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National Affordable Housing Programme - underspend

  • Reference: 2012/3364
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 21 November 2012
Please provide further details of the schemes in Greenwich for which £11.901m was set aside, but which are not now proceeding (MD1058). Please provide a breakdown by tenure and the number of units these schemes were due to deliver.

First Buy Programme - additional funding

  • Reference: 2012/3363
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 21 November 2012
In your most recent Report to the Assembly you state that you have approved the allocation of £5.1m to provide the GLA's First Buy partners with additional funding to secure further sales in 2012/13. However, your Mayoral Decision (MD1058) outlines the allocation of an additional £12.016m, including a transfer of £11.901m from the National Affordable Housing Programme. Please can you confirm how much has been allocated, and from which budgets?

London Rental Standard

  • Reference: 2012/3362
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 21 November 2012
Further to the confirmation from your Deputy Mayor for Housing, Land and Property that the GLA will have no role in enforcing your proposed London Rental Standard, will you ensure that the different accrediting bodies adopt a common procedure for dealing with complaints so that consumer confidence can be maintained?

Seaside and Country Homes scheme

  • Reference: 2012/3361
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 21 November 2012
Please can you confirm whether any homes will be delivered outside borough boundaries through your inherited Affordable Housing Programme (2012-15)?

Crystal Palace Sports Centre

  • Reference: 2012/3360
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 21 November 2012
Following confirmation from the chief executive of the London Legacy Development Corporation that the Olympic stadium will not reopen for football or athletics until August 2015 at the earliest, can you confirm that you will retain responsibility and liability for the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre beyond 2014 and until alternative premises become available?

GLA land - estate management costs

  • Reference: 2012/3359
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 21 November 2012
Please outline the costs associated with maintaining GLA land holdings, including the National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace?

Housing Covenant

  • Reference: 2012/3358
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 21 November 2012
Has the statutory Housing Strategy been superseded by your new Housing Covenant? If not, will you ensure that any changes brought about by the Housing Covenant are subject to further public consultation?

London Brownfields Database

  • Reference: 2012/3357
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 21 November 2012
Further to MQ1266/2012, what progress has been made to evaluate the future use of the London Brownfield Database? Will you publish a list of all land owned by the GLA and functional bodies so that developers can more easily identify potential investment sites?

Temporary use of GLA land

  • Reference: 2012/3356
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 21 November 2012
What consideration has been given to encouraging greater temporary use of GLA land where development is not forthcoming; how will you ensure that the quality and character of the local environment is maintained around vacant sites?

Sitematch London database

  • Reference: 2012/3355
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 21 November 2012
Further to your decision to add six GLA-owned sites to the Sitematch London database, what interest has been shown by developers? Do you have any plans to include other land assets inherited from the LDA, HCA or LTGDC?
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