• Reference: 2025/1955
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Is the Mayor considering safeguarding land within the London Plan to support new grid infrastructure such as substations and battery storage needed for the city's net zero energy transition?

• Reference: 2025/1954
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Given rising demand for large-scale data centres, how is the Mayor working to ensure these developments are appropriately sited and do not displace strategic industrial land or housing allocations?

• Reference: 2025/1953
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

What assessment has the Mayor made of the impact that electricity connection delays and capacity constraints are having specifically on the delivery of affordable housing across London?

• Reference: 2025/1952
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

How is the Mayor encouraging and facilitating high-density vertical mixed-use developments (for example, co-locating industrial, residential, and logistics uses) to optimise land use in constrained urban areas?

• Reference: 2025/1951
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

In the context of increased fast-tracked development, what assurances will the Mayor seek to ensure that developers deliver social infrastructure, affordable housing, and community benefits in new schemes?

• Reference: 2025/1950
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

How will the Mayor determine which policies in the current London Plan can be removed due to duplication with national regulations?

• Reference: 2025/1949
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Given the consultation’s suggestion that boroughs are facing challenges in identifying areas suitable for tall buildings, what steps is the Mayor taking to coordinate a more consistent London-wide approach to tall building clusters and height thresholds?

• Reference: 2025/1948
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

What consultation has the Mayor undertaken on expanding or removing the 50-unit threshold for Build to Rent schemes, and how could this change affect planning outcomes in London boroughs?

• Reference: 2025/1947
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

What assessment has the Mayor made of the current resourcing levels in planning departments across London boroughs, and how will City Hall support councils to scale capacity in response to expected increases in planning applications?

• Reference: 2025/1946
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

As Figure 2.2 of the Towards a New London Plan consultation shows, current brownfield housing contributions fall short of the Government’s housing need figure of 880,000 homes over 10 years. Can the Mayor provide an estimate of the maximum potential housing contribution for each of the identified categories, and indicate which of these categories currently have the largest shortfalls between potential capacity and actual delivery to date? The categories are: Opportunity Areas Central Activities Zone Town Centres Industrial Land Small Sites near Stations/Town Centres Other Small Sites Other Large Sites