Planning our future London

Flats and houses shouldn't be investments for those from abroad who don't live in them. Affordable housing should be affordable to those on average wage. Existing properties, including empty offices, should be repaired/ converted to provide housing rather than keep building loads of ugly tower blocks.

Without affordable homes people will live in slums and overcrowded conditions or London will become the preserve of the rich and key workers will have long commutes on top of their already long working hours. 

There are already parts of London full of empty flats that have been bought solely as investments with nobody living there. 

Housing is a basic human right, we need to start with making sure everyone has a home beofer tackling other issues. 

'Plans for a 15-storey women-only tower block in west London have been given the green light. Ealing Council approved the application, which will see 102 new flats built, from the Women's Pioneer Housing Association (WPA). Housing will be particularly focused on women facing domestic abuse'

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-65456335

London needs more women-only buildings.

I hope you pay close attention to response of those living in old stock flats vs those living in houses with gardens or flats with nice new rooftop gardens. 
 

there opinions on how to use space should be disregarded because they have there own. 
 

this is half the problem with these surveys. In every borrough the wealthiest are the loudest, most responsive and everything swings in favour of their needs.

I think government and public authorities should concentrate on high quality social housing (passif housing) and build enough of these for young people’s needs. New Buildings should be for at least 500 years and zero waste. 
Any empty homes should be taxed as waste, with up to 300% additional tax per annum and compulsorily requisitioned by local authority, if left empty for more than three years. 
The building work should be paid for by government investment that is not borrowed from banks, but invested directly into productive work, with money added to the economy. Government and local authorities should subtract income (to avoid inflation) by land value tax - introduced gradually over 5 years, to reflect the true value of land in an area, as a community asset. 
The people should be made sovereign of land in UK, as a medium term goal. 

New, and cheep homes in mixed development areas is key and the most important issues London faces. Rent prices are currently far to high, and house prices are prohibitively expensive, even in areas far outside of central London. To combat this, all areas of London need more houses, and most areas need more transport links alongside segregated cycle space. In the meantime, I would highly recommend the council consider rent control, until enough houses and flats are developed to correct the inflated market. 

I live in West London where the number of dangerous high rise flat blocs courtesy of Ealing Council is destroying the skyline without much improvement for homeless/poor housing stock problems of the area. Having lived previously in North London improvement to existing housing is the key answer along with better tenancy protections over rental properties. Most European countries especially Germany seem to have worked this out why can't UK?

Sadly I think London still needs more affordable homes. Lots. Repeat affordable. And social housing. Second to this, properly created and protected green space.

We should stop building homes for the wealthy. They have more than enough already and leave lots of them unoccupied or buy to rent. If we are to address the housing crisis we need council housing at low rents. `Affordable' is meaningless.

Re the taller vs lower buildings issue, here in Wandsworth, the huge developments around York Road, Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms are all uniformly huge and overbearing. Couldn't density be maintained while offering more of a mix? Something more like a range of hills rather than canyons and cliffs? How about, for example, mandating for the sale of smaller plots on the periphery of a high-rise core, perhaps more loosely regulated in terms of use (e.g. domestic, retail, business, industrial) to encourage more diversity in architectural styles and encourage innovation.

It would really help if laws were changed to prevent new properties being bought off plan by individual and corporate overseas investors to *not live in*. I can't believe more than 10 years after the St George's Wharf fiasco of empty new homes this is getting worse not better. Likewise, there needs to be far more severe fines for building companies who fail to build promised social housing: the fine should be more than the profit.