Friday 23 January. This consultation is now closed. Our Just Space responses to the Mayor and to MHCLG are here. It is a devastating expose of wrong-headed proposals. Some other responses are at the foot of the page.
Just Space response to Mayor
Just Space response to MHCLG
Despite 90,000 homeless children and 300,000 people on housing waiting lists across London, Mayor Sadiq Khan is consulting on proposals to reduce the amount of affordable and social rent housing developers are required to provide! The government is consulting on related proposals to let some developers make less contributions to local infrastructure.
The consultation on a package of measures to help developers ends this Thurs 22nd Jan – and we’re urging everyone to submit a strong objection.
Attached are two briefings:
A simple briefing explaining the GLA City Hall proposals and how to object
A briefing on the MHCLG consulttaion on reducing CIL and increasing the Mayor’s powers.
Later (22 January): the deadline is tonight. Here are more submissions which you may find stimulating as you prepare your own comments:
Michael Edwards
Robin Brown
Highbury Group to GLA
Highbury Group to MHCLG
HBF to GLA
HBF to MHCLG
London Forum to MHCLG
London Forum to GLA
Zoẽ Garbett AM
Next day comes a brilliant article in the Financial Times by Britain’s best housing journaliist Pete Apps. It’s not about the London proposals but a broad welcome to the slowdown in housebuilding and falling prices. This could be the beginning of the end of house prices escalation. If you are able to read this article, do.
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