Environmental Strategy Review - London Mayor - 2000-2001

Client:	Greater London Authority		Project period:	2000 - 2001
Project:	A Review of Cross-Cutting Themes		Contract value:	c£25,000

Services provided

Temple carried out a review of the Mayor’s Strategies in order to assist the Environmental Strategies Investigative Committee in ensuring consistency between six environmental strategies developed by the Mayor which ultimately were there to inform the Transport Strategy. The six strategies reviewed were air quality, bio-diversity, spatial development, waste, energy and noise.  The work included briefing officers and a pair wise comparison of the strategies in order to determine any cross-cutting themes, inconsistencies and/or major shortcomings. A ranking was used to prioritise the observations, notably:

• Major – likely to result in a high risk of the strategy failing to deliver;
• Moderate – likely to result in some risk of the strategy failing to deliver its overall objectives;
• Minor – likely to result in a low risk of the strategy delivering some part of its overall objectives.

The report also highlighted opportunities that had been missed in the strategies as presented. The findings of the study were reported to the GLA Investigative Committee and a number of the environmental strategy documents were revised as a result.

Benefits

Delivery of a more coherent set of environmental strategies which consequently helped the GLA to respond to TfL and ultimately provided a more robust environmental framework for the transport strategy.

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