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• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Hina Bokhari AM: Shared ownership has been a key part of London’s housing and planning model for the last two decades. Today I want to ask questions about how it is working for ordinary Londoners. I will start by asking Deputy Mayor Jules Pipe about planning for shared ownership homes in mixed developments. There were widespread reports recently of residents enjoying the world’s first swimming pool suspended between two buildings at the Embassy Gardens development in Wandsworth. However, the benefits of this facility are not equal as the shared owners in the building are not allowed to access it. This...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Siân Berry AM: My questions are to the Deputy Mayor for Housing and Residential Development. I have two issues to raise with you about the more ground‑up activities under your remit. First of all, the London Housing Panel was set up in 2019 to provide London’s voluntary and community sector organisations with a structured forum to consider housing issues and engage in dialogue with the Mayor, the Assembly and other decision makers. You have said now, just two years later, that it will have its funding removed next March [2022]. I want to ask today whether you would reconsider this...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Tony Devenish AM: Good morning, Deputy Mayor Copley. On what date will you have finished all 116,000 affordable homes that you were meant to have started five years ago?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Léonie Cooper AM: My question is for Deputy Mayor Tom Copley. Maybe we should have a little reset in terms of levels of politeness. The 2016 Affordable Housing Programme will build 116,000 affordable homes for £4.82 billion while the 2021 Affordable Housing Programme will build 82,000 for £4 billion. I just heard you mention rising building costs and so I am sure that is one of the reasons, but why does it cost just under £49,000 to fund an affordable home today when it cost £41,500 in 2016? What has changed?

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Shaun Bailey AM: Good morning, Deputy Mayor. It is nice to see you again. I just want to ask you a few very simple questions. How many GLA‑funded affordable homes do you intend to build each year?

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Neil Garratt AM: Good morning. I would like to ask a question to Deputy Mayor Pipe, if I may, about family housing. It seems to me that if we are mainly building one and two‑bedroom properties, then that is what families will be living in, and they will be living in overcrowded conditions in those flats. We have seen particularly over the last year how big a problem that can be. People often imagine they are going to move out of inner London into outer London when they start a family, and they might be surprised to discover that that...

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Caroline Russell AM: I want to put my question to Daniel Bridge, the Programme Director for the Royal Docks team. City Airport sits in the heart of the Royal Docks Enterprise Zone. What impact is it having on the health of people already living in the area, and are you doing any work to address this?

• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Zack Polanski AM: My question is also for Daniel. I am speaking to you from the Chamber at City Hall, which is on one of the more notorious public‑private spaces, More London, and we are shortly going to be moving to The Crystal. My first question is: who actually owns the land that The Crystal is on? Is it one of the GLA’s pocket strategic development sites? Is it owned by the developer Advanced Business Park? Is it someone else entirely?

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Anne Clarke AM: My first question is to Deputy Mayor Copley. How can Londoners be better served by the current system of temporary accommodation?

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Sakina Sheikh AM: Good morning. My question is to Deputy Mayor Jules Pipe, regarding building safety. For many of us, particularly the victims’ families, Grenfell Tower is scarred into our memories and the pursuit for justice continues. The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 report found that in the context of national legislation there was compelling evidence ‑ and I quote ‑ that, “[T]he external walls of the building failed to comply with Requirement B4(1) of Schedule 1 to the Building Regulations 2010, in that they did not adequately resist the spread of the fire having regard to the height, use...