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Affordable Housing & Viability Supplementary Planning Guidance (6)

  • Reference: 2021/0669
  • Question by: Susan Hall
  • Meeting date: 25 February 2021
Further to the launch of your Supplementary Planning Guidance, have TfL followed through on their commitment to deliver 50% affordable housing across their development programme? If not, why have they failed to do so?

Affordable Housing & Viability Supplementary Planning Guidance (5)

  • Reference: 2021/0668
  • Question by: Susan Hall
  • Meeting date: 25 February 2021
As referenced in your 2018 press release entitled “Mayor’s new planning rules to boost affordable housing”, have your key housing associations & council partners delivered programmes of 60% or more affordable housing, backed by funding from your £3.15bn investment deal with the Government? If not, what are the reasons for this failure?

Affordable Housing and Viability Supplementary Planning Guidance (4)

  • Reference: 2021/0667
  • Question by: Susan Hall
  • Meeting date: 25 February 2021
On the back of the launch of your Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) in 2018, please detail which London councils have since made use of your expert viability team, in instances of developers trying to reduce affordable housing levels, after planning permission has been granted. Please demonstrate how effective your expert viability team have been in ensuring developers have kept to their original agreed affordable housing levels.

Affordable Housing & Viability Supplementary Planning Guidance (3)

  • Reference: 2021/0666
  • Question by: Susan Hall
  • Meeting date: 25 February 2021
Please advise as to how many housing developments on public land in the capital have, since the launch of your Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) in 2018, been comprised of at least 50% affordable housing, thereby qualifying for the fast-track route. How many homes has this delivered?

Affordable Housing & Viability Supplementary Planning Guidance (2)

  • Reference: 2021/0665
  • Question by: Susan Hall
  • Meeting date: 25 February 2021
Please advise as to how many housing developments on private land in London have, since the launch of your Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) in 2018, met your threshold of delivering 35% affordable housing without public funding. How many homes has this delivered?

Affordable Housing and Viability Supplementary Planning Guidance (1)

  • Reference: 2021/0664
  • Question by: Susan Hall
  • Meeting date: 25 February 2021
Since the launch of your Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) in 2017, please demonstrate how this has since facilitated the increase in levels of affordable housing in the capital, as well as having speeded up the decisions in the planning system.

Office-space protection (4)

  • Reference: 2021/0663
  • Question by: Susan Hall
  • Meeting date: 25 February 2021
Since your new office-space protection for new business launch in London in 2016, please provide details of your progress on seeking & implementing changes to permitted development rights, in collaboration with the Government.

Office-space protection (3)

  • Reference: 2021/0662
  • Question by: Susan Hall
  • Meeting date: 25 February 2021
Following on from the launch of your new office-space protection for new business in 2016, please outline which schemes have since provided linked affordable housing & business space in new London housing developments.

Office-space protection (2)

  • Reference: 2021/0661
  • Question by: Susan Hall
  • Meeting date: 25 February 2021
Further to the launch of your new office-space protection for new business in 2016, please detail the new spaces for small businesses, the creative industries, artists and the fashion industry - within new residential & mixed-use developments, which have been created in London.

Office-space protection (1)

  • Reference: 2021/0660
  • Question by: Susan Hall
  • Meeting date: 25 February 2021
Since your press release dated 03/06/16, entitled “Mayor announces new office-space protection for new business”, could you please demonstrate how your subsequent amendments to the London Plan have since provided stronger protection for small businesses & start-up workspace in the capital?
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