Vision
The City of London Corporation is the governing body of the Square Mile dedicated to a vibrant and thriving City, supporting a diverse and sustainable London within a globally-successful UK. The Corporate Plan 2018-23 (2MB) provides a framework for the delivery of these services. An Easy read version (2MB) of the Plan is also available.
Aims and priorities
Contribute to a flourishing society
- People are safe and feel safe.
- People enjoy good health and wellbeing.
- People have equal opportunities to enrich their lives and reach their full potential.
- Communities are cohesive and have the facilities they need.
Support a thriving economy
- Businesses are trusted and socially and environmentally responsible.
- We have the world's best legal framework and access to global markets.
- We are a global hub for innovation in finance and professional services, commerce and culture.
- We have access to skills and talent we need.
Shape outstanding environments
- We are digitally and physically well connected and responsive.
- We inspire enterprise, excellence, creativity and collaboration.
- We have clear air, land and water and a thriving sustainable natural environment.
- Our spaces are secure resilient and well maintained.
Our Corporate Plan is supported by a series of key strategies, plans and policies
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Air quality
- Aiming to reduce the impact of poor air quality on the health of City residents, workers and visitors, and seeking opportunities to influence air quality policy across London to secure lower levels of air pollution in the Square Mile
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Children and families
- Working to make the City a safer and stronger community: improving the health and wellbeing of both City resident and workers, supporting vulnerable people and ensuring every child can thrive and achieve their full potential
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Cultural strategy
- We want to seize a once in a generation opportunity to reposition the City as a world capital for commerce and culture, harnessing the power of arts, heritage, learning and libraries to make the Square Mile far more open, creative, resilient and entrepreneurial.
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Equality and Inclusion
- Our commitment to delivering excellent customer service and providing an inclusive, respectful and discrimination-free work environment
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Health and wellbeing
- We want to positively influence the health of everyone who lives and works in the City, enabling them to live healthily, preventing ill health developing, and promoting strong and empowered groups of individuals who are motivated to drive positive change within their communities and businesses
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Housing
- Setting our vision for housing, in the City and our estates in neighbouring areas, by increasing the supply and providing homes that are secure, can be economically heated, are free from damp and can be adapted to accommodate changing needs
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Licensing
- Considering applications for the sale and supply of alcohol, the provision of regulated entertainment and the provision of late night refreshment, with a view to promoting the licensing objectives
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Open Spaces
- Protecting and enhancing the gardens in the City by creating a network of high quality and inspiring open spaces which helps ensure an attractive, healthy, sustainable and socially cohesive place for all the City’s communities and visitors
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Planning
- Setting the vision for shaping the Square Mile in the future: find out what are the policies which guide planning decisions
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Policing
- The City of London Police Policing Plan 2017 - 2020