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FOI - 21-26 Affordable Housing and Temporary Accommodation [Jul 2024]

Key information

Request reference number: MGLA030524-2287 MGLA030524-2289

Date of response:

Summary of request

21-26 Affordable Housing funding

1. List the schemes funded by SSH capital funding in London Boroughs since 2022

We do not report information at a scheme level, however, details of programme delivery, including supported housing programmes, are published on the GLA website at the following link: GLA-stats-general-programmes-Q4.xlsx (live.com)

2. List the schemes funded through CHAP funding that are sui-generis in planning approval

The GLA housing and land team do not hold information on sui-generis schemes.

3. How many Centrepoint schemes have received affordable Housing funding?
4. How many YMCA schemes have received affordable Housing funding?
5. How many Crisis schemes have received affordable Housing funding?

(3-5) Details of affordable housing funding decisions are held on the delegates approval list
which is available on the GLA website at the following link, this will include funding made to
hostels: Delegated-Approval-List-cumulative_Q4_2023-24.xlsx (live.com)

6. How many schemes specifically for homelessness (without support needs) have been
funded?

Within the Mayor’s Affordable Housing 2021-26, the GLA launched a sub programme primarily to enable councils to acquire homes that may be used for temporary accommodation, which that programme 59 schemes have been identified specifically for homeless client groups.

7. How many sui-generis in planning approval have been funded since 2022?
8. List the funding pathways for no.7 above.

(7-8) The GLA housing and land team do not hold information on sui-generis schemes.

Temporary Accommodation - Please provide information on GLA funded schemes since 2021.

1. How many schemes are funded in London for Temporary Accommodation that do not meet mayoral space standards?

Within the Mayor’s Affordable Housing 2021-26, the GLA launched a sub programme primarily to enable councils to acquire homes that may be used for temporary accommodation. For schemes within this programme the GLA does not hold information on whether the units meet the Mayor’s space standard, however a full assessment of the schemes is undertaken prior to a funding decision and only those that fit with the Mayor’s priorities for this programme are taken forward.

2. How many affordable housing schemes have been funded in London that are sui-generis in planning approval?

The GLA housing and land team do not hold information on sui-generis schemes.

3. How many schemes have received mayoral funding that are 50% below mayoral space standards?

The GLA housing and land team does not hold the information showing the % below space standards in our project details. All schemes proposed with the Mayor’s housing programmes are discussed in full with the GLA to ensure that they are within the Mayor’s requirements for housing programmes. Projects that fail to meet space standards by more than 50% would fall outside the AH programme requirements.

4. How many HMO schemes have been funded?

The GLA housing and land team does not hold this information.

5. How many hostels have been funded?

Details of affordable housing funding decisions are held on the delegates approval list which is available on the GLA website at the following link, this will include funding made to hostels: Delegated-Approval-List-cumulative_Q4_2023-24.xlsx (live.com)

6. How many B&B/Foyers/Hotels have been funded?

The GLA housing and land team does not fund B&B/Hotels or Foyers.

7. What other innovative affordable housing schemes have been funded not meeting mayoral spatial standards?

There are no innovative affordable housing schemes that have been funded that do not meet the Mayor’s spatial standards.

8. How many permanent housing schemes, suitable for temporary use (below mayoral spatial standards) have been funded?

The GLA team does not hold information that identifies homes suitable for temporary uses that may be within permanent housing schemes taken forward within GLA programmes.

9. Have "mean-while" use schemes received mayoral funding?

10. How many schemes over 50 units, no greater in size than 55sqm, received funding?

The GLA does not hold information about the overall size of scheme development sites.

Area Response
L&D and Royal Docks None since 2021
GLA Culture Programme: Creative Industries at Smithfields: Workspace Delivery
Description: Enable and incubate creative industries uses at Smithfields Market through meanwhile use activation. Setup and support studio space and 2 years of fashion residency
Amount: £125,000
Award date: 15 March 2024
GLA Regeneration The Mayor’s Good Growth Fund and High Streets for All Challenge Fund has invested in a number of meanwhile projects to date including a range of affordable workspace, high street, social infrastructure and public realm projects. Typically, these projects have enabled the development of more resilient local economies in the context of large-scale growth planned in an area, helping to strengthen civic networks and steward the local community through longer transformative change that is to follow. For example, the Mayor invested £1.1m in a series of integrated and high street focused town centre regeneration projects in Angel Edmonton, LB Enfield. Projects included:
  • Angel Yard – the creation of 35 low-cost affordable workspaces for local businesses in a disused garages and laundry yard, with a business support programme operated by Launch It Trust.
  • Fore Street ‘Living Room Library’ – the refurbishment of the existing library on Fore Street to create an engagement space for community and cultural activities to be hosted alongside traditional library activities. This approach expands opening hours of the library, boosts the local night time economy and helps to improve safety at night.
  • Angel Edmonton Artworks Public Art Murals – a series of art installations at targeted spots around Angel Edmonton, designed to improve wayfinding and connections to the high street, and tackle antisocial behaviour. Led by local community organisation REACT.
  • School Street - public realm and street improvements to reduce vehicle emissions and improve air quality outside St John & St James Church of England Primary School on Grove Street

 

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