• Reference: 2017/3974
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

I was pleased to hear you confirm at Mayor's Question Time on 14 September 2017 (in response to questions on your oral report) that your £250 million land fund would be used to support community-led housing. How will community-led housing groups and organisations be able to access this fund?

• Reference: 2017/3973
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

Thank you for your answer to my question 2017/2209, where you confirm you will refuse to authorise any further conversions of social rented homes to higher rents. Does your new policy include preventing these higher rents being charged to social rent tenants when they move into replacement homes provided after demolition and rebuilding of their estates?

• Reference: 2017/3972
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

Currently, only policy 5.3 (Community support for homebuilding) gives support to community-led housing in your draft Housing Strategy. There is no mention of this model of providing genuinely affordable homes in policies 3.3 (Diversifying the homebuilding industry), 4.1 (Genuinely affordable homes) or 4.2 (Increasing delivery of affordable homes). Why is there no mention of community led housing in the other policies and will this be corrected in your final Housing Strategy?

• Reference: 2017/3971
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

Following my previous questions on this issue, I was delighted to see that policy 6.2 b(ii) in your draft Housing Strategy commits you to further work with employers to widen access to tenancy deposit loan schemes. In response to my question 2017/0497 in February 2017 you said that you were "writing to a number of employers in London, urging them to implement tenancy deposit loans." Could you provide a list of employers who have responded positively to your suggestions, and a further list of those who you know have introduced these schemes as a result?

• Reference: 2017/3970
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

Your draft Housing Strategy doesn't currently make any mention of the social and environmental impacts of the demolition of existing homes as part of development. I wrote to your Deputy Mayor for Housing and Residential Development about the importance of considering these impacts in August 2016. Are your officers preparing any analysis of these issues in preparation for new policies within your draft London Plan?

• Reference: 2017/3969
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

I was encouraged to read in policy 6.1 A(iii) of your draft Housing Strategy that you will be "opposing the discriminatory Right to Rent policy." Could you provide details about how you will be urging the Government to scrap this initiative and which campaign groups you are working with?

• Reference: 2017/3968
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

Thank you for your response to my question 2017/3611. Will the total number of affordable units reported through the London Development Database be split into a) social rent/London Affordable Rent homes, b) London Living Rent homes, c) affordable rent homes under the definition set by the Government, and d) affordable shared ownership?

• Reference: 2017/3967
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

Thank you for your response to my question 2017/3610. Could you provide a further table with the homes approved through planning applications referred to you split into a) social rent/London Affordable Rent homes, b) London Living Rent homes, c) affordable rent homes under the definition set by the Government, and d) affordable shared ownership?

• Reference: 2017/3966
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

Thank you for your response to my question 2017/3609. Could you provide a further version of table 2 from the appendix to your draft Housing Strategy, with the delivery schedule split into annual estimates of starts for a) social rent/London Affordable Rent homes, b) London Living Rent homes, c) affordable rent homes under the definition set by the Government, and d) affordable shared ownership?

• Reference: 2017/3965
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

Will you make public all the documentation showing why the H14 and H16 bridges are needed for the Sweetwater development? If there is a contractual financial arrangement, this should be made clear.