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Town planning fosters the continued development of the City as the heart of the leading international financial and business centre, whilst at the same time improving living, working and travelling conditions, enhancing the City’s environment, and protecting its historic buildings and spaces.

The Department of Planning and Transportation administers the Town and Country Planning legislation within the City on behalf of the Common Council , and advises on the formulation, implementation and monitoring of planning policy and guidance.

The City of London's Committee Documents Database includes information about planning applications that are going to the next Planning & Transportation Committee (documents are normally available five days before the Committee). In order to view the papers you will need to specify "agendas" or "reports"; a date range which starts today and has no end date; and "Planning and Transportation Committee".  You can also view papers from the previous committees from 1998 by using the same links and specifying the date range.

Interactive City maps allow you to search planning, transportation and conservation information.

Supporting the neighbouring boroughs

The City of London's Economic Development Office has developed a Local Procurement Charter (570kb) and associated Guidance Note (1mb) calling on developers to source 10% of goods and services, relating to development, from the City and its neighbouring boroughs. The Local Procurement Charter seeks to encourage City developers and their contractors to source locally and drive the economies of local small to medium sized enterprises. This will in turn drive local employment levels within the seven surrounding boroughs, where up to 10% of the local population is unemployed.  This is in addition to the ‘City Procurement Project' , pursuant to which the City provides free support to City based business wishing to procure locally. It does this by signposting to local supplier databases, providing 1 to 1 advice and providing written guidance via its Local Purchasing Toolkit and other resources.

The City of London Corporation hopes that the aims of the Local Procurement Charter will be supported by planning agreements for new developments from autumn 2011.

Designing out crime

The design of a building affects the risk of attack. The City Police offers the services of an Crime Prevention Design Advisor to provide professional risk management advice, at the design stage, on all aspects of security of a development - working in close liaison with architects, developers and the City of London's planning officers.