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• Reference: 2024/1012
• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Would you commit to appointing a London Cohousing Champion, with specific training, who can help guide and support cohousing groups in London, and provide a dedicated contact address for that resource, as well as acting as a cheerleader and troubleshooter for cohousing issues, as recommended in my new report, ‘Where We Belong: London's Cohousing Opportunity’?

• Reference: 2024/1014
• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Do you agree that the next version of the London Plan should include measures to encourage developers of major schemes to include cohousing as part of their developments, as recommended in my new report, ‘Where We Belong: London's Cohousing Opportunity’?

• Reference: 2024/1015
• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Would you support the creation of a revolving capital fund, similar to the existing GLA Land Fund, to help provide upfront funding to support cohousing schemes, as recommended in my new report, ‘Where We Belong: London's Cohousing Opportunity’?

• Reference: 2024/1016
• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

How many homes under the 2021-26 Affordable Homes Programme, funded by £4bn from the Government, do you expect to have started by the end of March 2024?

• Reference: 2024/1009
• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Do you recognise the specific challenges often faced by cohousing schemes with the standard affordable housing tenures, and would you commit to working with the Government to identify a bespoke affordable housing tenure that would be suitable for cohousing schemes and could attract grant, as recommended in my new report, ‘Where We Belong: London's Cohousing Opportunity’?

• Reference: 2024/1010
• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Would you commit to reviewing the GLA Group land portfolio to identify any potential sites that would be suitable for a cohousing scheme, as recommended in my new report, ‘Where We Belong: London's Cohousing Opportunity’?

• Reference: 2024/1011
• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Would you create or facilitate a register of suitable cohousing land in London to help match available land with interested groups, as recommended in my new report, ‘Where We Belong: London's Cohousing Opportunity’?

• Reference: 2024/1008
• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Do you agree that the next version of the London Plan should promote the benefits of cohousing, as recommended in my new report, ‘Where We Belong: London's Cohousing Opportunity’?

• Reference: 2024/0170
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Residents in Wennington in Havering, whose homes were destroyed in a fire last year, face being charged up to £10,000 in Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) to rebuild their homes, including around £3,000 from the Mayor of London CIL, unless they can commit to living in the home for three years after it is rebuilt. Could you please investigate this and use whatever exemptions are possible, such as discretionary relief, to waive the requirement for Mayoral CIL entirely for these properties, and encourage Havering Council to do the same with their local CIL?

• Reference: 2023/4071
• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

How much engagement did the Mayor have with Greenwich Council or the former leader, Denise Hyland, about the issues and potential resolutions to the Enderby wharf development?