• Reference: 2025/1205
• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

What percentage of shared owners in London live in blocks that: (a) are owned by registered providers; and (b) are owned and managed by third parties?

• Reference: 2025/1209
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

The Government’s ‘expert advisory panel’ is currently looking at the development of new towns across England and is expected to make an announcement in the summer. What is your view on whether the New Towns proposals are an appropriate solution to tackling London’s Housing crisis?

• Reference: 2025/1199
• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

What options have you explored to secure private finance for building housing in London and what more can be done?

• Reference: 2025/1204
• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Can the GLA use its allocation for acquisitions in the current Affordable Homes Programme to fund buybacks of unmortgageable flats from shared owners for conversion into social or affordable rent?

• Reference: 2025/1196
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

When will your Green Roots Fund go live?

• Reference: 2025/1198
• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

What work are you undertaking to encourage and strengthen co-operative and community land trust housing in London?

• Reference: 2025/1207
• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Your Service Charges Charter states that housing providers “need to manage potential cost rises appropriately” and “should set out how leaseholders facing financial hardship may be assisted”. Should housing providers funded by the GLA support shared owners who bought a home before the Charter was introduced in the same way? Should funding of registered providers be conditional on evidence that they are supporting all their shared owners in the same way?

• Reference: 2025/1194
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

A resident has contacted me regarding catapults being used to harm animals. How many incidents, if any, involving catapults are being recorded each year by the Metropolitan Police Service and what more can you do to address this criminal behaviour? Is there a case for outlawing catapults?

• Reference: 2025/1197
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Enfield is home to one of the largest concentrations of Bulgarian nationals in the UK. What support have you provided to Bulgarian nationals who have made London their home?

• Reference: 2025/1206
• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Have you assessed the effectiveness of the London Plan Policy H6 in light of recent above average service charges increases? How many existing shared owners in London now have annual housing costs, including mortgage, rent and service charge, that are greater than 40 per cent of net household income?