• Reference: 2025/1761
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Please can you tell me: a) what meetings you have had with the Whitgift Foundation regarding the regeneration of Croydon town centre, b) who has been present at the meetings, and c) how you are ensuring that residents are able to coproduce and benefit from any plans?

• Reference: 2025/1760
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

What are you asking the Government for in the June Spending Review to support the acquisition and building of more social housing?

• Reference: 2025/1759
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Do you endorse the general calls made in the housing charity Shelter report, Safe as Houses: Why Investment in Social Housing is Great for Us and Our Economy, for a new, 10-year Affordable Homes Programme worth £30 - 38.2bn in the first five years (with an appropriate amount allocated to London)?

• Reference: 2025/1758
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Last month, the Queens Market Traders Union wrote to Newham Council requesting a freeze on the proposed increases to their pitch fees. In this letter, signed by almost 50 traders, they described how the well-documented issues with works funded under the Good Growth Fund and carried out by Newham council have been detrimental to their businesses over the past sixteen months, citing a 15 - 40 per cent drop in takings for their traders. Given their concerns derive from the poor management of the Good Growth Fund, will you contact the council and endorse their request for a rent freeze...

• Reference: 2025/1757
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Do you intend to renew funding for the Good Growth Fund, your flagship regeneration programme, when the current programme ends this year?

• Reference: 2025/1756
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Your Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP) under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 enables councils to purchase and convert properties for social rent. How many London boroughs have successfully bid for CHAP funding?

• Reference: 2025/1755
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

There is a chronic shortage of housing in London that is both affordable and accessible. When you allocate grant funding to projects under the current Affordable Homes Programme, is there flexibility to ensure the additional costs of building accessible homes can be covered?

• Reference: 2025/1754
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

How much funding have you awarded to estate regeneration projects under the AHP 2016-2023 and AHP 2021-2026? Please provide the answer in a table format.

• Reference: 2025/1753
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Your city-wide role in rough sleeping has a huge role in supporting marginalised groups, where numbers of rough sleepers might be quite small at a borough level but amount to a large population London-wide. How will your Rough Sleeping Action Plan acknowledge the distinct experiences of LGBTIQA+ rough sleepers?

• Reference: 2025/1752
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

On 14 December 2024 the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) used Section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 to disperse a group of carol singers who had gathered outside of the Houses of Parliament. Complaints were made by members of the public to the MPS about this incident. How is MOPAC working with the MPS to help them learn from this incident as part of their learning culture?