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• Reference: 2019/17052
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

Could you provide the average sale price, average share purchased, and average household income for Shared Ownership properties in the LLDC in each of the last five years?

• Reference: 2019/17053
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

Do you have an estimate of how many properties within the LLDC are being let on short-term lettings platforms such as Airbnb?

• Reference: 2019/17054
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

Could you provide the total amount of grant funding given by the GLA towards affordable housing in the LLDC, and the total number of units started, broken down by tenure, in each of the past five years?

• Reference: 2019/17055
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

How much money did LLDC receive in total through the Section 106 agreement for the “Manhattan Loft Gardens” scheme, and what was the on-site and off-site affordable housing contribution? Could you confirm also that the scheme is on land owned by the Department for Transport?

• Reference: 2019/17303
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

Could you provide the average sale price of private market homes in the LLDC in each of the last five years?

• Reference: 2019/14464
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Can a new home let as London Living Rent be resold/re-let as Shared Ownership if the original tenants decide to move out? And vice-versa, can a Shared Ownership home subsequently be let as a London Living Rent property? If so, how will this be recorded in your data?

• Reference: 2019/14465
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

The City Hall web page on London Living Rent (LLR) states, “The GLA publishes maximum monthly rents by number of bedrooms for new LLR homes (inclusive of service charges) in every ward in London, and updates these figures each September.” Could you confirm that London Living Rent levels do indeed include service charge? If so, would it not be right for London Shared Ownership service charges to be included in the rental portion too?

• Reference: 2019/14466
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

The Government has committed to ending leasehold for all new houses (but not flats), and capping ground rents on new leases to £0. London has a much higher proportion of people living in flats and new build flats than the rest of the country though, so would you work with Government to explore alternatives to leasehold – such as commonhold – so that new build owners in London are not disadvantaged compared to the rest of the country?

• Reference: 2019/14467
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Following your responses to questions 2019/6235 and 2019/6236, I welcome your work to encourage boroughs to take up funding for new or remodelled Gypsy and Traveller sites and pitches. However, your response shows that since 2007/08, only 24 new pitches have been provided. The need identified in your new London Plan was for 484. Additional pitches have only been provided in 7 boroughs in the past ten years, while there is an identified need in 30 London Boroughs. Would you consider setting aside a specific funding pot for Gypsy and Traveller accommodation given that recent delivery has been so low?

• Reference: 2019/14468
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Could you provide the number of affordable housing acquisitions – as distinct from new build starts and completions – that the GLA has funded in each of the last five years, broken down by London Borough, and including the total amount of grant given in each case.