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Housing and Planning
London Assembly Annual Report for 2011-12
8 May, 2012
Our annual report sets out the work of the Assembly over the year to April 2012.
The report details how we've looked at the actions of the Mayor and his advisers, and the finances and performance of City Hall and London's transport, police, fire and regeneration agencies.
We have summarised our work under the following headings:
Service charges in London
1 March, 2012 - 09:51
This report sets out a number of actions that would make the present service charges regime that more than half a million leaseholders in the capital are subject to operate more equitably.
Highly charged, by Steve O’Connell AM on behalf of the Assembly’s Planning and Housing Committee, draws on a evidence from key stakeholders along with submissions from leaseholders themselves.
Neighbourhood planning in London
23 February, 2012 - 09:24
This report by our Planning and Housing Committee captures the challenges involved in making neighbourhood plans a reality in London, and sets down markers to light the way.
The Government wants the Localism Act to give people genuine power at a local level to shape how their neighbourhoods develop, beyond just responding to consultations on planning applications.
The Committee supports this intention, but believes the Mayor and boroughs need to make space in London’s existing – and unique - planning regime if the plans are to have a realistic shot at success.
Bleak Houses: Improving London’s private rented housing
16 December, 2011 - 09:28
Our report sets out a range of measures aimed at improving conditions for the one in four Londoners who live in the private rented sector.
Our Planning and Housing Committee found that about a third of the private rented sector in London – around 280,000 homes - fails to meet the “decent homes” standard used in the social rented sector, and one in three private landlords is considered to be “rogue”, leaving tenants at the mercy of poor conditions or sudden eviction.
Mayor’s housing proposals
2 November, 2011
Enhanced housing and planning powers, and control over new budgets and land assets, give the Mayor a unique opportunity to deliver more affordable homes, and the Committee urges him to make the most of it.
The Committee supports the Mayor’s proposals to address overcrowded housing – which reflect the Committee’s own work on overcrowding - and his plans to ensure new housing developments contain a good housing mix to reduce concentrations of particular tenures.
The Mayor's role in economic development
20 October, 2011 - 09:16
‘The Mayor’s role in economic development’, by our Economy, Culture and Sport Committee, calls on the Mayor to publish detailed plans that reflect developments since the publication of his Economic Development Strategy in May last year, including:
Implications of the Affordable Rent Model in London
8 July, 2011
This report sets out a number of issues relating to implementing the Affordable Rent Model in London. The new model gives housing associations the flexibility to raise rents for new tenants to provide funding for new affordable homes now that government grant has been reduced.
Our Planning and Housing Committee found that raising enough income through higher rents to build new affordable homes and setting rents at levels people can actually afford will be particularly difficult in London, where rents and need are already so high.
London Assembly Annual Report for 2010-11
2 June, 2011 - 11:06
Our annual report sets out the work of the Assembly over the year to April 2011 in a number of key areas.
The report details how we've looked at the actions of the Mayor and his advisers, and the finances and performance of City Hall and London's transport, police, fire and regeneration agencies.
We've also summarised our work on the priorities Londoners identified in the Greater London Authority's Annual London Survey:
Public life in private hands
26 May, 2011 - 09:33
Our Planning and Housing Committee calls for changes to the planning system to manage the creeping trend towards private control of public space – which can lead to excessive restrictions or exclusion.
Public life in private hands looks at the different ways the public realm - including squares, parks and thoroughfares - is managed. It identifies a number of concerns relating to the shift in the ownership and management of public spaces from local authorities to developers, and recommends solutions.
Assembly response to Mayoral Development Corporation consultation
26 April, 2011 - 11:19
London Assembly response to the Mayor's consultation on the establishment of a Mayoral Development Corporation to administer the Olympic Park after the 2012 Games.
