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• Reference: 2021/1235
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

In May 2020, a new pilot scheme was launched across four Met BCUs, enabling colleagues from London’s Fire Brigade (LFB) to assist the London Ambulance Service (LAS) for ‘collapsed behind locked doors’. For each of the BCUs involved, how many times has this been done?

• Reference: 2020/1517
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 21 May 2020

Could you please confirm that the assumptions, in Croydon’s Local Plan Review, of a London Plan housing target of 29,490 units and small sites target of 15,110 units are now out of date, with both targets having been reduced by 8,700 units? Would you agree that councils should base their local plans on the most up to date housing targets, and will you advise Croydon Council to this effect?

• Reference: 2019/20256
• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Are you satisfied with your progress in delivering the housing Londoners need?

• Reference: 2019/20257
• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Are you completely satisfied with your record on affordable housing delivery?

• Reference: 2019/20276
• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Will you give your unequivocal commitment to Londoners, particularly those in outer boroughs, that you will do everything within your power to protect the city’s greenbelt?

• Reference: 2019/19791
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 17 October 2019

Your answer to Question 2019/8976 on 17 May 2019 indicated you are currently preparing a detailed Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) to accompany the London Plan policy that will provide additional detail on how to effectively optimise housing potential using the design led approach. Can you indicate when you intend to publish this Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG), providing guidance on assessing appropriate housing and residential densities for new housing developments?

• Reference: 2019/17453
• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Are your housing policies workable for Londoners?

• Reference: 2019/17474
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Further to your response to question 2019/8973, the second paragraph of your response states: “My draft London Plan explicitly recognises that the appropriate density of a site is an output of a process of assessment, rather than an input.” Policy D6 at D States: The following measurements of density should be provided for all planning applications that include new residential units: 1) number of units per hectare 2) number of habitable rooms per hectare 3) number or bedrooms per hectare 4) number of bedspaces per hectare. Policy D6 does not define the process by which to analyse these parameters to...

• Reference: 2019/17533
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Further to your response to question 2019/8973, the first paragraph of your answer related to the current Policy 3.4 which includes a density matrix but did not answer the question on Policy D6 which requested why Policy D6 does not give guidance to applicants for the appropriate densities for development proposals at given localities and therefore does not meet the requirements of NPPF para 16 and 122. 16. Plans should: d) contain policies that are clearly written and unambiguous, so it is evident how a decision maker should react to development proposals; 122. Planning policies and decisions should support development...

• Reference: 2019/12329
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

Your answer to Question 2019/8974 relating to the Policy D6 using a “design-led-approach” does not provide a detailed methodology to evaluate “Site Context” or a methodology to evaluate the “Capacity of Supporting Infrastructure” or a methodology to evaluate the “Planned Connectivity by Walking, Cycling and Public Transport Availability”. These contributing factors are vague and subjective parameter descriptions which would be extremely difficult to define whether a proposal was acceptable or unacceptable as there are no conclusive definitions of the parameters contributing to this “Design-led-approach” criterion or for the analysis of these factors which could indicate whether a proposal was acceptable...