Agenda item

Report of the Acting Director of Community & Children’s Services.

The Board received a report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services and considered the draft Local Plan whichset out the City Corporation’s vision, strategy, objectives and policies for planning the City of London. It was currently undergoing a period of consultation, before a final version of the plan was prepared and published in autumn 2013. Responses to the consultation were due on 11March 2013.

Officers informed the Board that as the Local Plan would have an impact on health and wellbeing in the City; it was identified by the chairman that the Health and Wellbeing Board should respond to the consultation. A draft response was been prepared for the Board to approve.

The draft was developed by the City and Hackney Public Health Directorate with input from primary care commissioning, City and Hackney Clinical Commissioning

Group, the Commissioning Support Unit and the NHS Healthy Urban Development Unit. The response has been developed using the Healthy Urban Development Unit

(HUDU)’s Watch Out for Health Impact Assessment Tool.

With regards to the recommendation relating to amenity space Members agreed that privately owned facilities taking part in the Community Toilet Scheme must be well sign-posted for members of the public, and asked that this be reflected in the recommendation. Members also agreed that in order to strength recommendations 14, 15, 24 and 25 the word ‘should’ would be replaced by ‘must’.

RESOLVED:

Members endorsed the response and its recommendations with the agreed amendments.