HL1 — Inclusive buildings and spaces.

Buildings, open spaces and streets must meet the highest standards of accessibility and inclusive design, ensuring that the City of London is: 2. Inclusive, welcoming and safe for all, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. Major applications should develop and submit equality impact assessments, demonstrating how this will be achieved; 3. Convenient and welcoming with no disabling barriers, ensuring that everyone can experience independence without undue effort, separation or special treatment; 4. Responsive to the requirements of all users who visit, work or live in the City, whilst recognising that one solution might not work for all; 5. A place that promotes equity, diversity and social inclusion in the design and use of buildings and public spaces, including through the provision of spaces that are free to access. City Plan 2040 | Shaping the Future City fety Health, Inclusion & Saf Reason for the policy 3.2.0 An inclusive environment is one that recognises that everyone benefits from improved accessibility including disabled people, older people, families with children, carers, people with temporary medical conditions or impaired mobility and non-disabled people. The built environment needs to be safe, accessible and convenient to improve the quality of life for all City users. Despite progress in building a more accessible City, some people still experience considerable barriers to living independent and dignified lives as a result of the way the built environment is designed, built and managed. The outcome of embracing inclusive design should be a City where people want to live, work and visit and which feels open and welcoming to people from different backgrounds. 3.2.1 Under the public sector equality duty, local authorities are required to have regard to the objectives of eliminating discrimination, harassment and victimisation; to advance equality of opportunity between persons who share a relevant protected characteristic and those who do not; and foster good relations between persons who share a relevant protected characteristic and those who do not. City Plan 2040 | Shaping the Future City fety How the policy works 3.2.2 Developers will be required to submit Design and Access Statements which demonstrate a commitment to inclusive design and the promotion of equity, diversity and social inclusion. Applicants should engage with relevant user groups, including health and social care providers, at early stages to inform their approach. Such engagement should take place before the detailed design stage prior to submission of an application to ensure maximum effectiveness and inclusive design within the building and in the surrounding public realm. Design and Access Statements must include details both on how best practice standards have been complied with and how inclusion will be maintained and managed throughout the lifetime of the building. 3.2.3 Applicants should submit Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs) for major developments to ensure the needs of people belonging to groups with protected characteristics are met, and demonstrating how the development would promote equality, diversity and inclusion.

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