencies and improve air
quality by doubling the size of
London's green economy by 2030
to accelerate job creation for all.
Examples of the types of projects that might deliver this mission:
A Green New Deal
Accelerate programmes that increase access to green spaces, support active travel and
zero emission fleets to eradicate air pollution, help adapt to climate change and deliver
better health.
Mobilise finance to support environmental programmes and provide support for the growth
of London’s clean tech and circular businesses to meet our climate targets (London to
reach net zero by 2030).
Scale-up programmes to retrofit and improve existing buildings, create jobs and tackle
fuel poverty.

Recovery Mission:
By 2025, every Londoner is able to
access the support they need to
prevent financial hardship.
A Robust Safety Net
Establish strategic partnerships involving funders, councils and civil society organisations to
plug the existing gaps in crisis support and advice services across London.
Help excluded groups access support by embedding council-run, charitable and other
relevant services in community settings (e.g. schools, faith settings, community food
providers, health settings).
Develop a comprehensive local welfare offer in every borough in London that focusses on
preventing hardship.
Create a single point of access that connects Londoners to a range of advice services (e.g.
benefits, debt, housing, utilities, immigration) and crisis support (e.g. financial
support, food).

Recovery Mission:
Deliver enhanced public spaces
and exciting new uses for
underused high street buildings in
every Borough by 2025, working
with London’s diverse
communities.
High Streets for All
Pilot high street Innovation Zones and related planning, licensing, property management
(catalyse private landlord inventiveness & collaboration) and economic development
approaches (including discretionary rate relief).
Foster a culture of ideas, collaboration and invention to bring vacant and underused
buildings into productive use; promoting local employment and near home working,
protecting existing community and cultural spaces and introducing new types of
businesses and civic organisations.
Capitalise on TfL / Borough Street Space programmes to promote walking, cycling and wider
accessibility, enhanced public spaces, parks/urban greening and cultural engagement.
Develop the capacity of local authorities and town centre partnerships to work with
community groups and the private sector to plan for, safeguard and directly deliver a
diverse, resilient and thriving mix of High street and town centre activity within easy
reach of all Londoners.

Recovery Mission:
By 2024 all young people in need
are entitled to a personal mentor
and all young Londoners have
access to quality local youth
activities.
A New Deal for Young People
Recognise and endorse the importance of positive professional youth work.
Developing personalised mentoring schemes and other tailored support which focus on
those young people facing the greatest barriers to realising their potential - from social skills
such as confidence & mental health support alongside educational and employment skills.
Align funding and resources across London so there is place-based access to youth
provision across the whole of London
Ensure Young People’s voice is at the heart of shaping and delivering the mission.
Promote a strong emphasis on the link between youth workers, youth activities, positive
mental & physical health and safety.

Recovery Mission:
Support Londoners into good
jobs with a focus on sectors key to
London’s recovery.
Helping Londoners into Good Work
By close working with employers and job creation initiatives such as green recovery to
promote good work.
By coordinating skills, careers and employment support so there is ‘no wrong door
approach’ for Londoners; and ensuring that employment and enterprise provide a secure
route out of poverty.
By establishing sector specific London 'Academies' to support Londoners to gain relevant
skills and move into good work in (not exhaustive) digital; health; social care; green
economy, and creative and cultural industries.
By supporting Londoners hardest hit by the pandemic including young people, newly
unemployed, people with caring responsibilities and people at risk of redundancy into good
work, while ensuring that Londoners with the most complex needs are not left behind.

Recovery Mission:
Mental Health & Wellbeing
Enable wellbeing ambassadors to be in places where people most affected by the
pandemic already choose to spend time to offer wider support and services.
Design the role of a wellbeing ambassador in partnership with local people, building local
capacity and developing a scheme that will offer culturally appropriate training, support and
coaching. We will learn from and build on similar schemes and networks.
Starting with those communities most affected by the pandemic;
By 2025 London will have a quarter
of a million wellbeing ambassadors,
supporting Londoners where they
live, work and play.

Recovery Mission:
Every Londoner to have access to
good connectivity, basic digital
skills and the device or support
they need to be online by 2025.
Digital Access for All
Training all adults, including job seekers, in basic digital skills.
Making full fibre broadband available in areas with poor coverage, such as social housing.
Making it easier for Londoners to access free Wi-Fi outside their home by identifying
spaces – such as libraries – where it possible to work online for free.
Understanding how digital exclusion affected Londoners during the pandemic, and how
local councils and the voluntary sector responded to the problem.
Targeting the most vulnerable – such as schoolchildren, learners and those shielding – with
the devices or data allowance they need to lift them out of digital exclusion, while ensuring
they stay safe online.

Recovery Mission:
By 2025 every Londoner lives in a
healthy food neighbourhood.
Healthy Food, Healthy Weight
Ensure every Londoner has access to healthy, culturally appropriate, and sustainable
community food provision within their neighbourhood (e.g. cooking classes, food gardens,
healthier food schemes).
Develop high streets in the most deprived areas into these healthy food environments.
Expand the School Superzones programme to enable children to live, learn and play in
healthy neighbourhoods.
Design the characteristics of a London healthy food neighbourhood with partners and
citizens (e.g. water fountains, green space, places for breastfeeding, healthy food options).
Starting with those communities most affected by the pandemic;

Recovery Mission:
Enabling Resilient communities
Amplify unheard Londoners’ voices and support Londoners to shape recovery in their own
communities (e.g. citizens juries).
Ensure local collaboration between statutory, businesses and VCS organisations (e.g.
community hubs, volunteering, bereavement support).
Develop and build the reach of mutual aid, faith and equality grassroots groups.
There is an opportunity to build on the strength of community response – with
coordinated collaboration and support, targeting the areas and groups that need it
the most.
Collaborate across the sector to reform funding structures for civil society.
London’s recovery must be
underpinned by strong and thriving
communities. (TBC)

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