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• Reference: 2016/4500
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

What are you doing to deal with rogue private sector landlords?

• Reference: 2016/4501
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

What progress is being made with AirBnB to ensure that properties are not let through them for longer than planning requirements permit?

• Reference: 2016/4502
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

What steps are you taking to deal with estate agents' fees charged to tenants seeking a private sector rental?

• Reference: 2016/4503
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

What steps are you taking to ensure that Barratts and Family Mosaic housing deal properly and promptly with repairs to lifts and heating and hot water systems amongst other issues and only raise fair service charges for residents in the Stonegrove regeneration, Barnet, partly funded by the GLA ?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

Andrew Dismore AM: I wanted to come to the issue of land banking. The previous Mayor stated: “To constrict supply to push up prices by land banking is plainly against the economic interests of this city.” Sadiq [Khan, Mayor of London] said in the manifesto: “Exercise use-it-or-lose-it powers to make sure developers who have planning permission build homes and do not land bank.” There seems to be a degree of consensus about the issue. How do you think the DCLG could support the GLA in tackling land banking? For example, one option would be to allow planning authorities to, if...

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

David Kurten AM: I do want to ask you about something, maybe a different area, which is about the balance between getting the new housing that London needs and also protecting our culture and our heritage. There are a couple of reports that I have seen over the last couple of months and constituents have written to me of some disturbing issues in London with the drive to build extra houses and one of them concerns the view of St Paul’s Cathedral. Off the top of my head there are 37 protected views of St Paul’s Cathedral and reports recently...