Every London Mayor sets new goals for the capital, to provide the framework for a liveable City and an ever-growing population.
The Mayor’s new draft London Plan was published on 1 December 2017 and is open to consultation until March 2018.
- London is in need of more affordable housing.
- Outer London boroughs are shouldering 58% of the burden in the new plan, compared with 41% in the current plan
- The Mayor has received £3.15bn from DCLG to deliver 90,000 starts on affordable homes by 2021.
- The Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA) indicates a need for 65,878 new homes a year in London, of which 43,500 should be affordable but the London Plan target is for only half of these new homes needed per year to be affordable.
- Of the overall total the assessment suggests that 55 per cent of these, or 36,335, should be one bedroom units despite concerns about overcrowding.
- The draft new Plan does not include a target for the number of bedrooms in new housing developments, instead referring boroughs to the SHMA and to assess based on local need.
The London Assembly Housing Committee will scrutinise the London Plan’s housing strategy tomorrow, with the focus on affordable housing, housing size mix and small sites.
The guests are:
- James Murray, Deputy Mayor for Housing and Residential Development
- Ann Sutcliffe, Acting Corporate Director of Place, London Borough of Tower Hamlets
- Steve Moore, Director of Neighbourhoods, London Borough of Havering
- Martyn Thomas, Development and Transport Planning Manager, London Borough of Havering
- James Clark, Senior Manager – Housing Strategy, Housing and Land, GLA
- Rachael Rooney, Principal Strategy Planner - London Plan, GLA
The meeting will take place on Tuesday 23 January from 10 am in Committee Room 5 (The Queen’s Walk, London SE1 2AA).
Media and members of the public are invited to attend
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The meeting can also be viewed LIVE via webcast or YouTube
Notes to editors
- Full agenda
- Sian Berry AM, Chair of the Housing Committee, is available for interviews. See contact details below.
- As well as investigating issues that matter to Londoners, the London Assembly acts as a check and a balance on the Mayor.
For media enquiries, please contact Sonia Labboun on 020 7983 5769. For out of hours media enquiries, call 020 7983 4000 and ask for the London Assembly duty press officer. Non-media enquiries should be directed to the Public Liaison Unit on 020 7983 4100.