• Reference: 2025/2870
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

For major schemes like Brent Cross Town and the proposed West London Orbital, what planning tools is the Mayor implementing to ensure housing delivery aligns with transport provision?

• Reference: 2025/2869
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

How will the new London Plan build on lessons from schemes like Barking Riverside, where housing could only proceed after transport links were extended, to ensure future developments are planned alongside infrastructure?

• Reference: 2025/2868
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

How much industrial land has been lost in London in each of the past five years, and what steps is the Mayor taking to ensure that loss is offset by intensification, co-location or substitution where possible (in line with policy E7 of the current London Plan)?

• Reference: 2025/2867
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Can you provide more details on this programme? What outcomes or metrics will be used to assess the success of the ATLAS London pilot, and is the Mayor considering scaling up the programme if the pilot proves successful?

• Reference: 2025/2866
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Has the GLA developed any benchmarks or minimum staffing thresholds for borough planning departments, and if so, how do current borough resourcing levels compare to these benchmarks?

• Reference: 2025/2865
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

What assessment options are officers considering to incorporate currently unmapped constraints (see question and answer 2025/2665) such as utilities, transport capacity and land ownership, into borough-level housing targets for the new London Plan?

• Reference: 2025/2864
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

How many office buildings completed in London since 2020 have been designed with full mechanical air-conditioning systems, and what proportion of these incorporate low-carbon or passive cooling measures?

• Reference: 2025/2863
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

How is City Hall working with boroughs and registered providers to reduce the risk of affordable housing being lost to the open market through mortgage exclusion clauses or other contractual loopholes in section 106 agreements?

• Reference: 2025/2862
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

In light of a recent High Court judgement against Westminster City Council on mortgagee protection clauses in section 106 agreements, what steps is the Mayor taking to ensure that affordable housing secured through planning obligations in London remains protected in perpetuity wherever possible?

• Reference: 2025/2861
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Given some concerns in the development sector about delays to housing and infrastructure caused by legal challenges under the Aarhus Convention, what assessment has the Mayor made of the Convention’s impact on housing delivery in London?