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• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much, Chair. My question is to Lyn to begin with. I want to ask about the issue with changing the housing tenures in planning applications. One of the residents has raised concerns with me about developers applying to change the planning permission they have for residential development into student accommodation. It is plot N16 in East Village. It is Get Living. They plan to replace 188 homes with 520 student beds. Included in those 188 homes in the existing planning application, we would lose 31 three-bedroom family homes. Also, you have loads of student...

• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Sem Moema AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning to both of you. Assembly Member Berry has covered much of the issues that I wanted to ask you about, the fixed estate charge, apart from saying that I would welcome the suggestion she has made to have that review and, post powers being returned to the local authorities, that there is a mechanism in place to make sure that is ongoing and that we do not get into a situation where the fixed estate charge becomes a second service charge, which makes it unaffordable for people to live on the Park...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much, Chair. My first question is also to the Deputy Mayor. In terms of going for the Games in the first place, if [Sir] Peter Hendy had not quoted Ken Livingstone , I would have done because it really is crucial that we did not go for it on the point of sport; we did it because development of the East End was the main point. That quote from Ken Livingstone ends with, “Build the housing”. Therefore I want to ask about housing and particularly overcrowding. Within the convergence framework that resulted, there were...

• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Sem Moema AM: Thank you, Chair. Before I ask my quick question, I want to welcome Dave. Thank you for travelling all this way and I hope you get a question, but sadly my question is for Jules and Lyn. I am sorry. My question is very similar to Assembly Member Berry’s about GRT provision, but just to say that Bartrip Street was a TfL-Hackney partnership rather than the GLA’s. Perhaps you may not have been involved with that. I have been in discussion with Tom Copley [Deputy Mayor for Housing and Residential Development] about supporting the reprovision of that...