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Rent controls for London

  • Reference: 2017/2803
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 13 July 2017
The Labour Party's 2017 General Election manifesto recognised that many private renters face insecurity and promised to introduce controls on rent rises. Although your party is not currently in Government do you support this policy to curb rent rises in London?

Housing Zones and demolition

  • Reference: 2017/2802
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 13 July 2017
Thank you for your response to my question 2016/4599. How many social rented properties have been, or are planned to be, demolished in your housing zones? Please provide a total and the number per zone and development project.

Government Community Housing Fund grants to councils

  • Reference: 2017/2801
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 13 July 2017
What are you doing to help councils best use the Community Housing Fund grants provided by the Government, including helping them to better coordinate their work on this topic?

Letting agent fees ban consultation

  • Reference: 2017/2800
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 13 July 2017
The Government opened a consultation on a ban on letting agent fees being charged to tenants on 7 April 2017. Did you respond to the government consultation and did your response support the ban? What evidence have you seen on the effects of letting fees on renters in London?

Diamond Jubilee Bridge

  • Reference: 2017/2799
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 13 July 2017
I am pleased that you referred to plans for this bridge on page 218 of your draft transport strategy. Please provide an update on work undertaken by Transport for London (TfL) and Wandsworth Council to progress the project?

Security barriers on London bridges (2)

  • Reference: 2017/2798
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 13 July 2017
For how long will the security barriers installed on London bridges remain in place?

Security barriers on London bridges (1)

  • Reference: 2017/2797
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 13 July 2017
At how many locations have security barriers now been installed and are there plans to install them anywhere else?

Security barriers on Blackfriars Bridge

  • Reference: 2017/2796
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 13 July 2017
I have received reports of significant bottlenecks of pedestrians and cyclists developing at the north end of Blackfriars Bridge as a result of the recently-installed security barriers. Will you ask Transport for London (TfL) and the Metropolitan Police Service to adjust the barriers so that security is maintained but congestion eased?

Exhibition space in London

  • Reference: 2017/2795
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 13 July 2017
According to the Association of Event Organisers, 30 per cent of London's exhibition space was lost as a result of the demolition of Earl's Court 1 and 2. Will your new draft London Plan contain policies that support new exhibition space for London?

London City Airport - noise complaints

  • Reference: 2017/2794
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 13 July 2017
According to London City Airport's statistics, presented to its Consultative Committee, since City Airport introduced concentrated flight paths, noise complaints from residents have increased four-fold in 2016, compared with the previous year. Will you press London City Airport to review their concentrated flight paths and clarify the steps they are taking to guarantee communities a break from aviation noise?
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