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London Living Rent and housing associations

  • Reference: 2017/2100
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
A number of constituents have contacted me concerned about rising rents in housing association (HA) properties. What actions are you taking to ensure that HAs do not raise rents for existing tenants beyond your definition of a London Living Rent?

Homes for Londoners Board

  • Reference: 2017/2099
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
Will you be including a) housing campaign groups, b) members of community groups, and c) representatives of private renters on the Homes for Londoners Board?

Recruitment to the City Hall expert viability team

  • Reference: 2017/2098
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
Thank you for your answer to my question 2016/4598. Do you have plans to increase the number of staff in your expert viability team? When do you expect to do this?

Publishing advice from the City Hall expert viability team

  • Reference: 2017/2097
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
Will you publish the advice provided to councils by your expert viability team, redacted if necessary, as a way of improving the scrutiny of viability claims by developers?

Work of the City Hall expert viability team (2)

  • Reference: 2017/2096
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
How many proposed schemes have seen an increase in the proportion of social and affordable homes based on the advice of your expert viability team?

Work of the City Hall expert viability team (1)

  • Reference: 2017/2095
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
How many development proposals have been referred to your expert viability team for advice, and how many councils have received advice from this team? Please provide a list of the schemes referred by borough.

London Housing Bank

  • Reference: 2017/2094
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
Following our discussion during the Budget and Performance Committee meeting on 10 January 2017, could you now tell me how you plan to use funds for the London Housing Bank in the upcoming budget years?

Monitoring demolition in Mayoral planning decisions

  • Reference: 2017/2093
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
Thank you for your response to my question 2017/0494. In future, will you monitor and report the number and size of buildings and homes demolished as part of projects you scrutinise as part of the planning process and those to which you give planning permission?

Holloway Prison site

  • Reference: 2017/2092
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
Following your response to my question 2016/3688, what representations have you made to the relevant ministers to ensure that the Holloway Prison site is not sold off to private developers but kept in public ownership and developed for community benefit?

Toolkit for resident consultation about draft estate guidance

  • Reference: 2017/2091
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
The Campaign Company has been commissioned to carry out a consultation with tenant and resident associations (TRAs) on estates for your draft Good Practice Guide to Estate Regeneration. Using a toolkit, residents are encouraged to respond to a different email address than the one you provide on your main consultation page. Could you tell me how you are going to process and analyse the data and responses sent to these two separate email addresses? Will the full results of all responses received by the Campaign Company be released for scrutiny or just a summary?
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