• Reference: 2023/0659
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/0317, in which you say: “Deputy Mayor for Planning, Regeneration and Skills, Jules Pipe, is close to finalising his review of the Fixed Estate Charge (FEC) which is due to be published shortly.” You have been promising a review of the FEC at the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) since your answer to my question 2021/3564 in September 2021. Will this review be published in time for the London Assembly Plenary meeting on 16 March 2023 focussing on both Mayoral Development Corporations?

• Reference: 2023/0658
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/0323. Could you me provide me with any details of how dioxin pollution is monitored in the environment around the new homes and developments in Barking Riverside and Thamesmead, since these chemicals are a common by-product of incineration?

• Reference: 2023/0657
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/0322. However, I have been made aware of several other incinerators all built close to the Barking Riverside development. These include the Cory Riverside Recovery site, just across the River Thames (2 km south east), the Thames Gateway Energy Generation Facility (1.5 km south), the Thames Water Sewage Sludge Incinerator at Beckton (1 km west), and the SELCHP incinerator at Lewisham, (9 km south west). Could you tell me, do the Environment Agency, local planning authorities or developers assess the combined effect of individual incinerators, where they have been permitted in a...

• Reference: 2023/0656
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Could you update me on the programme of consultations on London Plan Guidance (LPG) as the 2021 programme is now complete?

• Reference: 2023/0655
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

While prioritising key workers for intermediate housing in London is a welcome development, the London Tenants Federation (LTF) says: “The Mayor knows very well that large numbers of the key workers who have been most at risk during the pandemic are the front-line working-class workers who, by and large, are not able to afford, nor are eligible for, intermediate housing. These include: construction and transport workers, security guards, caretakers, carers, cleaners, shop-workers and nurses, many of whom are in insecure employment.” What analysis have you done on the affordability of intermediate housing to key workers on lower wages?

• Reference: 2023/0654
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

In your answer to question 2022/1504, you said: “My key worker list is intended to help local authorities give key workers priority access to intermediate housing – and to do that in a way that’s consistent and transparent. Local authorities might use my list by incorporating it into any intermediate housing allocations policy. As the GLA isn’t a statutory consultee for the former, I won’t necessarily be aware of councils using the list in this way.” Since then, what action have you taken to ascertain which councils have adopted and approved more key worker housing, and, could you tell me...

• Reference: 2023/0653
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

In your answer to question 2022/2110, you said: “My forthcoming update to affordable housing London Plan Guidance (LPG) will cover a range of matters, including key worker priority access to intermediate affordable housing through the planning system. We expect to publish updated guidance for public consultation later in 2022 (as noted in Mayor’s question 2022/0517).” As it is now 2023, could you tell me when you expect to publish this planned LPG?

• Reference: 2023/0652
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

On 3 February 2023 the @MetPoliceEvents Twitter account announced that a section 35 dispersal order had been authorised for 10am-7pm on 4 February in central London in an area that overlapped with the location of planned protests. Follow-up posts clarified that it had not been authorised as part of the policing plan for those protests. The legislation covering section 35 states that: “In deciding whether to give such an authorisation an officer must have particular regard to the rights of freedom of expression and freedom of assembly set out in articles 10 and 11 of the Convention.” Given the overlap...

• Reference: 2023/0651
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Could you provide the most recent figures for numbers of casualties relating to hit and runs in London in 2022, broken down by: a) road user mode of both parties, b) severity type by CRASH/COPA (Collision Recording and Sharing system/Case Overview Preparation Application) categories: Fatal, Very Serious, Moderately Serious, Less Serious, and Slight, c) borough, and d) whether there was a prosecution?

• Reference: 2023/0650
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

What plans do Transport for London (TfL) and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have to publish data about injury severity collected under COPA (Case Overview Preparation Application)? Could the data be provided with detail dividing serious injuries into multiple categories such as very serious injuries, moderately serious injuries and less serious injuries, as well as categorising by specific injury, and breaking all these incidents down by road user type?