Decision details

Making London a National Park City

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

This report seeks formal Endorsement of the campaign to make London the world’s first ‘National Park City’. The National Park City campaign is seeking the support of orgnaisations, individual wards and ward councillors across London to add weight to its campaign.

Reason for Urgency:

There is a set of shared values between the councils aims to be the most environmentally positive borough and the proposed National Park City initiative.

London can become a National Park City once the majority (328) of London’s 654 wards have declared their support. Currently 324 have already declared.

Decision:

1.    To endorse the campaign to make London the world’s first ‘National Park City’.

2.    To encourage all Hammersmith and Fulham councillors to declare their ward’s support for the scheme.

3.    To note that the process to declare support is straight forward and can be done via the following web site - http://www.nationalparkcity.london/ward_support

 

Report author: Nick Austin

Publication date: 07/03/2018

Date of decision: 05/03/2018

Decided at meeting: 05/03/2018 - Cabinet

Effective from: 12/03/2018

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