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  • City Operations Programme

    • Reference: 2011/0083-1
    • Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
    • Meeting date: 20 July 2011
    What are your priorities in relation to the London 2012 City Operations Programme, and what do you think the key challenges and risks will be?

  • Housing Demand (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Bob Blackman
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    So why have you set such a low limit? Why not 25% or 30%?

  • 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) [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) [25]

    • Question by: Bob Blackman
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    Two quick areas I would just like to raise: how are you going to address the need for new affordable housing for families when we have already got a surplus of one bedroom properties at affordable level, and a large element of the developments that have taken place have been two bedroom properties? In actual fact the demand now in London is very much for family housing, both for affordable housing for rent but also housing that can be bought by families.

  • The Mayor's draft Housing Strategy (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    Neale, it was clarity we were looking for. Alan Benson, Head of Housing, met with Members - certainly of my Group - and we welcome that and we feel that we fed in and we can see, in the Strategy, issues of concern to us that have been addressed, but what we wanted to get was what difference this is going to make so that the current situation is not going to really improve; the Mayor does not have a power to actually deal with this issue.

  • The Mayor's draft Housing Strategy (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    What actions are you taking in terms of this serious concern that the councils have raised?

  • The Mayor's draft Housing Strategy (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    I do not know that that answers the question because, from what you have said, it does not appear that he does have any powers to use directly in relation to this issue about boroughs who do not take up their grant, because you were saying that you would then wait to use the planning powers.

  • The Mayor's draft Housing Strategy (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    The last question: it is about Capital Moves. Is it right that all boroughs have signed up to Capital Moves?

  • Housing Demand (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Bob Blackman
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    Why then has the Mayor opposed, for example, what Wandsworth has been doing to bring back empty homes into the housing market?