Register now for the CPA’s largest free-to-attend member event of the year. The reception is an important point in the City Property’s Association calendar, marking the appointment of the new Chair for a two-year term and launching our renewed Business Priorities which will build on those in previous years (read here).
Supporting the City of London Corporation’s Destination City campaign is high among these, including the important role of culture and leisure in the ongoing transformation of the Square Mile.
Hosted by Landsec, the evening event will take place in the exquisite surroundings of the Grade II-listed Victorian Bath House (pictured above), which will be renovated and opened to the public as part of the 55-56 Old Broad Street development in Bishopsgate.
Date: Tuesday 30 April
Time: 6.00pm - 8.00pm
Venue: The Victorian Bath House, 7-8 Bishopsgate, Churchyard, London EC2M 3TJ
Following our recent CPA event Policy for a Future City where 200 CPA members and stakeholders heard directly from the City of London Corporation's Shravan Joshi MBE (Chairman of Planning & Transportation) and Rob McNicol (Assistant Director, Planning Policy & Strategy) on emerging policies to support growth and sustainability in the Square Mile, further details of the City Plan 2040 and Planning for Sustainability Supplementary Planning Document(SPD) have now been released.
We will be reviewing the policy proposals in detail and responding on behalf of CPA members. If you have any questions about, or suggestions for, the association’s responses please contact andrea.williams@cwpa.org.uk.
City of London Corporation’s Local Plan approved for consultation
The City Plan 2040 has now been approved by the Court of Common Council and will be published for public consultation in the coming months. The Plan will set the strategic growth of the Square Mile for the next 25 years and aims to:
Power a growing, vibrant and competitive economy, with over 1.2m sqm of additional office floorspace delivered by 2040;
Transform the Square Mile into a seven-day-a-week cultural and leisure destination;
Ensure the City is a highly sustainable place to do business, with a net zero Square Mile by 2040.
Shravan Joshi MBEsaid: “The City of today has enormous strengths but, like all successful places, it needs to adapt, to change and to grow. The City Plan 2040 will help to shape the built environment in ways that rise to the challenges of our time while making the most of the many strengths of the Square Mile.”
Have your say on the Planning for Sustainability SPD
The City Corporation will be launching its draft SPD consultation on Monday 18 March for a period of two months. The authority is hosting two public consultation events, details below.
In-person consultation event at the Guildhall: Tuesday 19 March (6pm to 7.30pm)
Virtual consultation event via Microsoft Teams: Wednesday 20 March (9am to 10:30am)
The draft guidance will be published in full next week but previously announced themes of the SPD, which were agreed by members include: a focus on retrofit and re-use, energy use and ‘whole life’ carbon emissions, circular economy principles in construction and operation, climate change resilience and biodiversity and urban greening.
Other City Corporation updates
Square Mile heat map illustrates huge scale of construction
There is roughly 9mill sq ft of commercial floorspace being delivered over the next several years, equivalent to the floorspace of around 10 ‘Cheesegrater’ buildings, or 18 ‘Gherkins’, according to a heat map released by the City Corporation. Read more here.
Funding awarded to digitise planning system
The authority has won two separate Government funding schemes which will help the officers adopt more modern and accessible practices for the planning system, aimed at improving the speed and efficiency of processing planning applications. Read more here.
Salisbury Square Scheme presses on
The Planning and Transportation Committee has approved the use of Section 203 statutory override powers to block the threat of legal action from rights of light objectors so that the £300m new courts and police complex can continue. Read more here (£).
New operational base for City of London Police
The Planning Applications Sub-Committee has approved an application for the local police force's new eastern base. The development site includes parts of the Middlesex Street Estate. Read more here.
Fridays in the City
On the back of TfL’s three-month trial of lower off-peak fares on Fridays, the City Corporation has launched ‘Top Friday things to do’ to showcase the wide array of experiences on offer in the Square Mile. Read more here.
Member event
Join us at UKREiiF for an evening drinks reception celebrating the role of cities in driving good growth and prosperity. This year's reception will focus on the integral role our cities have in driving innovation and success across the country. We will be announcing the keynote speakers, which includes a senior City Corporation spokesperson.
This reception is held in partnership with the Institute of Directors (IoD) Property & Built Environment Group and Sheffield Property Association.
The venue is outside of UKREiiF’s secure zone so a delegate pass isn’t required to attend.
Podcast: Shaping London – The Women Who Define Our Spaces
To mark International Women’s Day last week, London Property Alliance (the joint name for CPA and its sister organisation Westminster Property Association) produced a podcast exploring the vital role that women play in central London’s property sector and how women are shaping our city.
Featuring Gudrun Andrews (the City Corporation's recently appointed Head of Planning Policy), CPA Board member Deborah Saunt (academic & Founding Director, DSDHA) and CPA NextGen member Niamh Sutherland (Principal Engineer, Momentum Transport Consultancy), amongst others, they discuss gender inclusive design and placemaking, and what a more diverse industry could mean for London's future.
Every Tuesday and Thursday in March, The City Belonging Project is offering limited edition, free guided walks to tell the stories of women through the ages in the City of London. In tours led by the City of London Guides and in partnership with the City Corporation, the tour will uncover some of the lives and work of women in the Square Mile over the last 2,000 years.
"I always say to my planning officers: remember... these [developers] are our clients, these are the people who are investing, taking the risk investing in our city. And we have to make it work for them."
In a Financial Times article published last month, Chris Hayward (the City Corporation's Policy & Resources Chairman) discusses the authority's flexible approach to attracting big companies to the City of London. Read more here.(£)
The City Corporation is hosting an event to launch its Heritage Building Retrofit Toolkit and discuss the challenges and opportunities of adapting heritage buildings as part of its Climate Action Strategy.
Future of London is a non-for-profit organisation company developing a more inclusive built environment through knowledge, networks and leadership.
Through its Emerging Talent Programme, Future of London is looking for companies which could offer paid work experience to ethnically diverse talent for a period of six to nine months. Please contact elaine@futureoflondon.org.uk to find out more and register your interest.
Co-founded by CPA and the City of London Corporation and delivered in partnership with NLA, our One City platform has grown to be London's largest place-based social media platform with over 100,000 Instagram followers.
Explore One City's guide to the Square Mile to find out more about the best pop ups, new openings and gigs in the City of London. Find out more here. Visit the account on Instagram here.
Member resources
Planning news
Both CPA and WPA members have access to our comprehensive database of all major decisions from central London's major planning committees. These can be viewed on our Planning News page.
For more details on all of the property news stories in the central London boroughs over the last seven days please visit the news section of the London Planningwebsite.
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