Agenda item

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

Health and Wellbeing Board Members received an overview of local developments and policy issues related to the work of the Board. The updates included:

· Safer City Partnership update.

· Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment.

· The Mayor of London’s Health Inequalities Strategy.

· City of London Health Profile 2017,

· City Plan 2036.

· London Sexual Health Transformation Programme award,

· Air Quality: A Briefing for Public Health Directors,

· Financial Abuse Task and Finish Group.

Members noted that The City of London Health Profile 2017 had been published. Public Health England produces Health Profiles for local authorities which contain summary information on the health of the people in each local authority area and factors that may influence their health. The City of London performs at or better than the national average for the following indicators: Life Expectancy, Children in Poverty, Preventable Mortality, NEETs, Fuel Poverty, Excess Weights in Adults, Smoking Prevalence and Alcohol Admissions.

The Board also noted that the City Corporation is reviewing the existing City of London Local Plan to ensure that it continues to provide an appropriate framework for development in the City up to 2036. The revised Local Plan (City Plan 2036) will set out the City Corporation’s vision, strategy and objectives for development and change in the Square Mile over the next 20 years. Following initial public consultation on key planning issues last autumn, we are now working on a new draft Plan which we expect to publish for consultation towards the end of 2017. The draft Plan will contain policies covering a wide range of topics including land uses, transport, utilities, environment, heritage and leisure, all of which will affect the future City.

Resolved – that the report be received.