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Affordable housing - compliance with social rent levels (3)

  • Reference: 2016/4591
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
How has the GLA monitored compliance to ensure that the £26m funding allocated to Hyde Housing to build 247 social rented homes as part of the Bermondsey Spa regeneration project has resulted in those homes being let at social rents?

Affordable housing - compliance with social rent levels (2)

  • Reference: 2016/4590
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
How do you monitor compliance to ensure that when planning agreements made for developments you call in and approve include an obligation to build social rented homes, the homes built are let at rent levels set by the National Rent Regime? Does the GLA cross check the CORE database of current rents charged against the rent levels specified by the respective planning agreements?

Affordable housing - compliance with social rent levels (1)

  • Reference: 2016/4589
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
How do you monitor compliance to ensure that when the GLA allocates funding to build social rented homes, the homes built are let at social rents? Does the GLA cross check the rent levels required by the funding agreements against lettings data that registered providers submit to the Homes and Community Agency or CORE database?

Guidance for regeneration plans by housing associations

  • Reference: 2016/4588
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
Is your 'best practice guidance' for estate regeneration also intended to influence the actions of housing associations when developing plans for their estates, such as the Northwold Estate in Hackney?

Environment Strategy - front gardens

  • Reference: 2016/4587
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
Will your forthcoming Environment Strategy encourage homeowners and property landlords to maintain or retrofit environmental habitats for nature in front gardens?

Divestment from fossil fuels pledge - LPFA (2)

  • Reference: 2016/4586
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
Further to your answer to my question 2016/3046 regarding your commitment to divest the London Pension Fund Authority (LPFA) of its remaining investments in fossil fuel industries, what specific actions have you taken since coming to office?

Divestment from fossil fuels pledge – re-appointed Chair of LPFA

  • Reference: 2016/4585
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
What actions will the re-appointed Chair of the London Pension Fund Authority (LPFA) for a further two years, take to deliver your manifesto commitment to “take all possible steps to divest the London Pension Fund Authority of its remaining investments in fossil-fuel industries”?

Retaining trees

  • Reference: 2016/4584
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
As part of your objective to increase London's tree canopy cover by 5 percentage points by 2025, what are you doing to protect mature London Plane and other large canopy cover trees from the long-term threats that come from climate change, disease and pests?

Air pollution

  • Reference: 2016/4583
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
What steps are you taking to reduce concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in Brompton Road to below the levels seen in 2015?

Tube dust - latest report (2)

  • Reference: 2016/4582
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
Further to your answer to my question 2016/3027, please will you publish the last report received by Transport for London (TfL) from "4-Rail Services Ltd" about levels of tube dust in the London Underground?
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