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• Reference: 2023/4446
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

In the letter from Tajmina Jetha, Head of Programme Management, Housing and Land, to the Chair of the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee, dated 25 October 2023, it said: “A total of 1,105 completed homes were via Right to Buy Back projects, 108 completions in 2021-22 and 938 completed homes in 2022-23 and 59 in Q1 of 2023-24.” Were all these funded from the Affordable Homes Programme 2016-23 and, if so, what was the total funding from this programme? If not, how many were funded from the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 and what was the total funding from this...

• Reference: 2023/4447
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

In the letter from Tajmina Jetha, Head of Programme Management, Housing and Land, to the Chair of the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee, dated 25 October 2023, it said: “the GLA is estimating that £173.5m of the funding approved for projects in the Affordable Housing Programme 2021-26 will be applied to homes replacing obsolete units.” What percentage of the total funding in the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 is this £173.5 million?

• Reference: 2023/4383
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

How long should Londoners have to wait to get an affordable, secure cycle parking space near their home?

• Reference: 2023/4420
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

From the grant funding provided by the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26, could you tell me: a) how many social rent homes will be demolished and rebuilt, b) the number of social rent homes funded in addition to these replacements, and c) what uplift you project to achieve in total square metres through demolition and rebuilding, excluding the additional homes in part b)?

• Reference: 2023/4421
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

In your letter to the Chair of the London Assembly Housing Committee in response to its investigation into the Affordable Homes Programme 2016-23 (AHP 2016-23), with regard to data on acquisitions, you said: “GLA project information does not include details of whether the acquisitions are new builds that have been converted.” Could you ask GLA project teams to start collating this information for outstanding completions from the AHP 2016-23 and for all developments funded by the AHP 2021-26?

• Reference: 2023/4422
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Thank you for answers to my previous question 2021/3544, in which you said: “My housing team will consider how additional text on this specific webpage can improve Londoner’s access to information.” However, it appears that no changes have been made since my questions from 2021, as neither the Delegated Approvals Log nor the live GLA spreadsheet: April 2016 onwards GLA Affordable Housing Programmes - Additional Allocation Approvals, provide titles for developments or estates to enable residents to pinpoint such funding. Could a column for estate name, development title or planning application number be added to make it easier for local...

• Reference: 2023/4423
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

At the Housing Committee meeting on 19 October 2023, the Deputy Mayor for Housing and Residential Development said that the proportion of acquisitions in the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 (AHP 2021-26) is capped at 30 per cent of overall homes, raised from a previous cap of 10 per cent. Could you tell me how many of these homes will be acquisitions to convert to social rent homes and how many will be homes for demolition?

• Reference: 2023/4424
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Given the success of your Right to Buy-back programme, are you planning to fund any more acquisitions like this in 2024-25 in addition to those using grant from the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 (AHP 2021-26)?

• Reference: 2023/4425
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

What funding do you expect from Government in 2024-25 to support community-led housing and what are you planning to do within your own budgets to supplement this?

• Reference: 2023/4426
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Transport for London (TfL) has removed text from its page on the Silvertown Road Tunnel, which said there was to be a plan to help businesses adapt to tolls at the Blackwall and Silvertown road tunnels, as specified in section 21 of schedule 2 in the Silvertown Tunnel Order (2018). What is the current plan and timetable for transitional support for local businesses and when will details be published?