London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority

Abbreviation	LFEPA
Predecessor	London Fire and Civil Defence Authority
Successor	London Fire Commissioner
Formation	3 July 2000
Founder	Greater London Authority Act 1999
Dissolved	1 April 2018
Type	Fire authority
Legal status	Functional body
Purpose	Make key decisions onLondon Fire Brigade strategy, policy and budget
Headquarters	London Fire Brigade
Location	Union Street, Southwark, SE1 0LL
Region served	London
Membership	17 appointed members
Chair	Val Shawcross Brian Coleman James Cleverly Gareth Bacon Fiona Twycross
Parent organisation	Greater London Authority
Website	www.london-fire.gov.uk/fireauthority.asp

TheLondon Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) was a functional body of theGreater London Authority (GLA) from 2000 to 2018. It was established with theGreater London Authority by theGreater London Authority Act 1999. It replaced theLondon Fire and Civil Defence Authority, on 3 July 2000. Its principal purpose was to be the strategic governance of theLondon Fire Brigade. The members of LFEPA were appointed annually by theMayor of London and were nominated from theLondon Assembly and theLondon borough councils. There were two direct mayoral appointments to the authority from 2008, following theGreater London Authority Act 2007. It was abolished in April 2018 and replaced with theLondon Fire Commissioner, following thePolicing and Crime Act 2017.

The London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority was created with theGreater London Authority, consisting of theMayor of London andLondon Assembly, as part of theGreater London Authority Act 1999. It replaced theLondon Fire and Civil Defence Authority, on 3 July 2000 as the governance of theLondon Fire Brigade.

In June 2007 the Labour Party mayor,Ken Livingstone, asked the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives to reconsider their nominations for members of the authority from the assembly and the borough councils.^[1] Livingstone said "It is unacceptable that when there are 1,861 councillors in London, of which 555 are women and 293 from black, Asian and ethnic minority groups, all seven Conservative nominees are white and include only one woman, and all three Liberal Democrat nominees are white men."^[2] A compromise was reached by 21 June 2007 whereby the mayor replaced one of the male Conservative assembly members,Bob Blackman, withAngie Bray and appointed the borough council nominations on a temporary basis until August.^[3] These appointments were extended to June 2008.

In January 2013 the authority was asked to approve a public consultation on the closure of 12 fire stations as part of the fifth London Safety Plan. The authority voted against any future consultation on station closures, appliance reductions or job losses.^[4] The Conservative Party mayor,Boris Johnson, then used his power to directed the authority to consult the public. In February, the authority voted to ignore the direction of the mayor.^[5] The Conservative Party formed a minority on the authority and were outvoted by the Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green Party members.^[6] Advice to the authority showed that it had no legal ability to ignore the mayor's instructions. The authority voted to follow the mayoral direction on 12 September 2013.^[7] 10 fire stations closed in January 2014.^[8]

The LFEPA was abolished in April 2018 and replaced with theLondon Fire Commissioner and the Fire, Resilience and Emergency Planning Committee, a new governance arrangement within the Greater London Authority.^[9]

The 17 members of LFEPA were appointed annually by the Mayor of London. From 2000 to 2008, nine were nominated by the London Assembly and eight by the London borough councils through their umbrella body theAssociation of London Government (renamed London Councils in 2006). This was amended by section 25 of theGreater London Authority Act 2007 which changed the composition to eight London Assembly nominations, seven from the London borough councils and two direct appointments by the mayor. The first appointments to the authority were made in June 2000.^[10][11]

Appointments to the authority each year were as follows:^{[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]}

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