Integrated Impact Assessment Part 1 of the Culture Strategy (Culture Section of the Strategy) BOP Consulting December 2018
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__ Integrated Impact Assessment Part 1 of the Culture Strategy (Culture section of the strategy) BOP Consulting December 2018 1 Contents Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................................................... 3 1.1 Background ....................................................................................................... 3 1.2 Method ............................................................................................................. 3 1.3 Selected IIA Framework Objectives ....................................................................... 4 2. Culture Section Assessment ................................................................ 8 2.1 Health Impact Assessment ................................................................................... 8 2.1.1 Health and wellbeing impact of a greener cultural and creative sector.................... 8 2.1.2 Health and wellbeing impact of creative economy employment ............................. 9 2.1.3 Health and wellbeing impact of individuals having access to cultural infrastructure 12 2.1.4 Health and wellbeing impact of participating in communal cultural activities ....... 15 2.1.5 Health and wellbeing benefits of greater links between culture & health sectors ... 18 2.1.6 Overall ......................................................................................................... 18 2.2 Community Safety Impact Assessment ................................................................ 19 2.2.1 Community Safety impact of participating in the arts and culture ........................ 19 2.2.2 Overall ......................................................................................................... 20 2.3 Equalities Impact Assessment ............................................................................ 20 2.3.1 Love London ................................................................................................. 23 2.3.2 Creative Londoner ......................................................................................... 25 2.3.3 Culture and Good Growth ............................................................................... 26 2.3.4 World City ..................................................................................................... 28 2.3.5 Cumulative impact across all initiatives ............................................................. 30 2.3.6 Increasing the positive impact ......................................................................... 30 3. Next Steps ........................................................................................ 32 4. Appendix 1 ....................................................................................... 33 4.1 Scope of this impact assessment ........................................................................ 33 4.2 Health Impact Assessment ................................................................................. 33 4.3 Community Safety Impact Assessment ................................................................ 34 4.4 Equality Impact Assessment ............................................................................... 35 5. Appendix 2: Evidence base ................................................................ 37 5.1 Contextual baseline data: Culture ....................................................................... 37 2 1. Introduction 1.1 Background This impact assessment reviews the impacts of the Culture Strategy published in December 2018 (comprising one culture and one sport strategy). It should be read with those documents. The Culture Strategy sets out the Mayor’s vision, and the policies and proposals behind it, for culture and sport in the city. The culture section of the strategy covers four priorities: • Love London – more people experiencing and creating culture on their doorstep. • Culture and Good Growth - supporting, saving and sustaining cultural places and spaces. • Creative Londoners – investing in a diverse creative workforce for the future. • World City – a global creative powerhouse today and in the future. The Mayor’s existing legal powers and responsibilities in relation to the Culture Strategy are set out in sections 41, 42, 42B, 43, 376 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (GLA Act 1999). This version of the impact assessment has been updated to reflect revisions to the draft strategy and the feedback from the consultation which took place from 23 March – 19th June 2018. 1.2 Method This Integrated Impact Assessment (IIA) of the Culture Strategy (encompassing one culture and one sports strategy) is comprised of an Equality Impact Assessment, Health Impact Assessment and Community Safety Impact Assessment and due regard for sustainable development in the capital. The geographical scope of this Culture Strategy is Greater London. The GLA Act 1999 sets out the Mayor’s statutory responsibility to develop a Culture Strategy that contains policies relating to culture, media and sport. Due to the growth of the culture and sport policy areas within the GLA, in particular since the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the strategy is published in two parts. One part covering culture and the other sports. This Integrated Impact Assessment focusses on the culture section of the strategy referred to herein as the Culture Strategy. The Integrated Impact Assessment (IIA) must also review the Culture Strategy (encompassing one culture and one sports strategy) against the GLA’s overarching IIA Framework Objectives, which are broader. The inclusion of these additional Framework Objectives, for example objective three (Climate change mitigation) or twelve (Economic competitiveness and employment), means that the IIA process also addresses sustainability and to an extent climate change. These aspects of impact are however covered more fully by spatial planning strategies such as the current Supplementary Planning Guidance for Culture in the Night Time Economy. The GLA has a total of 24 overarching IIA Framework Objectives. The GLA IIA Guide (2009) suggests that as part of the scoping exercise preceding this draft report, the number of IIA objectives should be limited to 12-18. 3 This IIA will consider a total of 12 IIA Framework Objectives, selected as proportionate and relevant in consultation with GLA stakeholders. Three of these matches the three core parts of this IIA. The remaining nine have been grouped thematically under Equality, Health and/or Community Safety. The method for assessing the Equality impact of the Culture Strategy differs from the method for Health and Community Safety. The Equalities impact assessment looks at each of the four strands in turn, while the Health and Community Safety assessment looks at the level of policy actions, which are grouped into common themes. 1.3 Selected IIA Framework Objectives IIA objective Description In/out of scope Environment 1 Air Quality Reduce emissions and Culture: Out of scope of this IIA. concentrations of harmful Creative and cultural industries would atmospheric pollutants, support this via policies set out in the and reduce exposure, London Plan, Environment, Transport particularly in areas of and Economic Development poorest air quality Strategies. These programmes may be referenced in the Culture Strategy. 11. Historic Conserve and enhance Culture: Access to built heritage environment historic environment, relates to Equalities, and can have including that with positive health impacts. Also, GLA historical, architectural, Act outlines that Culture Strategy will archaeological and include policies related to supporting cultural value London’s Heritage, e.g. supporting diverse heritage. 3. Climate Help tackle climate Culture: GLA Act asks all strategies change change through reducing to consider this area, plus links to mitigation greenhouse gas Culture and Good Growth strand of emissions, towards zero Culture Strategy. carbon London by 2050 2.Climate Ensure London adapts change and becomes more adaptation resilient to impacts of Out of scope of this IIA: Generally, climate change and Creative and Cultural Industries extreme weather events would support this via policies set out in the London Plan, 5. Flood risk Manage the risk of Environment, Transport and flooding from all sources Economic Development Strategies. and improve the resilience of people and property to flooding 4 6. Geology and Conserve London’s soils geodiversity and protect soils from development and over intensive use 7. Materials and Reduce waste generated, waste use and value materials as long as possible, achieve high reuse/recycling rates 8. Noise and Minimise noise and Considered within objective 23 vibration vibration levels, minimise (Crime, safety and security). disruption, reduce inequalities in exposure 9. Water Protect and enhance Out of scope of this IIA: Creative and resources and London’s water bodies, Cultural Industries would not be quality ensuring sustainable involved beyond that of other water supply, drainage business covered by London Plan or and sewerage Economic Development Strategy. 10. Natural Protect, connect and Out of scope of this IIA: Creative and Capital, Natural enhance London’s Cultural Industries will support this Environment natural capital, deliver objective via the London Plan, net positive outcome for Environment, Transport and biodiversity Economic Development Strategies. Economic 12. Economic Maintain and strengthen Culture: Relates to health competitiveness London’s position as inequalities