• Reference: 2025/1209
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

The Government’s ‘expert advisory panel’ is currently looking at the development of new towns across England and is expected to make an announcement in the summer. What is your view on whether the New Towns proposals are an appropriate solution to tackling London’s Housing crisis?

• Reference: 2025/1208
• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

How many of London’s shared owners are currently in arrears on rent or service charge and what support is available to them?

• Reference: 2025/1207
• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Your Service Charges Charter states that housing providers “need to manage potential cost rises appropriately” and “should set out how leaseholders facing financial hardship may be assisted”. Should housing providers funded by the GLA support shared owners who bought a home before the Charter was introduced in the same way? Should funding of registered providers be conditional on evidence that they are supporting all their shared owners in the same way?