• Reference: 2025/0281
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

The city council of Louisville, Kentucky, have voted to adopt an Anti-Displacement Assessment Tool to ensure the risk of displacement is considered in planning, and protect low-income and marginalised groups from displacement. This was based on their 2019 Housing Needs Assessment, which undertook an analysis of displacement and gentrification – and which groups were most at risk. Will you explore how a similar tool might work in London, by a) meeting with academics who devised this tool in Louisville, and b) looking at how the upcoming Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA) can consider the risks of displacement faced by marginalised...

• Reference: 2025/0280
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

Constituents in Bethnal Green have raised concerns Tower Hamlets Council’s decision to force the non-profit Bethnal Green Weightlifting Club to leave its premises by 31 January 2025, despite the council having no plans in place for the premises. Will you ask Tower Hamlets Council to reconsider this decision, to help ensure the community do not lose this important club?

• Reference: 2025/0279
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

Around 150 tenants are being evicted from a single Build to Rent block in Lewisham, after their landlord – Aitch Group – served Section 21 notices to everyone in the building. Lewisham Council, among others, have warned there might be an increased use of Section 21 in the coming months, while landlords still have this power available to them before being scrapped by the Renters’ Rights Bill. What are you doing to prepare for a possible rise in Section 21 evictions, including ensuring tenants are equipped to contest the unfair use of this power?

• Reference: 2025/0278
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

Over 100 property guardians living on Camden Council’s Agar Grove Estate are facing eviction a result of recent rent hikes and new letting conditions imposed by the new property manager appointed by the council, Dex Property Management. With private renting so unaffordable, guardianships are often the only form of affordable housing available to people. Will you urge the Leader of Camden Council to intervene to prevent these evictions, by allowing guardians to continue existing agreements?

• Reference: 2025/0277
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

As reported by Greenwich Wire, a representative from Berkeley Homes said at a Greenwich Council planning meeting “there are controls within their residential leases that do ask that residents don’t make formal objections to our planning applications.” Given your working partnership with Berkeley Homes on a number of projects, will you push Berkeley to scrap this undemocratic clause from future leases?

• Reference: 2025/0276
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

Thank you for your answer to my question 2024/4036 confirming that the cross-river cycle shuttle-buses for the Silvertown road tunnel will be ready in time for its opening. Could you also confirm that the shuttle-buses will provide level boarding and that disabled people using adapted bicycles will be able to enter or alight from the buses with their bikes independently?

• Reference: 2025/0275
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

Thank you for your answer to my question 2024/4040 about the number of vehicles registered and unregistered with the DVLA involved in collisions. You said: “TfL does not hold the corresponding DVLA data so cannot provide information on registered and unregistered vehicles.” Therefore, could question 2024/4040 be put to MOPAC for answering?

• Reference: 2025/0274
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

What assessment has Transport for London (TfL) made of the full carbon lifecycle of both dockless and docked hire bikes, and how confident are you that dockless hire bike schemes support your target for London to achieve net zero carbon [check style] by 2030?

• Reference: 2025/0273
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

What data does Transport for London (TfL) collect on adherence to speed limits by buses? Could you provide the data by route, bus operator and whether buses on each route are fitted with Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA)?

• Reference: 2025/0272
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

How many bus waiting areas are there which are not for passengers entering or alighting buses on the Transport for London Road Network (TLRN) and/or bus lanes? And what is the impact of these waiting areas on bus journey times?