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• Reference: 2019/20961
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

It is great that the new Public London Charter will be embedded in your new London Plan. Could you update us on how it is being drawn up and when we can expect it to be published?

• Reference: 2019/20962
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

The latest London Plan Annual Monitoring Report finds that “Bexley, Bromley, the City of London and Kingston upon Thames recorded no completions of affordable homes with three bedrooms or more” in 2017/18, with other boroughs also recording very low levels of family sized affordable housing. How will you make sure boroughs increase the delivery of family sized affordable homes across London, which is much needed?

• Reference: 2019/20963
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

From table 3.31 of the latest London Plan Annual Monitoring Report, could you provide the number of new conventional homes in the pipeline in each borough and tenure that are “family-sized”, i.e. have three or more bedrooms?

• Reference: 2019/20964
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Can you provide a list of all planning applications which have been approved in the past five years which have included development on Green Belt or Metropolitan Open Land?

• Reference: 2019/20965
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

What progress have you made lobbying the Government to implement the reforms proposed in the GLA’s “Capital Gains” report, in particular the introduction of “Land Assembly Zones”? Will you work with the new Government to ensure the necessary legislative changes are enacted?

• Reference: 2019/20557
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Following your response to my question 2019/19990, could you break down the number of studio and one-bedroom flats given permission by tenure type?

• Reference: 2019/20558
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

The scenario from the 2017 Strategic Housing Market Assessment that is based on current evidence finds that approximately 30% of new homes in London should have one bedroom. Your response to my question 2019/19990 shows that 44% of new approvals in 2018/19 were for one-bedroom flats, and 43% of those referable to you. What steps are you taking to reduce this figure, to ensure that a greater proportion of new homes given permission are two-bedroom and family-sized?

• Reference: 2019/20559
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Your response to my question 2019/19990 defines a studio as “A self-contained flat where there is no separate bedroom.” The minimum internal space standards for new dwellings set out in table 3.1 of your new draft London Plan state that the smallest dwelling allowed is 37 square metres for a one-person one-bedroom flat. In which case, is it right for developers to be building homes with no bedroom?

• Reference: 2019/20560
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Are you concerned about the potential impact on London of proposals announced by Secretary of State Robert Jenrick that would use “Permissions in Principle” to allow the demolition of commercial buildings to be rebuilt as residential, without requiring a full planning application?

• Reference: 2019/20561
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Housing and Planning Minister Esther McVey announced the Government will establish an “A-Team” of planning experts to help under-resourced local authority planning departments. Do you know how much money has been cut from London boroughs’ planning and building control departments since 2010?