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Shared Ownership (6)

  • 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?

New Towns

  • 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?

Private Finance for Housebuilding

  • 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?

Shared Ownership (5)

  • 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?

Green Roots Fund

  • Reference: 2025/1196
  • Question by: Joanne McCartney
  • Meeting date: 20 March 2025
When will your Green Roots Fund go live?

Co-Operative and CLT Housing in London

  • 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?

Shared Ownership (8)

  • 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?

Catapults

  • 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?

Support to Bulgarian Londoners

  • 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?

Shared Ownership (7)

  • 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?
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