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The Collaborative City Working together to shape ’s future March 2008 THE PROJECT The London Collaborative aims to increase the capacity of London’s public sector to respond to the key strategic challenges facing the capital. These include meeting the needs of a growing, increasingly diverse and transient population; extending prosperity while safe- guarding cohesion and wellbeing, and preparing for change driven by carbon reduction. For more information visit young- foundation.org/london Abchurch Lane Abchurch Yard Acton Acton Green Adams Court Addington Addle Hill Addle Street Adelphi Wharf Albion Place Aldborough Hatch Alder- manbury Aldermanbury Square ’s Walk Alders- brook Street Aldersgate Street Aldgate Aldgate High Street Alexandra Park Allhal- lows and Stairs Allhallows Lane Amen Corner Amen CornerThe Amen Collaborative Court America Square City Amerley Anchor Wharf Angel Working Angel Court together Angel to Court shape Angel London’s Passage future Angel Street Arthur Street Artillery Lane Artillery AperfieldLane Artillery Apothecary Passage StreetArundel Appold Stairs StreetArundel Ardleigh Street Ashen Green- tree CourtFore wAustinord Friars Austin Friars Passage4 Austin Friars Square 1 AveIntro Mariaductio Lanen Axe Inn Back6 Alley Back of Golden2 Square Overvie wBalham Ball Court 10 Bank Bankend Wharf Bankside3 London to Barbicanday Barking Barkingside12 Barley Mow Passage4 Wh Barnardsat could Inn happe Barnehurstn: future s ceBarnesnarios Barnes18 Cray Barnet Barnet 5 GateResilie n Barnsburyce: how Lond o Bartholomewn needs to face Close24 Bartholomew Close 6 Bartholomew Strategic cha lle Lanenge s Bartholomew for London Lane 28 Bartholomew Passage Bartholomew Place Bartlett Court Basinghall Street Basinghall7 Pote Streetntial a re Bassishawas for coll Highwalkaboration Battersea30 New Town8 Wh aBatterseat would su Parkccess Bayswaterlook like? Bear Alley42 Bearbinder Lane Beaufort9 Next step Stairss Becontree46 Bedding- ton BeddingtonReferences Corner Bedford Park48 Beech Lane Beech StreetThe Lo nd Beehiveon Coll abPassageorativ e Bell Alley51 Bell Green Bell Inn Yard Bell Wharf Bell Wharf Lane Bell Yard Bellingham Belmont Belvedere Bengal Court Ben- net’s Hill Bermondsey Berry’s Green Bethnal Green Bevis Bexley Heath Billingsgate Dock Billingsgate Market Billiter Lane Billiter Square Billiter Street Birchin Lane Birchin Lane Bishop’s Court Bish- opsgate Bishopsgate Churchyard Bishopsgate Street Black Bull

Inn BlackCopyright Fen & Acknowledgements Black Friars Lane Black Marys Hole Black Swan Alley Blackfriars Blackfriars Court Blackfriars Passage Black- heath Blackheath Blackheath Park Blackwall Blackwall Blom- © 2008 Young Foundation and partners, all rights reserved. Design by Effusion. 3 Botany Bay Botolph Alley Botolph Lane Botolph Wharf Bounds field Street Blue Anchor Alley Bolt Court Borough Green Bouverie Street Bow Bow Bow Churchyard Bow Common Bow Creek Bow Lane Bow Lane Bow Lane (2) Brabant Court Brackley Street BreadTHE Street PROJECT Bream’s Buildings Brent Brent- ford The London Collaborative End Brick aims toCourt Brick Lane Bricklayers ArmsForewordincrease Bride the Court capacity Bride of London’s Lane Bridewell Place Bridgewa- ter Squarepublic sector Bridgewater to respond to the Street British Mu- seumkey Brittons strategic challenges Court facingBrixton the Broadcapital. Street These Avenue include meeting Broad the Street Place Brock- ley Brockwellneeds of a growing, Park increasingly Broken Wharf Broken Wharf Bromleydiverse byand transient Bow Bromleypopulation; by Bow BromleyAsextending Chairman Park prosperity of Brompton London while safe Brompton- But we are Bromptonnot complacent. Our vision Councils,guarding Icohesion am excited and by wellbeing, the is that the capital’s public services will Brondesburyopportunityand preparing for for us change to look driven at Parkcontinue Brook to take the Greenlead in innovation, Brooks Wharfwhatby carbon Broommay liereduction. ahead Hill for Bruce our Grove Brush- capitalFor more city, information to work collectively visit young - fairness, relevance, efficiency and to identify its future challenges, important that we continue to look Wharffoundation.org/london Lane Bullsaheadeffectiveness. Head – and Passageso, Tothis achieve report this, beginsBullsmoor it is the Burgonand to Street collaborate Burnt in tackling Buryprocess Court of identifying Bury some Street of the critical Bush fieldthem. Street Bucklersbury Budgechallenges Row that the Bullcapital might Stairs face Bull Hill Park Bush Lane Bush Laneover Bushey the next 15 Mead years. London’s public services are - berwellperforming well, and getting Camden The report Camden was commissioned Camden Townbetter. Camley By any measure,Street Natural Parkthrough Camomile Capital Ambition Street– London’s Can- BywardLondon’s Street local councils Caledonian stand Road Calthorpe Project Cam ningcomparison Town Cannon with any Street other part Cannon – which Street has produced its own ambitious Can - strategyImprovement for the and next Efficiency four years. Partnership Capital ons ofPark the country. Carey Lane CarlisleAmbition Avenue commissioned Carmelite the London Street CarterCollaborative Court – an independent Carter Lane Carthusian Street Castle Court consortium Castle –Street to not only Castle help us Tavern understand what London’s future Castle Yard Cathedral challengesPlace mightCatherine be, but also Wheelwhat we Al- ley Catherine Wheel Alley Cavendishmight need to do Courtto respond to Chadwell them. u Heath Chalk Farm Chalkstone Stairs Chancery Lane Change Alley Chapel End Charing Cross Charles Street Charlton Charring Cross Charterhouse Square Cheapside Chelsea Chelsea Chel- Tree Alley Cheshire Court Chick Lane Child’s seaHill4 Physic Garden Chipping Barnet Cherry GardenTHE StairsCOLL AB ChiswellOR CherryATIVE CITY The London Collaborative has studied My aspiration is that London will and synthesised a wide range of evidence continue to be a vibrant and successful and predictions to underpin this work. place, both as a great world city, and But importantly it has also supplemented through the individual communities that this with direct input from those make it up. To achieve that, London local delivering public services on the ground government needs to lead and shape the in London. debate with our public sector partners about how to ensure that we are alert, The report is designed to stimulate resilient and adaptable enough to tackle future thinking among all of us who the challenges which will inevitably care about London’s future and who come our way over the next 15 years. recognise the critical role of London’s The London Collaborative programme is public services in what that future might set to play a key part in helping us rise to bring. It is not a statement of policy – but them. the work it will give rise to will help all of us in London in thinking about what our future policies should be.

Over the coming months, the London Collaborative will be working with Councillor Merrick Cockell, London’s public services on this agenda. Chairman of ¢ It will do this through the vital networks has built up – many of whom have alreadyof officers contributed and other tostakeholders the thinking it summarised in this report. But these political contribution. I intend to take thechallenges challenges will raisedalso require to my colleaguesa major in London Councils to make sure that the local democratic voice is heard in these debates.

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Yard6 Dutchy Lane Dyers Buildings EagleTHE StreetCOLLABOR A EalingTIVE CITY But the continuation of London’s success Capital Ambition is aware of the scale cannot be taken for granted. Success has of the challenge that London faces, and recognises that to meet Londoners’ congestion to soaring house prices. And needs, boroughs and others have to brought its own problems – from traffic get better at planning for the future, downturn in the global economy and by directLondon threats would that be sharply range from affected pandemics by any innovation and at working together. This to terrorism. isat whyfacilitating Capital a Ambition flow of new commissioned ideas and work to create capacity across the public Other cities around the world are moving sector and purposeful collaboration to fast to improve their relative position – meet future challenges. The London with dramatic plans unfolding in cities Collaborative – a partnership between as diverse as Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Shanghai and Singapore. Others are Public Management and Common attempting to leapfrog to new ways of Purposethe Young – Foundation,was chosen tothe deliver Office thisfor running cities – like the eco-cities being programme. Here we present our work built around China. to date and proposed next steps.

The focus of this report is on London as a whole. But London is a very diverse city, with divergent patterns of growth and decline. In what follows we have tried to look both at the common patterns, but also at how these might unfold in very

have also attempted to situate London’s prospectsdifferent withinways across the broader the capital. context We not

and Europe. just of the South East, but also of the UK The London Collaborative This report launches the London

thinking about the key challenges for LondonCollaborative. and sets It reflects the scene our for analysis involving and stakeholders in discussions about the u

7 most productive areas for collaboration. a willingness to collaborate, and the We hope it will provoke reactions, debate potential to make a real impact. We will and ideas. take care to avoid choosing topics where there is already work in progress, for The primary aim of the London example through existing partnerships, professional networks, or the GLA. the ground, particularly on cross-cutting issuesCollaborative that are is of more strategic effective importance. action on However, to prepare the way for more May, ready for agreement with Capital Ambition.We aim to Viewshave these from areas stakeholders identified in consensus about priorities. Section 4 of on the most pressing and promising theeffective report action and two we backgroundare seeking papersto build a challenges to tackle would be valuable (available from www.youngfoundation. – please see the questions and contact org) therefore present future scenarios details at the end of the report. ¢ for London. These have drawn on a large number of forecasts, analyses and scenarios, as well as in-depth discussions

public sector. What we present are not predictions,with figures butat all tools levels for in thinking London’s about the future. We have tested the scenarios in workshop discussions and captured

them for the public sector. a range of implications that flow from The challenges and potential areas for collaboration in sections 6 and 7 of the report also draw on an evidence base that includes data from surveys of senior local government leaders, top concerns reported by Londoners and analysis of Local Area Agreement priorities. Again, they are presented for discussion rather

to select from this ‘long list’ of challenges andthan issues as a definitive those that list. we The want intention to is take forward. These will be issues on which there is a compelling case for pan-London or cross-borough action,

8 THE COLLABORATIVE CITY 9 Barnet East Bedfont East East EarlsHam EastCourt Harding Earls Court Street East Easling House East LaneActon Stairs East THE PROJECT EastburyThe London Manor Collaborative House aims to Eastcote Eden Park EastEdgeware2 Overview increasePassage theEdgware capacity East Sheenof Edgwarebury London’s Edmonton East Elbow Wickham Lane Eldonpublic Street sector Elephantto respond to & the Castle Elephant Stairs Court key strategic challenges facing the capital. These include meeting the ElmFleet needsPark Epping of aElmers growing, increasinglyEndEssex Elmstead Court Elsinge Stairs Green,Euston EnfieldEuston ElthamExchangediverse andAlley transient Execution Palace population; Emerson Dock Exeter Park ExchangeEnfield Entrance Fair Cross to Ourextending analysis soprosperity far shows thatwhile London’s safe- Behaving like a whole system: publicguarding sector cohesion faces three and linked wellbeing, London’s governance and its pattern Falconwoodchallenges:and preparing Fallow for change Corner driven Fannof public Street services Farnborough are complex and Far- Fairfieldringdonby carbon StreetPark, reduction. Croydon Farthing Fairlop Streetwill Falcon remain so. Court But Fenthat shouldFalcon Court not Court Fen- Sustaining dynamism: economic preclude the creation of capacity to think churchFor more Avenue information Fenchurch visit young - Buildingsahead collectively Fenchurch (an intelligence-led Place Fenchurchideasfoundation.org/london and money Street are behind Fenchurch London’s Streetapproach) Fetter and to respondLane asFetter a connected Lane Fieldsuccess.dynamism Lane The and Finch challenge the flow Lane is of to people, maintain Finch Lanesystem Finchley (with good communications, Fins- this dynamism while looking after the quick to mobilise resources) where it burypeople Finsbury who live and work Avenue in London, Finsbury and matters Circusmost. So far London Finsbury has tended Park Finsburycreating the Park places Fishand communities Street thatHill Fleet Lane Fleet Lane Fleet Placethey needFleet to thrive. Street Fleur de Lisorganisational Court boundaries. Foots DespiteCray Fore someto perform good worseexamples in fields collaboration that cut acrossis StreetFacing Fore the future Street depends Avenue on Forestnot yet Gate built into Forest our DNA. Yet Hill better Forest Hill resilience Forestdale and adaptive Fortis capacity Green: Fortycollaboration Hill acrossFoster sectors, Lane across Foster tiers there are good reasons to be optimistic of governance and across the city will be Laneabout Founders the prospects Courtfor continued Fountain vital Court if London Fountain is to meet persistent Stairs and Fre - derick’seconomic Place growth. ButFreepars forecasts have Alley newFreezywater challenges such as worklessnessFrench Ordi or - naryseldom Court been accurate Friar and Street they failed Friday to carbon Hill reduction. Friday u Street Friday predict London’s resurgence from the Streetearly Friern80s, or previous Barnet periods Fryingpan of decline. Alley Fulham Pal- ace London Fullwell needs to Crossimprove its resilience Furnival Street Furnivall Gardens – which is relevant Gants to everything Hill Garden from Court Garden Stairs Gardn- ers toLane multiple Garlick uses, to ensuring Hill that George Stairs George Yard George Yardinstitutionsensuring Gidea major are Park ablebuildings to respond Giltspurcan be quickly adapted Street Gladstone Park Glass- houseto shocks. Alley Globe Stairs Globe Town Goat Stairs Godding- ton Godliman Street Golden Lane Golden Lane Golden Square Goldsmith Street Goodmans Fields Goodmans Yard

10 THE COLLABORATIVE CITY Goose Alley Gophir Lane Goring Street Goswell Road London’s future success depends in We want to create the space for public other words on strategies that reinforce sector leaders to turn their attention to its current strengths; that address future challenges, and to explore how head on its greatest weaknesses; and we can act to build resilience, adaptive that improve its capacity to act. The capacity and new skills for managers diagram below depicts the challenge. in the process. The report starts with observations on the metropolis and its development in the recent past before turning to future prospects. ¢

The challenge for London

Sustain economic & Improve wellbeing cultural dynamism of people & place

The challenge for the London Collaborative: how to build...

Strategic Resilience Collaboration Capacity

...and for London to behave as a whole system

11 Gough Square Goulds Green Grace- church Street Graham Park Grand Junction Canal Grand Canal Grange Park Gravel Lane Grays Inn Grays THE PROJECT GreatThe Elbow London LaneCollaborative Great aims New to Street Great Queen Street InnGreat3 LondonLaneincrease St Helen’s Great the capacity Bear Greattoday of KeyLondon’s St ThomasGreat Bell Apostle Alley Great SwanDice Key Al- ley Greatpublic sector to respond Street to Greatthe Trinity Lane Great Winches- ter Streetkey strategic Green challenges Arbour facing Court the Green Dragon Court Green Parkcapital. Green“London These Street includegoes beyond Green meeting any boundary the Greenchurch or convention. It Lane contains every wish or needs ofword a growing, ever spoken, increasingly every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble Greenhill Greenlandstatement Stairs ever expressed. It is illimitable. Greenwich It is Infinite London.” Green- diverse and transient population; wich Park Greenwich PeninsulaPeter Ackroyd, Ecology London: The Park Biography, Gresham 2000 Streetextending Greyfriars prosperity Passage while safe - Greystoke Place Grocers Hall guarding cohesion and wellbeing, Grocers’and preparing Hall Court for change Grocers driven Hall Gardens Grosvenor Ca- nal GroveTbyhe carbon cit Park y’sreduction. Grovelandparadox eCourts Guildhall Guildhall Guild- hall Art Gallery Guildhall Buildings Guildhall Museum London’sFor more paradox information is that it continuesvisit young - These paradoxes can and do lead to Guildhalltofoundation.org/london be both Yardvery successful Guildhall and very Yard acuteEast tensions Gunners for local authorities Stairs and Gun - nersburyunsuccessful. It is the powerhouse Parkof Guttercommunities. Lane London Gwendwr is a magnet for Gar- den Hackney Hackneypeople but Hackney also a city which Wick in several Hadleyofthe child UK’s Hadley poverty. economic It is growthWood the centre but itHaggerston of is the also poor quality Hainault of life with Hale high housing End and Half Moonthe UK Court region with Ham the highest Ham levels Housetransportways Gardensoffers costs. many of its citizens a fairly also, as the capital, the potential target HammersmithofUK’s terrorism. arts and Its cultural population & Fulhamindustries growth but andHammersmith is and Fulham Ham- mersmithits economic Park growth Hammetthave been driven Street can sometimesHampstead seem to be Hampsteadat the expense by migration, yet some of that migration ofRapid Londoners economic themselves. and population u growth Heathis illegal and involves people Hill working Hampton Hampton Court Gardens without proper legal protections. It is a Haringeycity with a Harlesdenhuge environmental Harlington footprint “London Harmondsworth is a feral city…a shambolic, careless,Harold (and does not have the high densities sluttish hag… London could not give a damn. HanoverHill that Harold may Stairsbe necessary Park Harold for cities to Wood beHanworth ItHarp gets up Hare Alleyevery morning StreetHarp as itAlley went Harefield to bed.”Harp Lanetruly ecologically sustainable) Harrow but is also Harrow HillSimon Harrow Jenkins, Evening on Standard, the Hill Harrowa leader Place in showing Hart how cities Street can cut Hartshorn Alley Hatch28 January End 2008 Hat- ton carbon Havering emissions. Havering Havering atte Bower Hawley’s Corner Hayes Haymarket Hayne Street Hazelwood Head- stone Heath Park Heathrow Hen & Chicken Court Hen- don Heneage Lane Hermitage Hermitage Dock Hermit- High Barnet High High High Timber Street ageHigham12 Stairs Hill Herne Hill Highwood UnionTHE Canal COLLHillAB ORHill HestonATIV EEnd CITY The paradoxical nature of the city is industries, academic institutions and illustrated in the quotations scattered as a top tourist destination. Section 8 throughout this section. presents a number of comparative tables. Terms like ‘Ny-Lon-kong’ for the axis of London has always confounded expectations. Never more so than to describe networks that lubricate the over the last generation. In the early globalNew -London-Hong economy (Time, 17 Kong January are used2008). 1980s London looked to be in crisis. Some of London’s success was the were disappearing. Large areas of land result of a combination of external wereUnemployment becoming derelict.was high. The Industries developments and an element of riots erupted. London was losing out to cities in other parts of the world – from the continued rise of the English Los Angeles and Tokyo, to Frankfurt, languagegood luck: as financial the international deregulation, standard Barcelona and Sydney. communication tool and a national

“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens.” John Berger

Just three years before Big Bang helped economy experiencing the longest boom put London at the vanguard of a new in history. But Londoners and London form of global capitalism, the future of institutions have also been skilful in making the most of their good fortune. wouldthe city be looked the Long bleak. Good If weFriday are orto conjureMona This period of success has created its Lisaup images. from films of the time, they to rising house prices. Meanwhile Fast forward 25 years and London is someown problems old problems – from have traffic never congestion really seen as one of the top global cities, been resolved, like the persistent plugged into worldwide networks and worklessness of the 1980s, deprivation levels or fear of crime, and some newer various league tables that rank ‘global’ problems have worsened such as cities,flows ofLondon people, consistently money and vies ideas. with In the obesity. u New York for the top spot in terms of the “Perfect location.” location of multinational corporations, clusters of high-end services and creative Woody Allen

13 Londoners see the contrasts every day in a city that combines great wealth and poverty, and popular culture portrays Key facts about London both in the feelgood images of London today and in the grimmer accounts Dirty Pretty Things about illegal organ trading amongst asylum Economy and skills seekersof films suchor Eastern as Promises about the London was the sixth largest city economy in the world by estimated GDP in 2005, but should rise to fourth place TheRussian contradictions mafia. of success present a by 2020, overtaking Paris and Chicago number of key lines of enquiry: Angeles are expected to be ahead of  How will London accommodate (UN,London 2007). in 2020, Tokyo, but New London’s York and economy Los growth – will it be able to mobilise the resources needed for additional of these cities, driven in particular by infrastructure? is projected to grow faster than any services (PricewaterhouseCoopers,  To what extent is London’s economic strong2007). growth in business and financial success driven by the informal economy, low wages, and the return Out of 11 key European cities, Inner

for some? Stockholm, in terms of economic growth of Rachman-type housing conditions Londonwith the ranked main drivers second, being just behinddemographic  How should the tensions between change and the rapid expansion in global the interests of London and the interests of Londoners be financialThe average services London (LDA, borough 2005). economy reconciled? is almost twice the size of the average district in Great Britain (Local Futures Below we rehearse some key facts Group, 2007). But there is substantial variation: whilst all returning to these and other future fall in the top quartile by economic scale, inner boroughs such as the challenges.about London u as we find it today before City of , Camden, Tower Hamlets and have much larger “In anything except the most horrendous economies than other boroughs such circumstances, which we can all imagine as Bexley, Barking and Dagenham and but will hopefully never see, London Waltham Forest. u is certain to enjoy a future that is prosperous, diverse and as exciting as any urban society on earth.” , What is London, 2004

14 THE COLLABORATIVE CITY London boroughs is about average, with Thethe region skills and ranking qualifications fourth out profile of the of11 GLAAfrican figures Other, suggest and Indian) that between represent 2006 British regions. As with many of the andover 2026 55 percent just three of London’s ethnic groups overall (Black other indicators about London there is population growth (GLA, 2005). evidence of considerable geographical variation, or even division: with ’s households are smaller than west and outer south east boroughs the national average, comprising 2.38 having large shares of highly skilled workers, compared to parts of north and numbers of single young professionals people,and couples reflecting without its comparativelychildren (ONS, high pockets of low skills. (Local Futures 2002). eastGroup, London 2007). where there are significant 20 of the London boroughs rank among the 50 most deprived local authorities in on at least one summary Population, communities measure of the Index of Multiple and demographics Deprivation 2007. 4 of the 8 most deprived authorities in England are In 2006, the population of London was in London (Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Newham and Islington) (GOL, 2007). Statistics to be 7.51 million. GLA estimatedestimates ofby the the growth Office for in London’sNational London has the highest rate of child population between 2006 and 2026 poverty (after housing costs) compared range from an 11 to 15 percent increase to other regions. During 2003-06, two (GLA, 2007). The rise is mostly explained by natural change resulting from London lived under the poverty line - comparatively high numbers of births outover of 650,000 five children children. (41 Inpercent) , in over half of all children live in poverty. Trend data over the last 12 years show andeast lowLondon numbers and the of deaths.Thames Significantly Gateway that national improvements in child higher(51 percent rates ofof thegrowth total are between projected 2001 for poverty rates have not been evident in and 2016) (GLA, 2005). London where rates remain stubbornly high (GLA, 2007b). u London’s population is ageing, but Inthe common capital is with actually the rest very of young the UK, in comparison with other regions, with an average age of 36 in a typical London borough. (Local Futures Group, 2007).

15 Housing Health and wellbeing The number of households in London has steadily increased in the past century health of London’s residents across as average household size has declined. There are significant variations in the This trend is forecast to continue. If Chelsea has the highest life expectancy the population increases at the highest boroughs. For example, and end of the estimates, the number of whereas the average life expectancy in households will increase by 23 percent inNewham the whole is much of the lower UK at at 84.2 76.8 years years, by 2026. At the lowest estimate the making it one of the lowest in the increase in household numbers will be country (Local Futures Group, 2007). 17 percent (GLA, 2007). The most recent forecasting report from Average house prices in London are the London Public Health Observatory higher than anywhere else in England, suggests that, if current trends in with an average of £281,000 in 2006, coronary heart disease and cancer over twice the average price in the mortality for those under 75 continue, lowest cost region, the North East. inequalities in mortality between local authority areas will not be reduced by The 2004 Housing 2010 (LHO, 2004). London needs an extra 35,000 new There are particular challenges in Requirementshomes a year for Study the identifiednext ten years. that Most people from diverse backgrounds and housing to tackle the backlog of housing meetingshortages the of specificskilled social needs care of older workers ofneed. this Over requirement 42 percent is forof theaffordable social discouraged by London’s higher living housing needed is homes with four or costs and low pay (GLA, 2006). more bedrooms. London’s children are currently more From April 2007 London boroughs have likely to be obese with 20 percent of been set new housing delivery targets, totalling 30,500 homes across the city. 2003. Forecasts predict that the number Much of this is planned for Thames childrenof obese boysin London in the classified city will rise as obese from in Gateway boroughs, but there is potential 2003 levels of 143,052 to 174,218 by for housing growth in other outer 2010. The number of obese girls in London boroughs. London is forecast to reduce by 2010, while in most other parts of the country levels are expected to rise (Zaninotto et al, 2006). ¢

16 THE COLLABORATIVE CITY 17 Hillside Hind Court Hither Green Hogarth Court Holborn Holborn Holborn Viaduct Holders Hill Holloway Holloway Court HomertonTHE PROJECT Honey lane Honey Lane Honey Lane MarketThe LondonHonor Collaborative Oak Hood aims Court to Hook Horni- man4 Whatincrease Gardens the capacitycould Horns of GreenLondon’s happen: Horse Ferry Horse Shoepublic Alley sector Stairs to respond Horselydown to the New Stairs Horselydown Stairsfuturekey Horsendon strategic challenges scenarios Hill facing Hosier the Lane Hosier Lane Hospital Stairscapital. These include Hounslowmeeting the Huggin Court Hug- gin Hillneeds of Hungerford a growing, increasingly Market Hungerford Stairs Hutton Streetdiverse Hyde and transientPark population; Ickenham Idol Lane InnerTheextending Temple future prosperityof LondonLane while Inwoodmay wellsafe- Parkcities Ireland are doing, and Yard how they Iron are trying Wharf confoundguarding cohesionpredictions and again. wellbeing, to reinvent themselves in response to IrongateButand that preparing Stairs does notfor Ironmonger meanchange that driven Lanethe bigIronmonger forces of the 21st century,Lane from Island Gardensweby shouldcarbon Isle reduction.not of look Dogs ahead. Isle We of Dogscontinued Isle globalisation of Dogs to higher Canal costs Isle of - carbon. worthneedFor more to Islington be information attuned Islingtonto risksvisit young and - Ivy Lane James Street Jewry probabilities, and prepared to Streetfoundation.org/london John Carpenter Street JohnsonsWe have looked Court at Dubai’s Jubilee enormous Gar- deal with a range of possible investment to become a global hub futures. for air travel, tourism and business services; at Shanghai’s attempts to densTo Kenleyhelp in this process, Kennet we examined Wharf Lanebecome a truly world city, Kenningtonwhich will forces, drivers and trends likely to impact Kensal Greenhow Kensal some of Europe’s Rise cities Kensal – such Town Kensington Kensington Kensingtonasbe Stockholmexemplified & Chelsea and in itsCopenhagen 2010 Expo;Kensington – athave - Gardenssixon Londonscenarios. Kentish and The its factorspublic Town serviceswe examined Kentishin five, established Town themselves Kenton at the Kenwoodcutting andten and which fifteen are exploredyears time in andthe scenarios,developed edge of growth industries; at how New Keringtowninclude: demographic change; economy Kew York Gardens has bounced Kewback from Palace shocks as Kid brookeand skills; Kilburn housing and Kilburn infrastructure; King Edwarddiverse as bankruptcy Street Kingand terrorism; Edwards climate change and the environment; and how Berlin has remade itself as Stairstechnological King innovation; Street lifestyles King and William one of Street Europe’s great Kinghorn cities, a centre Street Kingsbehaviours; Arms social Stairs cohesion/discord; Kings Armsfor Yard business as King’s well as creativity. Bench All of Walk Kingsand Crosshealth and Kings wellbeing. Cross To shape ourKing’s Stairs Gardens Kingsbury thinking we have looked not only at to London – but London can learn a lot Kingscotethe many studies Street of future Kingsland trends and Kingslandfromthese their cities sense have Kingston ofdifferent ambition characteristics and Kingston their KingstonLadywellpossibilities upon but also Thamesat what Lambeth other world Knightrider willingness Lambeth to Court think Horseferry many Knightriderdecades into Lam - Streetbeth Stairs Lambs Conduit Lad LambsLanethe Ladbroke future. Conduit u PassageEstate Gardens Lamor- bey Park Langthorn Court Larkhall Park Lau- rence Pountney Hill Laurence Pountney Lane Lawrence Lane Leadenhall Leadenhall Court Leadenhall Street Leather Lane

Leathersellers18 Hall LeicesterTHE COLLSquareABORATI LessVE CITY- Six scenarios: from In brief, the scenarios are: ‘full speed ahead’ to ‘off the rails’ 1. Full speed ahead: super global city The scenarios outline a range of possible In this scenario success breeds success futures. They serve to surface key and London is characterised by high strategic challenges and choices. We population growth, a prevailing social have tested them in workshops and have attitude of ‘tolerant coexistence’ and a found they help public sector leaders to very strong economy (ie one with growth think beyond their organisations’ current in output and employment exceeding the time horizons and preoccupations. The most optimistic of current predictions). scenarios are not ends in themselves but a set of tools, which can be used in in London’s transport infrastructure further discussions, locally and as part of enablesSignificant continuing and continuing population investment and the London Collaborative’s future work. workforce mobility. Private and third They are captured in full in a background sector providers are prominent in the report on future scenarios and an provision of services that were once the evidence review (available on request or responsibility of public sector bodies. at www.youngfoundation.org). setback: in the longer run the world Any US slowdown is a temporary

Challenges,economy and issues the andEU continueopportunities: to grow.

 How does London handle rapid growth – funding infrastructure, coping with pressures on planning and land, skills shortages and the impact of overheating?

 How does the role of the public sector change if service delivery is increasingly dominated by the private and third sectors?

 How do policy makers cope with an extremely mobile and changing population? u

19  How does London relate to its hinterland – as the wider South East becomes ever more clearly a single economic region?

2. Hitting the buffers: London falling apart This scenario explores the impact on London of a sustained economic downturn. It includes increasing out migration but steady population growth due to a higher than expected birth rate. These trends combine with others to create a prevailing social climate of fear, suspicion and competition between communities. The capital loses out to international competitors and ceases to be a destination of choice for economic migrants, let alone tourists. The poorest 3. Steady ahead: growing people live increasingly beyond the outwards, growing margins of formal society: in worsening greener health and housing conditions that In this scenario London is characterised by population growth in the middle providers. band of current predictions, a prevailing reflect the declining capacity of public social attitude of ‘tolerant coexistence’ Challenges, issues and opportunities: and medium economic growth (ie with growth in output and employment in line  How to protect Londoners from the with current long-term predictions). The last 15 years have seen a shift of people, growth? money and power from the centre to the worst effects of slow or negative  How to deal with chronic health, , and from there down to local employment and crime problems wards and communities. This has had which are likely to be even more severe – but with fewer resources? of securing consistently high standards ofmany public positive services benefits. in this The situation challenge is,  How to respond to severe however, a real one. In this scenario community tensions, including the sustainability and the environment rise of the far right? have continued their steady rise up

20 THE COLLABORATIVE CITY the political and personal agendas, u elsewhere in the world – putting a regulations to transport policy. spotlightconflicts –on some spatial fuelled segregation by conflicts and influencing everything from building community relations. Challenges, issues and opportunities:  Balancing community-led decision 6. Brakes on: London in the making with maintaining standards slow lane

 In this scenario, London adapts more home working happily to slower growth. It chooses to The impact of a major increase in adopt a slower pace of life; becomes an  What part public services should exemplar of the greening of the economy, play in facilitating environmental with more localised work and living, the change. rise of neighbourhood energy systems, and a marked turn away from the Three further scenarios are arguably less intensive competition and work ethic of likely but are worth considering because falling population and global businesses transform London’s outlook. potentiallythe 1980s-2000s. leaving It the will city. have u to adjust to they build on specific events which could 4. Knocked off course: shocks to the system

Here, London in 2023 is recovering from a number of disasters over the past three years including a year of sustained rain, thousandswith flooding of Londoners.that left infrastructure Conditions in someruined areas and affectedremain extremely the lives poor,of with challenges are coping with crisis and reconstruction.major health and crime problems. The

5. Off the rails: divided city shaped by divisions and community In a fifth scenario, London’s future is

21 What do the The diagram below shows our rough assessment of the relative probability scenarios tell us? of the scenarios within our 15 year Our analysis suggests that currently timeframe and a spectrum of public predicted trends for steady economic sector responses. growth and continued dynamism of London are reasonable. There are no unpredictable the future is likely to be. This makes the ‘steady ahead’ scenario WeExploring turn to scenarios the question confirms of preparation how in 3strong the most signs probable, of a major with shift all of the direction. caveats the next section. ¢ that should accompany any forecast or scenario. We believe there is good reason to be optimistic about London’s prospects, even though this scenario still means that the capital needs to work hard to improve infrastructure, to bring down carbon emissions, to raise the skill levels of many Londoners and to deal with a range of other challenges.

Likely Steady ahead Consider carefully in Growing outwards, planning growing greener Less certain

Full speed ahead Hitting the buffers Population and Slowdown in economy grow fast UK economy

Uncertain Knocked off course Off the rails Brakes on Shocks to the Social cohesion Slower growth more Be system breaks down sustainability prepared and resilient

TERRORIST ECONOMIC RIOT ATTACK COLLAPSE

22 THE COLLABORATIVE CITY 23 ness Heath Lime Street Passage Limeburner Lane Limehouse Lime- house Limehouse Br. Dock Limehouse Dock Lincolns Inn Lincoln’sTHE PROJECTInn Fields Lindsey Street Lisson Green Lisson The London Collaborative aims to Bush5 increase Lane the Little capacity College of London’s Lane Little Dukes Place little GroveEastcheappublic Little sector Little Bearto respond Elbow Key to the LittleLane BritainLittle Heath Little Little Britain Holland Little Houseneedskey Little strategic Ilford challengesto face Little facing New up the Street to uncertainty Little Somerset Street Littlecapital. These include Little meeting Trinity the Lane Liver- poolResilience:needs Street of a growing, increasingly Streethow London Lombard Court Lombarddiverse Laneand transient Lombard population; Street Lombard Street London LondonTheextending lessons Bridge prosperity of the London past while decade’s safe Bridge- a focus London on resilience will Fields be key factors London attemptsguarding tocohesion forecast and the wellbeing, future in the capital’s future success. Today, Streetofand London Londonpreparing are forthat Wall change we cannotLondon driven Wallwe are Buildings aware of fast-changing London trends inWet - landalwaysby Centre carbon rely reduction. on Long predictions. Acre Long Lane Long Lane Longford Studies often failed to anticipate such as recent Polish migrants beginning LonglandsFor more informationLothbury visit Lovat young Lane- topopulation return Love as flows the Lane Polish that are economy Lower hard to picks capture Clap up. - ton with foundation.org/londonLower accuracy Edmonton the most Lower Feltham Lower Place Lower Sydenham AsLower we have discussed,Thames our Street best guess Lowas - have shaped the contemporary to what the future holds is that current er Watergatesignificantcity. For example, developments the economic Broadway that trends Ludgate will continue, Circus but we know Ludgate that Hill upturnLudgate of the Hill 1980s Ludgate was not Squarethe next few years couldLyle also Park bring aLyons Quayforeseen Magpie in the Alley early yearsMagpie of Yardnumber Maida of possible Vale (if not Maiden probable) Lane that decade, and documents cataclysmic events that could have a even from the late 1990s fundamental impact on London. This Manorrarely Park predicted Mansell the extent Street of uncertainty Mansion faces Housethe public sector Mansion with London’s population growth and a dilemma: how to balance planning for MaidenheadHouse Place InnMariners Maitland Stairs Park Marka managed, Malden Lane predictable Mark Malden future Lane based Rushett Mar- tin Laneinternational migration. Maryleboneon what weMason’s know, against Avenue preparing Ma- sons Stairs Maswell Park Mayesbrookfor the possibility of a number ofMaypole The level of uncertainty that makes diverse scenarios which could range McDermott Park Middlefrom Street a sharp breakdown Middle in communityWatergate Middlesexbe increasing, Passage driven by the Middlesexcomplex solidarityStreet to economicMile End collapse. Mile u End Children’sinteractionforecasting Parkofdifficult the many Milfordat any divergent time may Lane forces now Milk Street Mill Dock and drivers at work. This points to the Millconclusion Point thatMillbank adaptive capacity Stairs and MillwallResilie Millwallnce Stairs Milton Court Milton Street Mincing Lane Miniver Place Mitre Court Mitre Passage Mitre Square Mitre Street Moat Mount Monkwell Square Monument Street Moor - gate24 Place Mornington Crescent! Morris’sTHE COLLABOR ACauseTIVE CITY- Lane Moor Place Moorgate Moor In science, and particularly the science homes to meet modern lifestyles, or of ecological systems, resilience refers thirties’ semis that, because of the way to the ability of a system to respond they are designed, are easy to extend to shocks. In psychology, too, it refers outwards or upwards. The lessons to the capacity of people to cope with stress and catastrophe. This strength is applicable not only to buildings like something which London’s institutions schoolshere are and about other flexibility public buildingsof structure, need to develop if they are to deal with but also to the internal structures and the uncertainties we face. workings of agencies.

London boroughs deal with unexpected Londoners themselves can sometimes be exemplars of resilience: the ‘spirit of ’ was rediscovered in the aftermath orevents extreme all the weather. time, from They local also fires routinely and of the 7/7 bombings in 2005. The Prime accidents, to outbreaks of seasonal flu Minister of the time praised the people of terrorist threat or acts of war. The sort of London for their ‘stoicism and resilience’. resilienceplan for major that boroughsemergencies, need be to this tackle the future falls midway between these, building on existing capacities to deal Adaptive capacity with the unexpected and learning from highly structured emergency planning For organisations, dealing with a crisis exercises. in collaboration with people who Planning for risks and emergencies aremeans not working usual partners. differently, It also possibly means that informal networks between whereas the sort of resilience and organisations, based on personal peer- adaptivefocuses on capacity high profile needed sudden on an shocks, ongoing to-peer contacts rather than formal basis has to become core to the day-to- arrangements, will become increasingly day working and strategic planning of important. To do this they need to the organisation. develop an adaptive capacity that enables them to change the way they do The types of buildings that have proven things without derailing their routine to be most resilient are those that operations. They also need to be able can change use over time: industrial to spot issues emerging, to have good warehouses of the 19th century that foresight and intelligence, and to work together with other agencies facing the Georgian townhouses that once housed same issues, both to share intelligence familiesare today’s and offices servants and and , are now either responses. u and strategy, and to develop joint split into flats or reconfigured as family

25 The sorts of London-wide issues that to evolve to generate innovation and threaten the future – pandemic, riot, recession or drought but also intractable worklessness, an infrastructure outpaced informationflexibility, learning into the from development agencies’ ownof by growth – will be shared across sharedstaff and strategic service policy. users, and feeding that London boroughs, and the solution to tackling them must therefore be a product of shared planning and will require far greater alignment of collaboration. institutionalImplementation structures, of effective skills, strategies funding and accountability with the key tasks. London’s public sector will need to To do this London’s public sector will need to become more than the sum of how the city works as a complex system become more effective at understanding London’s public sector will need to learn than static territorial boundaries and toits workparts. better And to with do this the mostworld effectively class isolatedof flows andpolicy feedback areas. This loops will rather demand institutions – the universities, think more emphasis on a whole systems tanks and specialist experts – which way of thinking – particularly in the London is so rich in. critical areas around population change and economic dynamism – to drive the development of whole systems ways of London will rely on the development of acting. goodResilience shared and intelligence, adaptive capacity analysis in and strategic challenge between boroughs Challenges such as climate change, and the rest of London’s public sector; worklessness and social cohesion are and secondly on the development of good networks and contacts that can be overlapping causes that can play out in mobilised when challenges emerge. difficult because they have multiple, time. This ‘requires a very particular London needs to behave more as a kindvery differentof agility thatways is in about people’s creating lives over virtual, intelligent and adaptive system shorter cycles of experimentation, even while the complex structures and execution and evaluation to allow inbuilt tensions of London’s governance policy makers and practitioners to and public sector remain. If this is to be learn from their own work’ (Demos, a key strand of the work of the London Agile Government, 2007). The current Collaborative after April, then the emphasis on service improvement – programme will need to: which has clearly improved the standard and outcomes of London’s public sector  embed our shared understanding over the past decade – needs therefore of London’s future challenges u

26 THE COLLABORATIVE CITY within public sector agencies. Even if some details are contested, a shared framework and language will underpin better dialogue and discussion

 develop the formal relationships between boroughs and other agencies that will enable them to share plans and an understanding of the future

 nurture leadership within boroughs and between boroughs that appreciates the value of strategic collaboration, and that values the strengths of informal relationships

within authorities and between and networks between¢ officers

different agencies.

27 way Moules Orchard Mount Pleasant Mount Street Garden Mumford Court Muscovy Street Museum of Garden History MuswellTHE HillPROJECT Myatt’s Fields Park Nash New Add- ingtonThe NewLondon Barnet Collaborative New aims Beckenham to New Brentford New Bridge6 Strategicincrease Street the capacity New challenges Broadof London’s Street New for Change London New Charl- ton publicNew sector Court to respond New toCrane the Court New Cross Newkey Cross strategic Gate challenges New facing Eltham the New Exchange New Fetter Lanecapital. New These Gravel include Lane meeting New the London Street needs of a growing, increasingly Newdiverse Years and Green transient Newbury population; Park Newbury Street New- castleTheextending Close challenges prosperity Newcastle presented while here safeCourt- Newgate Market Newdrawguarding River on the Newcohesion development Southgate and wellbeing, of New or Streetshort-term ratherNew than Street longer- Square Newgatescenariosand preparing Street and fourfor Newgate change workshops driven Street termSome Newham challenges, of these sources andNewington of reflect course current public New - ingtonwhichby carbon explored Newlands reduction. them from Newlands the perceptions, Park, Barkingthe analysis underpinning Newman’s CourtperspectiveFor Nicholas more information of housing, Lane visit Nicholas climate young - Lane Nicholas Passage Nine change, demographic change Elmsfoundation.org/london Nine Nobleofthe perspectives. scenarios Street and Nevertheless,Noel the Strategy Park there Unit Norbi audit - and young people. We have also isand a notableLAA decisions convergence are different on headline types ton drawnNorbury on other North evidence: Acton North Cheam North End North Feltham North Finchleychallenges North to focus on. Harrow North  A survey of what those in local government see as current and What needs to be - en Northfuture Sheen challenges North Wembleyadd Northresse Woolwichd: outcome Northolts  Maintaining economic growth HillingdonNorthumberland The top prioritiesNorth chosen Hyde Alley for the North Northumberland Kensington North Heath Ockend North- wood LAAs Northwood currently being negotiatedHills Norwich in  Street Norwood Nor- London London’s population Norwood New TownManaging Norwood the growth Park and flow Notting of Hill  Nun The longer-term Court ambitionsNunhead Oakleigh Ensuring Park infrastructure Oakwood like housing, Oat Lane articulated Ockendon in the Improvement and Oldtransport, Bargehouse waste and education Stairs keep Old Bexley Old Brentford Old Broadpace Street with growth Old Change Old  EfficiencyA recent Prime Strategy Minister’s for London Strategy  Equipping Londoners with skills, Coulsden Old Ford Oldtackling Gravel long-term Lane worklessness Old Jewry and Old Mitre Court Old Oakother types Common of exclusion Old Palace Unit audit of long-term challenges Yard Old facingSurvey Seacoal the data UK about topLane concerns One of Tree Managing Hill Orpingtoncohesion and the social OsterleyLondoners. Oval Court Paddingtonconsequences of immigration and Pag- eantmaster Court Palace Yard (New)the diversity Palace of nationality, Yard ethnicity, Stairs Pall Mall Pancras Laneclass, race Panton and faith u Street Para- dise Park, Holloway Paris Garden Stairs Park Hill, Croydon

Parliament28 Stairs Parsons StairsTHE COLL PartABORATI ofVE CITtheY Parkers Lane Parliament Hill  and taking care of the environment in London may need to change are: andReducing the public London’s realm carbon more generallyfootprint Key challenges for how the public sector  Ensuring clarity in governance  Addressing long-term public health and addressing gaps in who is issues, the implication of an ageing responsible for what and growing population and its distribution, and inequalities  Improving collaboration across existing structures and sectors, and  building resilience and adaptive crime, gangs and fear of crime. capacity as well as collaborative Reducing high-impact, organised In summary, the key challenge is over national and other agendas. to sustain London’s economic and intelligence and collective influence cultural dynamism while improving the  Collaboration on services and wellbeing of people and place. policy agendas where this adds value, for example on shared How the public sector services, economies of scale, market needs to work: the means management, workforce strategies. to respond This set of future challenges for the The public sector faces distinct public sector can be summed up as building strategic capacity, resilience the future. Here too there is a degree of and collaborative solutions. ¢ convergencechallenges in betweenrelation tothe its conclusions fitness for from the scenarios work (see above) and views from senior managers in local government and others who recognise tackled (‘we need to breathe light and energythat significant into meeting problems these are challenges’). not being turning to innovation enter the stage asEfficiency, potential doing drivers more for with collaboration. less and The complexity of governance creates a crowded territory of overlapping agencies on the one hand while leaving issues on the other. no one responsible for significant policy

29 Square Paternoster Steps Pauls Wharf Peckham Temple Paternoster Row Paternoster PengeTHE PROJECT Pentonville Pepper Alley Stairs Pepys RyeStreet PeckhamThe LondonPerivale CollaborativeRye Common aims toPelican Court Stairs Peters Pemberton Hill Peter Row- sham7 Potentialincrease Petticoat the capacity Lane areasof London’s Petts for Wood Petty France Philpot Lanepublic Phoenix sector to respond Court to Phoenixthe Garden Pickle- herringcollaborationkey strategic Stairs challenges Pield Heath facing the Pierhead Lock Pilgrim Street Pimlicocapital. These include meeting Pinner the Green Pinnerwood Park Plaistowneeds of a growing, Playhouse increasingly Yard Pleydell Court Pleydell Streetdiverse Plough and transient Court population; Plough Place Plumtree CourtInextending this Ponders section prosperity we End turn while Pope’s to areas safe- HeadSus Alleytai n Poplaring Poplar Pop- ofguarding potential cohesion collaboration, and wellbeing, presentedand preparing under for thechange headings driven London’s dynamism Parkofby Potter’s sustaining carbon reduction. Fields dynamism Close and Poultryand impro v Prattsing Bottom pinsPratt’simproving ForCourt Bottommore information Portsokenwellbeing, Preston andvisit Street youngPriest’s- Postw Courtell Officeb ei Primroseng Court of people Postman’s Hill Prim - rosebuilding foundation.org/london Hill strategic Primrose capacity Street and Princesand pl Stairsace Printer Street Prioryresilience. Court The Puddle two elements Dock of protecting Puddle economic Dock growth and dynamism as well as tackling PumpThe Court‘long list’ of Purley areas for potential Putneysome of Common the current and Putney potentially Heath collaboration covered here is diverse and accelerating problems for Londoners Qualitydesigned Court to be tested Queen against questions Street Queencould serve Streetas a basic visionPlace of success Queen such as what is possible, what is urgent, for the public sector in London. What can PutneyVictoriaand what Heath Street is most fruitful QueenburyPutney to explore Vale Pymmeswe do between Park usQueenhithe to get Quaggy there? u RiverDock Queenhithefurther. We will Stairs only be able Queenhithe to take a Stairs Queen’s Gardens limited number of issues forward. - Queens Wharf Queen’s Wood Radnor Gardens Ragged Staff Court LNR Railway Place Rainham Rain ham Ram Alley Ramsden Randall’s Rents Raphael Park Ratcliff Court Stairs Ratcliff Highway Red Cross Garden Red Lion Court Redbridge Regents Canal Regents Park Regent’s Park Regents Park Richmond Richmond Richmond Hill- Rising Sun Court Riverwalk Gardens Robin Court Rolls Buildings Rom ford Rood Lane Rose Alley Rose and Rose Tavern30 Rosehill Rosemary Lane RotherhitheTHE COLL RotherhitheABORATIVE CITY Rowley Green Royal Exchange Royal Exchange Avenue Royal Exchange Buildings Economic growth and area; recognising competition competitiveness boroughs on economic development There seems to be consensus across (egand attracting different businesspositions investment,between government, the main political parties knowledge workers, growth sectors) and business on the need to maintain the  Meeting the skills gap: attracting climate for continued growth of London. and competing for highly skilled people globally, but also addressing is perhaps more contested. Is London the exclusion of many Londoners, moreThe role resilient the financial to economic sector shocks plays inthan this including young people, from London’s economy through lack of is the impact of the credit crunch and the other cities and regions in the UK? What  Informalqualifications economy: what would be DoesNorthern the analogy Rock collapse? of the ‘Wimbledon the impact if the blind eye turned to the informal economy were to change? Or if a backlash against the sectoreffect’ isstill highly hold, successful where London’s even without open super-rich in London were to force strongand relatively national unregulated champions? financial Does it some political intervention? matter if London’s skills gap continues to be met by migrants rather than London’s  Geographic difference: What are residents? the shifting centres of gravity for the economy in London, in terms of While the mayor plays a key role, sectors and geography? Is the tilting including through the London to the east accelerating? What about Development Agency, and the boroughs the balance between London and the also increasingly focus on economic and regeneration strategies, no agency has  PuttingSouth-’s and UK? case: is London an overview on skills and labour market governance equipped to make issues in the capital. the case for more control over its resources and for more devolution? u

Key Economicchallenges development:and issues: a London- wide strategy for keeping London a world class successful city; highlighting how local authorities, individually and together, need to develop their role in this

31 Understanding and pushed out to greater London and managing London’s the South East? Is there a trend to population flows numbers having second homes? The city’s population is growing faster a ‘time-share’ city with significant  How to adapt to and manage churn: particularly at times of nature and distribution of the population than any other major European city. The challenges for education outcomes migrants with diverse levels of skills andreducing skills. resources, and with specific and– shifting needs, flows a population of UK and both international ageing and getting younger, smaller households,  Different needs and uses of the lifestyle patterns of moving to the centre city: mapping the needs of young, or the outer boroughs, churn of people old, poorer people, residents of between boroughs – puts considerable inner, outer and greater London and strain on housing, transport and other commuters from the South East. u public services and in certain areas on community cohesion.

Key Keepingquestions track and issues of people include: and patterns: developing timely and reliable demographic data, making the case for resource

segmenting migration patterns toallocation better understand to reflect actual impact numbers, on economy, cohesion and housing; understanding the factors that

example Poles and other Eastern Europeans.influence groups of migrants for

 Understanding the shifting balance between areas: will the balance between the cost of living and quality of life drive more people out of London? Will inner London increasingly have only very rich or very poor people, with the middle

32 THE COLLABORATIVE CITY Maintaining and decision making and attempts to improving infrastructure balance the focus on east London?

The infrastructure of the city is critical Meeting housing needs and skills that propel its economic Decline in household size as well as andto sustaining cultural dynamism. the flows of Yet people, transport, goods population growth are driving the land use and core public services have demand for housing and prices. In struggled to keep up with the pace of addition to increasing supply, there is growth. In the medium term new growth for those on average earnings, improve environmentala need to build sustainabilitymore affordable and homesraise hinges on successful delivery of major the amount and quality of social housing Frominfrastructure a resilience projects perspective in east theLondon. for those who cannot compete in the fragmentation of how transport and housing market. utilities are managed raises concerns about the city’s capacity to absorb and respond to shocks. Key challenges include:

Futuresustainability proofing and new carbon build reduction and Key Thamesquestions Gateway and challenges and the include: Olympics: reasonsretrofitting as well existing as maintaining stock for housing quality (see below)

formanagement London and of themajor scale infrastructure of these  twoprojects means has risks been are a historic high. problem  AffordableAssessing the housing capacity for and key workers  Brokering discussions on where distribution of future growth decisions should lie: how can  Assessing scope for family housing in London’s governance arrangements inner London for infrastructure such as water supply, sewerage and waste be  Closing the skills gap in sustainable improved; developing pan-London design approaches where they are needed?  Finding better ways of meeting the  Transport: how do we get better at complex needs of vulnerable people mapping transport needs across the including those that are homeless u capital and identifying the links to sustainable communities, housing and employment; more transparent

33  Breaking the link between worklessness and tenure in London’s social housing Retrofitting  Finding new ways to work with the London’s housing private sector. u stock - an example of interconnected challenges

Many of the issues and challenges outlined here overlap, and it is the interconnections that can be most challenging to the public sector. An

housing stock, ie equipping it to meet newillustration standards is the for retrofitting reducing carbon of London’s emissions and other environmental

Thisobjectives. would make a real impact on the city’s carbon footprint (new housing will only ever add a small percentage).

ways to ‘future proof’ buildings by Retrofitting could incorporate other in vulnerable areas, and simple adaptationsdesigning in forflood older protection people (themeasures lifetime homes ideas) and possible other ‘smart’ or technology-driven measures.

This is an area where landlords are

andstruggling, partnership in spite solutions of efforts are ofgoing agencies to belike needed BRE and to thebring Housing down costsCorporation, and to spread expertise. If foreseen and decided u

34 THE COLLABORATIVE CITY Environment and carbon reduction a decade ago, these adaptations to create Is London governance up to tackling have been part of the decent homes climate change in the way the Clean Air standardresilient, morefor public flexible housing. housing could Act and Victorian public health reforms responded to earlier challenges? There Such a programme would be incredibly seems to be consensus that action needs to be on a pan-London level. A key not clear where in London governance it question arising from the scenarios is wouldambitious even and be possiblyconsidered. unaffordable. If the will and It is whether there will be tensions between resources were found, there would be growth and reducing our consumption of energy, or whether carbon reduction skills, but also immense opportunities and green technology will in fact be a toimmediate develop theproblems rising environmentalin finding the right potential driver for growth. technology sector. There would also be a need for a mix of incentives and regulation to drive this, to persuade home owners to take this up and Key issues and questions include: possibly to move people for periods of stock (see above) and future proof How to retrofit existing housing time. public buildings  Developing a London wide-strategy including standards, intelligent regulation, a mix of incentives and costs, attempts to persuade and work with people and businesses to change behaviour and consumption.

Quality of life and wellbeing Public space, urban design, the cultural

its cleanliness or noise levels as well as offer, the look and feel of the city and u everyone although these factors can vary acrosstransport London. and other infrastructure affect

u

At the same time, there is a significant

35 minority of Londoners who are  Attention to urban design and marginalised through deprivation livability and perhaps public or unemployment, and often leading debates on how London should parallel lives to those at the heart of develop. London’s buzz. The challenge facing London in the future is for it to become a Community cohesion more liveable city for all its residents and London prides itself on few overt needs of those left behind. tensions between communities over workers, while attending to the specific recent decades and during a period of high immigration. Is cohesion a real strength of the capital or a myth hiding Key Addressingchallenges and inequalities: questions include:poor a more fragile level of tolerance? Other health, concentrations of deprivation questions are how increasing tensions and worklessness, poverty, greater in the welfare state such as rationing of exposure to crime, potentially more old people living in isolation lotteries will play out in London? How eligibility, perceived injustices, postcode  Tackling long-term worklessness: with change? What is the state of the are different groups of Londoners coping DWP; sharing models of initiatives communities they live in? thatbuilding work effective in practice; partnerships drawing with together holistic solutions at a local and sub-regional level, linking  Dealing with London-wide as employment opportunities to skills, Key challenges and issues include: well as more local cohesion: good housing, transport and cohesion practice; sharing and building agendas knowledge – do we need to learn  Health: building on examples of afresh every time a new community good local cooperation through arrives? Have we not got better at LAAs to engage the London SHA integrating new arrivals? to collaborate with boroughs  The role of councils in creating cohesion: working with democratic control over health communities and civil society; more effectively; argue for more at the local level; outcomes of the leadership; inspiration; being in Darzi review including the focus touch, listening and attending to on prevention, concentration of rising tensions; aiming for mixed population growth through high communities, neighbourhoods and birth rates in east London, balancing schools; building social capital. u local and regional provision for best quality provision

36 THE COLLABORATIVE CITY  Going beyond community leaders: Crime and fear of crime can we overcome the limitations of only engaging with recognised Crime continues to rank among top leaders and be more directly in touch concerns for Londoners in surveys, with communities themselves? even though there are some signs that fear is beginning to fall. Partnership working on crime and with the police is rated as good in most areas and at pan-London level as well. Youth violence and gangs are a current concern with

and the solutions across the spectrum of intelligence,high-profile casesenforcement, of teenage diversion murders, and engagement of young people are likely to

Anti-social behaviour also continues to berequire a challenge. joint efforts over the long term.

 Pan-London approaches: ensuring cooperation on youth crime across all boroughs and agencies involved; good practice; avoiding displacing problems to other areas.

Building strategic capacity and resilience across the public sector Governance across the public sector There are natural tensions and competition between tiers of government. After years of having no city-wide government, London now has

u a mayor with significant powers and a record of flagship innovations like the

37 congestion charge. Between the mayor same time, issues such as transport, and the boroughs, the capital still does not control all its resources and cannot that London operates as one system. housing or flows of people illustrate  Better relationships: identify infrastructure. London’s regional and localeasily governments mobilise sufficient are supplemented investment in by a myriad of other bodies which ofcommon government objectives and betweenand improve sectors. regulate, coordinate or fund public relationships between different tiers services but structures, accountability  Engaging key partners: work to and responsibility for many key issues bring on board partners who have so remain unclear.

far found it difficult to collaborate on  Localismbroader objectives, and neighbourhoods: such as DWP. Key Accountabilityquestions and issues for population- include: develop an approach to localism level outcomes: who decides what the population-level outcomes of London’s communities, which are for London should be (ie factors oftenthat fits less the coherent specific than circumstances those in that go beyond the managerial other parts of the country. u responsibility of any one agency, like health or skills)? What organisation or partnership is accountable for orchestrating agencies to achieve outcomes?

 Consensus on what is pan-London and local: analysing and attempting to reach consensus on the spatial levels at which current problems and future challenges can be tackled including areas like waste, or transport.

 Working with differentiation and interdependency: London is not a single place and we need to understand how challenges play

sub-regions, across inner and central Londonout differently and suburban across areas;boroughs at the or

38 THE COLLABORATIVE CITY The role of local London (inner, outer boroughs), government information, drawing on and What does the future hold for boroughs bringingdifferent together life chances London’s etc; sharing rich themselves, their current structures and provision of universities, think tanks functions? Will they thrive in new roles and other institutions. or wither under pressures for larger  Space to think: creating or smaller units of local government opportunities to bring people in London? Change in structures and together to look at the future and at responsibilities has been a feature of the pan-London issues, and to develop London governance landscape (most new approaches; explore how a recently the establishment of the GLA) longer term vision for London could and more may be on the cards. London’s be developed and get buy-in from councils will need resilience in this across the public sector; creating regard as well as other uncertainties. a climate for innovation across the public sector; consider the future A key challenge is: shape of local government and the public sector. Solving problems regardless of structures: learning how to collaborate  Influencing external drivers and across current and any future structures policy agenda: collectively decide on to meet the needs of Londoners. responses to developments outside the control of London’s public sector, Collaboration: thinking together and creating and policy direction across London whereways to appropriate. influence national agenda, strategic capacity  Looking at risk: Collaboration in this area could be mechanisms to identify and manage risks across a complex effective system for the public sector in London. described as a collective R&D capacity (beyond civil contingency planning). u

Key Developingchallenges and and issues accessing include: intelligence: to understand, research and pooling efforts key trends, horizon scanning; map London’s flows of people,

understanding differences within

39 Collaboration: doing  Developing new tools: new things together interventions or measures in housing; intelligent regulation Partnership working, largely at borough approaches that set standards across and at sub-regional levels, has become a the capital where appropriate and mainstay of the public sector. Issues such work alongside attempts to change as worklessness, housing and carbon behaviour (eg. making it socially reduction all require collaboration to unacceptable to fail to recycle as well be scaled up to the pan-London level. as paying a cost). Collaboration is equally driven by the  Modelling innovation: sponsoring, need to contain costs and improve implementing and scaling up services. innovations across sectors; sharing risks; further uses of technology.

 Learning how to influence Key Exploringchallenges sharedand issues services include: and behaviours: achieving better economies of scale: clarifying outcomes on health, crime, carbon rationales for shared services reduction depends on changing and scoping most suitable areas behaviours or ‘co-creating’ outcomes with Londoners; good practice on care; fostering and adoption; involving users in service design and (possibly backoffice; adult social pensions; waste collection; delivery; learning to work alongside communication strategies). people including young people. ¢  Market management: moving from delivery to strategic market management, building the capacity of local authorities to manage markets and think more radically and creatively about procurement partnerships both between boroughs and with suppliers.

 Workforce management: recruitment and retention, shared approaches, less competition for rare talent, development of the right sorts of managers for the future?

40 THE COLLABORATIVE CITY 41 RuskinCourt Salisbury Park Russia Square Court Salisbury Russia Stairs Row Salter’s Hall Saffron Court GreenTHE Saffron PROJECT Hill Saint Pancras Salisbury Court Salisbury SavageThe GardensLondon Collaborative aims Yard to Coal Wharf SandersteadSeacoal8 Whatincrease Lane the capacitySandsSeethingwould ofEnd London’s Lane Sandy’ssuccess Seldon Row lookSaracen’s Selsdonlike? Head Yard Ser- public sector to respond to the Dockkey Shadwell strategic challenges Dock Stairs facing the Shafts Court Sheer Lane Shep- jeant’sherdscapital. Bush Inn These Sermon Shepherd’s include Lane meeting Bush the Sherborne Shadwell Lane Ship Shadwell Tavern Shipneeds Tavern of a growing,Passage increasingly Shirley Shoe Lane Shoe Lane Shoot- ers Hilldiverse Shooters and transient Hill population; Shoreditch Park Short- landsLondonextending is alreadyprosperity Silk a Streetvery while safe - There are also Single measures Street which try Sipson to get successfulguarding cohesion city by many and wellbeing, a sense of readiness for the future, for Sir Johnstandards.and preparing McDougal But for what change would Gardens driven Sladeexample: Green successby carbon look reduction. like in 10 to 20  School performance Somersyears?For more Town information Somerset visit young House- Somerset Yard South Ac- Smithfieldton foundation.org/london South Smithfield Street South Snaresbrook Bromley Patent production Snow South and innovation Hill Croydon performance:  Speed of adaptation (eg to climate There are many ways of judging cities’ change)  Standard economic measures, both - Southbeth South absoluteHackney andNorwood relative South SouthHampstead Norwood South Country Harefield Park  Measures South of wellbeing, Hornchurch again both SouthResilience Kensington against shocks South Lam absolute and relative And for all of these there are distributional South Woodford as well as absolute PlaceSouthampton  SouthMeasures ofPlace quality Fields Mewsof life South measuresRuislip House– covering South how Southampton Street varied South performance is (whether by measures  Assessments of cities’ position of social class, age, gender or other Spameasures Park such Spencer as psychological House stress). Spi - information, people Street on Southborough networks of flows – of money, Southend London has much to learn from Southgate other Albans Street St Alphage Highwalkcities and theSt LondonAndrew Collaborative Street has St talfieldsAndrew’s SpringHill St GroveBartholomews Springfurther Park Hospital work St underway Albans St Benet’s to examine Court how Place St London compares internationally. u Avenue St Bride’s Passage St Clare Street St Clement’s StLane Botolph St Dunstan Row St inBotolph the West Street St Dunstan’sSt Bride Street Alley St St Bride’s Dun- stan’s Court St Dunstan’s Hill St George in the East St George’s Lane St Helen’s Place St Helier St James St James Park St James’s Market St James’s Park St James’s Passage St James’s Square St John Hampstead St Johns Wood St

42 THE COLLABORATIVE CITY John’s Wood St Katherine’s Row St Lukes St Magnus the city’ it is in competition with a large fastest-growing large cities will be from By 2020 none of the projected top 30 they mature cities like Berlin and New emerging economy cities, for example number of different types of cities, be the major advanced economies, with and Mumbai, or emerging cities such as move into the global top 30 by this DubaiYork, transitional and Abu Dhabi. cities Of such course as Beijing we are pointMumbai, (PWC, Istanbul 2007). and Although Beijing Londonset to is also in a position to learn from them. u consistently classified as a leading ‘global TABLE 1 Global Cities Well rounded global cities Global niche cities - specialised global contributions i. Very large contribution: London and New i. Economic: Hong Kong, Singapore, and York. Smaller contribution and with cultural Tokyo bias: Los Angeles, Paris and San Francisco ii. Political and social: Brussels, Geneva, and ii. Incipient global cities: Amsterdam, Boston, Washington Chicago, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Toronto WORLD CITIES Subnet articulator cities Worldwide leading cities (ie important on some dimensions in regional international networks)

i. Cultural: Berlin, Copenhagen, Melbourne, i. Primarily economic global contributions: Munich, Oslo, Rome, Stockholm Political: Frankfurt, Miami, Munich, Osaka, Singapore, Bangkok, Beijing, Vienna Sydney, Zurich

ii. Social: Manila, Nairobi, Ottawa ii. Primarily non-economic global contributions: Abidjan, Addis Ababa, Atlanta, Basle, Barcelona, Cairo, Denver, Harare, Lyon, Manila, Mexico City, Mumbai, New Delhi, Shanghai globalisation (2004) Globalisation and World Cities (GaWC) Research Centre, Taxonomy of leading cities in

43 International models to assess whole Although less developed than other cities are receiving attention because approaches, cities are beginning they relate to this competition between to assess their capacity to face the world cities. Such high level indicators can also serve to spot important short- Cities assesses and compares 50 and longer-term trends for policy metropolitanfuture. The US areas consultancy against CEOfactors for such makers within cities and to be part of as: talent, innovation, connections and accountability to citizens. Two examples distinctiveness. ¢ of comparisons are given here.

Cities have been benchmarked against each other in term of liveability and

(see the example in Table 1 on the precedingwellbeing, page)economic and andaccording cultural to offerthe functional importance they have in various global networks (see Table 2). In existing international frameworks London consistently vies with New York

economic and cultural indicators. This offor course the top masks spot on uneven aggregate performance financial,

important over time. in specific areas that may become more Like other cities that rank highly as mature world cities London tends to have middle rankings when quality of life and liveability are the core focus. In

Liveability survey, London ranks 47th out ofthe 126 Economist cities. In Intelligence comparison Unit’s Vancouver Global ranks 1st, New York 51st and emerging

70th and 76th respectively. In the Mercer cities such as Beijing and Abu Dhabi rank London ranks 39th out of 51 cities, with Human Resources liveability survey,

New York trailing just behind at 45.

44 THE COLLABORATIVE CITY TABLE 2

New Los Hong London York Angeles Paris Kong World footprint* 99% 72% 85% 95% 73% Population 7.518 8.085 9.948 2.154 6.708 (million) Foreign – born 30.5% 37.0% 36.0% 14.4% 6.6% nationals inTernational 15.2 7.0 4.6 9.6 25.3 tourist arrivalS FT 500 22 22 6 22 7 headquarters – no. FT 500 6.1% 7.2% 0.7% 4.6% 1.5% headquarter % market capitalisation Financial 1 2 20 7 10 Volumes Global financial 1 2 - 11 3 centre index Universities 12 11 25 3 3 -number of faculties in top 100 Olympic Games 3 2 4 3 0 * World footprint is an aggregated measure of economic and inter city connectivity (including trade, information etc.)

Oxford Economic Forecasting, London’s place in the UK Economy, 2007-08

45 Martyr St Margarets St Margarets Close St Martin in the Fields St Martins Lane St Martin’s le Grand St Mary at Hill St Mary Axe St Mary Axe St Michael’s Alley St Mildred’s CourtTHE St PROJECTOlave’s Court St Pancras St Pauls Cathedral St PaulsThe Churchyard London Collaborative St Paul’s aims toChurchyard St Pauls Cray St 9 Nextincrease the steps capacity of London’s - in’s Lanepublic sector St. toJames’s respond toPark the St. John’s Churchyard St. Sav- Peter’siourskey Dock strategicAlley Staining Stchallenges Saviours Lane facing Dock the Stamford St Stephen’s Hill Stangate Row St SwithStairs Stanmorecapital. These Staple include Inn meeting Staple the Inn Buildings Star Alley Star Alleyneeds Stationers of a growing, Hall increasingly Court Steelyard Stairs Step- diverse and transient population; ney Stew Lane Still Stairs  inter-borough Stoke collaboration Newington is Selectiextendingng prosperity areas for while safe- Stonecoll Groveabor a Stonetion House Court Stonenecessary Stairsto achieve Stonebridgeresults guarding cohesion and wellbeing, StonecutterWeand will preparing work with Street for stakeholders change Stoney driven to select Lane borough Strand response Strand is not solely Strand determined by party political (The)whichby carbon Strand of these reduction. challenges on the are useful Green to Stratford Strawberry Hill explore further. There should perhaps imperatives and there are reasonable StrawberrybeFor a mix more of ‘quick information Hill wins’ and visitlonger- young -Streathamprospects ofCommon cross-borough Streath- am term Hillfoundation.org/london gains, Streatham of challenges which Park could Streathamagreement Vale tackle blockages and build on existing  there is agreement about what consensus, and of pan-London issues and success looks like and how it would Sun‘coalitions Court of Sunthe willing’ Street to address Sundridge more Surrey Stairs be measured Sudburyregional ones. Suffolk Themes chosenLane should Sugar be Bakers Court Summerstown Swanthose Stairs where: Swedeland Court Sydenham action by the London Sydenham Collaborative Hill would not duplicate or undermine  Sutcliffe there isPark pressure Sutton for action, Swallow because Streetthe actions Swan of another Alley agency Swan or Lane- dingtonthe issueTeddington poses particular problems Telegraph initiative.Hill Park Telegraph Hill, for London’s public services over the SyonChilds Park Hill Talbot Telegraph Court Hill, Tallis Lewisham WeStreet welcome Tanfieldviews Telegraph on these Court criteria Street for Ted Temple Temple Avenue Templeselection, Bar Templeas well as on Lanethe challenges Temple  timescalethere is pressure of the project for action because Stairs Thamesthe challenge demandsThames a specialist Barrier Park Thames Street Thames response collaboration. Please see the questions Tunnel The Arcadebelow.we identified Theu andHyde the possible The areas New for Ar- tillery thereGround are known The to be Oldimportant Change The Pageants The Temple Thievingchallenges, Lane but Thornton these are complex Heath Three and, as yet, future trends are not fully understood Throgmorton Street Tokenhouse Yard Tol- Cranesworth WharfTook’s ThreeCourt King’s Court Tooting Throgmorton Bec Tooting Avenue Bec Common Tooting Graveney Tooting Graveney Common Tottenham Tower Tower Hamlets Tower Hill - tors46 Bridge Trinity Square Trump StreetTHE TudorCOLLABOR ATI StreetVE CITY Tower Place Tower Royal Tower Stairs Tower Wharf Trai This report launches the London Collaborative to stakeholders. We hope it will provoke reactions, debate and ideas as the content of the programme and

Inareas particular, for collaboration we would arewelcome identified. your views on these questions:

 What are your views on current levels of collaboration across London’s public sector?

 Do the concepts of resilience to shocks and adaptive capacity (shared intelligence, quick responses) make sense? How can we develop them?

 What do you see as the three greatest future challenges for the capital?

 What are the three areas where collaboration is most needed and

could make a real difference? Any other views on our work to date or suggestions for the future are valuable as well (please contact us london@ youngfoundation.org. ¢

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49 THE COLLABORATIVE CITY The London Collaborative The London Collaborative is a partnership led by the Young Foundation, challenges facing London is at the heart ofActive the programme.collaboration We on will four turn or five to this key Management (OPM) and Common after the completion of phase 1. Purpose.in association with the Office for Public For further information on the The three organisations bring distinct London Collaborative programme strengths in social innovation, analysis and to give your views contact www. and research, and experience of youngfoundation.org/london developing and supporting leadership to telephone 020 8709 9035 the mix. All are close to local government and public service but not of it. All The two background reports on bring perspectives that look beyond scenarios and the evidence review are institutions and current systems, available on this site. be it ways of understanding real life or lessons from abroad. experience, views from different sectors

The Developkey objectives a shared are understanding to: of the medium- to long-term challenges London faces

 space, inspiration, knowledge, networksOffer London’s and ways public of workingsector leaders to address these

 Improve connections and relationships on London-wide issues.

The London Collaborative programme instance but with a built-in challenge to makeruns until strands March of the 2009 work in the sustainable first in the longer term.

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