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:
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, Deputy Mayor
for Housing and Residential Development
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Ann Sutcliffe, Acting Corporate Director of
Place, London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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Steve Moore, Director of Neighbourhoods,
London Borough of Havering
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Martyn Thomas, Development and Transport
Planning Manager, London Borough of Havering
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James Clark, Senior Manager – Housing
Strategy, Housing and Land, GLA
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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).
