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  • Housing Demand (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    That is entirely wrong because you have not addressed the central part of the thesis. 50% of 500 houses is infinitely less than 30% of 2000 houses, so, if the only way they have been able to meet their affordable housing target is by reducing the overall quantum of houses built, it suggests that the policy is an entire failure but you are able to meet your statistical figure.

  • Housing Demand (Supplementary) [11]

    • Question by: Bob Blackman
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    Finally, what are you going to do about the still considerable number of empty properties that are not brought onto the housing market at all?

  • Housing Demand (Supplementary) [12]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    I have asked him where these buildings are going to be built and who is going to build them. I also draw to his attention that the largest chunk of building which is being proposed is at the Thames Gateway where the Strategy says there will be 100,000 new dwellings built, but, in July, in reply to a question from me, the Mayor said there were only going to be 40,000. In effect what I am saying to you is this: the figures that you are producing relate to slogans and have no relationship whatsoever to what has actually been...

  • Housing Demand (Supplementary) [13]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    Only 31% of the houses built in 2005/6 were affordable, which was a grand total of fewer than 8,000. What you have done is simply cherry picked the figures.

  • Housing Demand (Supplementary) [14]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    Where are they going to be built, Neale, these houses?

  • Housing Demand (Supplementary) [15]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    Two short points, if I might, on that. Are you saying then, Neale, can I be clear, that the developments which are currently proposed are not dependent, for example, therefore, on the extension of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) down to Rainham?

  • Housing Demand (Supplementary) [16]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    How many of the houses in this programme have already been built and are going to be bought from the private market?

  • Housing Demand (Supplementary) [17]

    • Question by: Bob Blackman
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    The key is that when those properties come available, there is a queue a mile long to acquire them. So, there is clearly a need for more of those types of properties.

  • Housing Demand (Supplementary) [18]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    Finally, can I take if from what you said that the Mayor will continue to oppose any nationalisation, in effect, of the Section 106 legal agreement monies through a national Planning Gain Supplement (PGS).

  • Housing Demand (Supplementary) [19]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    So there is double counting?