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• Reference: 2015/2677
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

Can you confirm whether the £0.892 million of Right to Buy receipts allocated through MD 1281 to your Housing Covenant budget achieved your stated aim of a like-for-like replacement of the homes sold through Right to Buy?

• Reference: 2015/2678
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

Can you confirm whether the £0.892 million of Right to Buy receipts allocated through MD 1281 to your Housing Covenant budget was spent, or is it pooled with other covenant funding sources?

• Reference: 2015/2679
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

In MD 1528 you decided to transfer the remaining £10,422,400 of Right to Buy receipts, with interest, and the estimated £15m to be received in 2015-16, to be transferred to your Housing Covenant budget for allocation to affordable housing schemes. Can you confirm that this money will achieve a like-for-like replacement of the homes sold through Right to Buy, from which the receipts were gained?

• Reference: 2015/2680
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

Your planning report on application PDU/0833/01 saw the approval of 202 social rented homes to be provided on sites E-U of the Bermondsey Spa regeneration scheme. How many of these 202 homes are currently let as social rented units and how many as affordable rented units?

• Reference: 2015/2681
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

Your planning report on application PDU/2289/02 saw the approval of 123 social rented homes to be provided on site A of the Canada Water regeneration scheme. How many of these 123 homes are currently let as social rented units and how many as affordable rented units?

• Reference: 2015/2682
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

Bids for the 2015-18 Housing Covenant Programme were required to enter specific information about the proposed affordable rented homes, including a field labelled "Prospective rent per week inclusive of all charges (£)". Can you tell me the amount entered by Notting Hill Housing Trust in this field for the affordable rented homes to be built with this funding on the Aylesbury Estate, broken down by the number of bedrooms?

• Reference: 2015/2683
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

Research by the Federation of Master Builders found that two thirds of small builders surveyed had to turn down work for lack of skilled workers, and that there were particular shortages of bricklayers, carpenters and joiners, painters and decorators, and electricians in London. What are you doing to address these skills gaps, so that small builders can play a greater role in building more homes in London?

• Reference: 2015/2086
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Thank you for your answer to question 2015/1694. Will you ensure that information on smaller sites is well publicised, for example through the GLA web site, the Federation of Master Builders and borough planning departments, so smaller developers can make bids for them?

• Reference: 2015/2087
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Thank you for your answer to question 2015/1694. The Assembly's Housing Committee has previously found that disposal frameworks such as the London Development Panel weren't accessible to smaller developers, and involved bureaucracy suitable for very large sites but excessive for small sites. Will you examine how the disposal process can enable smaller developers to bid for small sites, looking at work by Birmingham Council on the disposal of garage sites as an example?

• Reference: 2015/2088
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Thank you for your answer to question 2015/1694. Will you encourage those involved in the sift for sites to seek out and identify sites suitable for 10 units or fewer, which would be of most interest to smaller developers, in the interest of diversifying the industry?