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• Reference: 2024/1388
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 May 2024

A rapidly increasing number of Greenwich and Lewisham residents are being forced into paying extortionate service charges. What discussions are you taking to ensure that my residents are not forced to sell their property as a result of unfair and completely unreasonable services charges?

• Reference: 2024/1389
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 May 2024

A recent survey of London homeowners showed that only 35% felt their ground rent and service charges were affordable. What are you doing to safeguard residents against increasing ground rents?

• Reference: 2024/0170
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Residents in Wennington in Havering, whose homes were destroyed in a fire last year, face being charged up to £10,000 in Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) to rebuild their homes, including around £3,000 from the Mayor of London CIL, unless they can commit to living in the home for three years after it is rebuilt. Could you please investigate this and use whatever exemptions are possible, such as discretionary relief, to waive the requirement for Mayoral CIL entirely for these properties, and encourage Havering Council to do the same with their local CIL?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Len Duvall AM: This year, you have managed to exceed your delivery targets on affordable housing despite the challenging economic climate. London is also building more council homes than the rest of the country. The Government, on the other hand, has missed its targets by several thousand. What do you intend to do in terms of the coming year? Is it more of the same or are you going to raise your game even further by exceeding those targets in the coming years if you are able to?

• Reference: 2023/4075
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Do you agree with Redbridge Council’s decision to lease part of the Oakfield Playing Fields to a private company, denying access to the public of this long-established piece of Green Belt, which is currently used by upwards of thirty teams a week? Given you intervened last time this piece of Green Belt was under threat, will you use your offices to do so again?

• Reference: 2023/1608
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

Could you please provide the locations of all of the designated hazardous waste sites in the RM13 area and a breakdown of what types of hazardous waste can be accepted on those sites?

• Reference: 2023/0782
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

How many homes have been bought by Greenwich and Lewisham councils using GLA money since 2016?

• Reference: 2023/0784
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

How many people in Greenwich and Lewisham have used the Mayor’s checker for Landlords?

• Reference: 2023/0785
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

How many grants have been given in Greenwich and Lewisham?

• Reference: 2023/0461
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 19 January 2023

At 4.10 of the LLDC budget submission it states that unfunded design risks were highlighted last year as a risk. What is the financial impact of delays to the design completions?