• Reference: 2022/1016
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

In your response to the City Hall Greens budget amendment proposing a Resident Empowerment Fund, you said: "Estate residents may choose to reject proposals through voting or abstention if they are not confident, for any reason, that the proposals they have been offered are right for them or their community.” This reads as though abstention from voting in a ballot amounts to rejection of the proposals. Could you confirm whether this is the case? If it is, will you update your estate regeneration guidance and Resident Ballot Requirement Funding Condition documentation to reflect this? 

• Reference: 2022/1015
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Thank you for your answer to my question 2021/4860. Could you confirm the planned and actual allocations to boroughs by financial year since the start of the programme for: a) Liveable Neighbourhoods, b) Local Implementation Plan (LIP) Majors, c) Local Implementation Plan (LIP) Corridors, d) Crossrail Complementary Measures, e) Borough Cycling, and f) Streetspace, and other short-term funding?

• Reference: 2022/1014
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Thank you for your answer to my question 2021/4860. I have attempted to use the figures provided in discussions with campaigners, but concerns have been raised about figures that remain listed for schemes that have not been implemented. What process are you following to reclaim or reallocate money given to boroughs for new walking and cycling infrastructure schemes that have been removed or cancelled?

• Reference: 2022/1013
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Two variations to the Silvertown Road Tunnel contract have already been made and detailed on the Transport for London (TfL) contracts listing. Are these the only variations to the contract to date, and what process was followed in making them?

• Reference: 2022/1012
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

What opportunities exist within the Affordable Housing Programme to allow higher grant rates for the Right to Buy Back scheme to cover the purchase of larger sized existing homes for families?

• Reference: 2022/1011
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

During the recent London Assembly Housing Committee investigation into Alternative Methods for Expanding Social Housing in London, GLA requirements over space standards were cited as the reason for grant not being given to obtain older properties, refurbish them and add them to social housing supply aimed at families. Is this the case and, if so, what can you do to enable the buying back of larger homes that don’t meet current space standards?

• Reference: 2022/1010
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Thank you for your answer to my question 2022/0519. Could you tell me: a) where the results of these case-by-case assessments of satisfactory progress are published, and b) which estate regeneration projects – by name – have had their estate ballot exemption status overturned and the reasons why?

• Reference: 2022/1009
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

People who live in apartment blocks that are part of a District Heating Network (DHN) are treated as commercial rather than domestic users and are therefore not covered by the energy cap. In the London Plan it states that you are: “exploring how to increase the rate of their development in London, which will require central government to create a level playing field for the treatment of district heating networks compared to other statutory utilities regarding access rights and business rates. ” What action have you taken to lobby the Government on this and what response have you received?

• Reference: 2022/1008
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

What data are you collating on the number of conversions of commercial premises to residential properties on London’s high streets under permitted development rights, and where is this information published?

• Reference: 2022/1007
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

A constituent has written to me concerning the fact that, in the most recent round of GLA affordable housing grants, the concept of ‘obsolete’ homes has been introduced. The Homes for Londoners: Affordable Homes Programme 2021-2026 documentation says about this: “36. The Affordable Homes Programme 2021-2026 provides funding for estate regeneration projects where the grant is used for additional homes. Funding will not be available for units that replace homes that have been, or will be, demolished. Where homes have become obsolete the GLA will consider funding these replacement homes in exceptional circumstances, and only as part of a scheme...