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• Waste management including collection, disposal and recycling;
• Fire and rescue;
• Emergency planning - co-ordinating responses from the emergency services to
disasters such as flooding;
• Roads, highways and transportation including the provision, management and
maintenance of roads;
• Ensuring local housing needs are met; and
• Environmental health including food safety and pollution control.
London’s local authorities have a key role as community leaders and service providers. Many
have already started to address climate change issues in their Unitary Development Plans as
well as in their community and Local Agenda 21 strategies. They have a key statutory role in
implementing strategies in a number of areas affected by climate change such as housing,
transport and the environment.
8.4.5 Thames Gateway London Partnership
Thames Gateway London Partnership is a sub-regional alliance of thirteen local authorities, five
universities, the Learning and Skills Council London East and the London Development
Agency working together with the private sector, local communities and strategic agencies to
deliver the economic, physical and social regeneration of the Thames Gateway in London. It is
Europe’s largest and most ambitious regeneration initiative and extends from Tower Bridge
eastwards to Thurrock and Dartford. They are involved in a number of developments relevant
to climate change including partnerships with the EA, GLA and Thames Estuary Partnership
including contributing to the ‘Planning for Flood Risk Management in the Thames Estuary’
project.
8.4.6 Thames Estuary Partnership
Thames Estuary Partnership (TEP) was formed to integrate the wide range of uses and interests
on the Thames Estuary. It has a mainly environmental focus and has produced the Management
Guidance for the Estuary which fulfils the role of the EA’s Local Environment Action Plan
(LEAP). It covers the Thames from Tower Bridge to Shoeburyness on the north side and Isle of
Grain on the south side. The Thames Estuary Research Forum is part of the TEP and seeks to
address the research priorities for the estuary such as biodiversity, fisheries, flood defence and
physical dynamics, recreation and access and water quality. The Thames Estuary Partnership is
working with the Environment Agency who have initiated the “Planning for Flood Risk
Management in the Thames Estuary” project. This is a partnership project involving a range of
organisations, developing a strategy for flood risk management in the Thames Estuary for the
next 100 years. The project covers the covers the tidal Thames and its natural floodplain from
Teddington in west London to Sheerness/Shoeburyness in the outer estuary.