A Vision for the City

The City Vision 2050 project will analyse and assess the challenges and opportunities the City will face, and examine how the City can build on its strengths and to continue to deliver world class services up to in 2050.

The project will engage City businesses, City officials, livery companies, interest groups and residents. The knowledge, experience and differing perspectives these groups will bring to the table should enable a comprehensive resilience profile for 2050 to be built.

The project will focus on the five City Together themes, critical to a strong and able City in 2050;

• Competitive and promotes opportunity – focusing on the built environment, transport and energy infrastructure

• Supports our communities- looking at how changing demographics- particularly an aging population may impact on the City

• Protects, promotes and enhances our environment – focusing on sustainable consumption, water supply, localised flooding and air quality

• Vibrant and culturally rich – looking at cultural vibrancy, protection of heritage and business mix

• Safer and stronger – looking at resilience and how changing technologies may impact on the City.

The project will deliver a series of facilitated workshops based around these themes and how they may change the character or constrain the City in the future. These workshops will take place between February 2014 and June 2014.

This process will result in a published executive summary of findings, display materials and an internet-based detailed report. We will present these findings to the City Residents meeting which takes place on Monday 23 June 2014. The output from the programme will demonstrate the City’s leadership in this area and provide input into regional, national and international work.

As the City of London is a strategic asset of national importance, the development of a horizon scanning project examining resilience can make a valuable contribution to a vital debate at a local, regional, national and international level.