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Junction Great Eastern Street (3)

  • Reference: 2025/0287
  • Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2025
Can you provide a breakdown of the projected cost associated with the installation of pedestrian crossings, a toucan crossing and widened footways in the vicinity of Great Eastern Street and Curtain Road in the borough of Hackney?

Junction Great Eastern Street (2)

  • Reference: 2025/0286
  • Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2025
Can you provide a breakdown, by year and by those incidents designated as KSI (Killed or Seriously Injured), of the number of collisions that have taken place at the junction of Shoreditch High Street and Great Eastern Street in the borough of Hackney between January 2016 and January 2025?

Junction Great Eastern Street (1)

  • Reference: 2025/0285
  • Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2025
Can you provide a breakdown, by year and by those incidents designated as KSI (Killed or Seriously Injured), of the number of collisions that have taken place at the junction of Great Eastern Street and Curtain Road in the borough of Hackney between January 2016 and June 2021?

Supporting young Londoners

  • Reference: 2025/0284
  • Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2025
What more could you be doing to support young Londoners?

Updated Development Viability London Plan Guidance publication

  • Reference: 2025/0283
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2025
In September 2024, you said the updated version of the Development Viability London Plan Guidance (LPG) – which went to consultation in March 2023 – would be published by the end of the year. Do you have an update on when this will be published?

Preparing for Renters’ Rights Bill

  • Reference: 2025/0282
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 16 January 2025
The Renters Rights’ Bill is promising significant reform of the private rented sector, but tenants need to know their rights and feel empowered to assert them. What are your plans to communicate these legislative changes to London’s two million private renters, to ensure the potential benefits of the Bill can be realised?

Anti-displacement planning tool

  • 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...

Bethnal Green gym eviction

  • 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?

Mass Section 21 evictions

  • 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?

Mass evictions from Camden guardianship

  • 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?
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