A great place to live

Vision

'A great place to live' reflects our continuing ambition to make Tower Hamlets a place where people are proud to live, work and study. Our vision is to achieve a borough where people live in quality affordable housing, located in clean and safe neighbourhoods served by well connected and easy to access services and community facilities. Underpinning this aspiration is a focus on sustainability.

Challenges and opportunities

The Partnership has made good progress in making Tower Hamlets a more sustainable borough. There still remains a number of key challenges to making the borough a better place to live, including: large and growing demand for affordable
housing, particularly social rented family housing; managing a housing stock that is predominantly flats and estates; lack of open space; and transport and connectivity.

To make Tower Hamlets a great place to live the Partnership will focus on achieving the following objectives:

• Objective 1: Providing quality affordable housing
• Objective 2: Improving and maintaining the quality of housing, including maximising energy efficiency
• Objective 3: Improving the public realm
• Objective 4: Improving transport links and connectivity
• Objective 5: Providing effective local services and facilities

In order to achieve our commitments to One Tower Hamlets we will:

• Focus on homelessness prevention and reducing and mitigating the effects of overcrowding
• Prevent and reduce fuel poverty for vulnerable groups
• Ensure that the local transport system makes the borough’s town centres and neighbourhoods more accessible for all local people

Strategies that will contribute to this theme:

• Local Development Framework
• Housing Strategy
• Decent Homes Programme
• Climate Change Strategy
• Fuel Poverty Strategy
• Public Realm Management Strategy
• Transport Strategy
• Leisure Strategy
• Conservation Strategy