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Mayor Launches Space Plan for London

LONDON-Almost one year to the day after he was elected, London Mayor Ken Livingstone has unveiled the first draft of his spatial development strategy, which will shape development in London over the next 20 years.

By Graham Parker | Updated on May 08, 2001

LONDON-Almost one year to the day after he was elected, London Mayor Ken Livingstone has unveiled the first draft of his spatial development strategy, which will shape development in London over the next 20 years. Livingstone wants to see 23,000 new homes built every year, many affordable homes for key workers. And he plans to relax restrictions on high-rise office developments.

Launching the draft, Livingstone said: ‘By 2016, London’s population could be as high as 8 million. In the past, when London’s population has been at that level, solutions have been sought outside London, through policies of dispersal to new towns. That is not an option today as the environmental consequences are no longer acceptable. It would require massive building on the Green Belt and result in greater increases in long journeys and commuting.

‘The alternative choice I have set out is for a pattern of sustainable growth to revitalise London. I believe that people like living in urban areas, close to the facilities and services they need. That is one of the reasons why house prices in Knightsbridge and Islington–some of the densest urban areas in London–are so high. We must create an urban renaissance in London by developing at higher densities, in more attractive urban environments.’

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