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• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much, Chair. My question is to Lyn to begin with. I want to ask about the issue with changing the housing tenures in planning applications. One of the residents has raised concerns with me about developers applying to change the planning permission they have for residential development into student accommodation. It is plot N16 in East Village. It is Get Living. They plan to replace 188 homes with 520 student beds. Included in those 188 homes in the existing planning application, we would lose 31 three-bedroom family homes. Also, you have loads of student...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much, Chair. My first question is also to the Deputy Mayor. In terms of going for the Games in the first place, if [Sir] Peter Hendy had not quoted Ken Livingstone , I would have done because it really is crucial that we did not go for it on the point of sport; we did it because development of the East End was the main point. That quote from Ken Livingstone ends with, “Build the housing”. Therefore I want to ask about housing and particularly overcrowding. Within the convergence framework that resulted, there were...

• Reference: 2016/1845
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

In his manifesto, the Mayor wrote that "it is vital that we look at developing new forms of housing to meet the future needs of the capital, such as community land trusts, co-housing, and housing which allows older Londoners to downsize." Will you pilot some of these models on surplus TfL land?

• Reference: 2016/1846
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Where surplus TfL land is currently occupied by businesses and residents likely to be affected by redevelopment plans, will you ensure that TfL carries out a full and transparent consultation?