Mayor’s ‘Unrealistic’ Housing Targets Will Encourage Bad Development

The Mayor of London’s “unrealistic” target for 60,000 new homes a year hands developers with unsuitable proposals a stick with which to beat local planners, say London Tenants Federation (LTF). LTF highlight that the new London Plan’s annual housing target is more than double what London boroughs have managed to achieve, on average, since 2005. Broken down, the Mayor proposes a ten-year target, equating to 64,935 new home per year, with the London-wide annual average being just 30,000, with only 13% of those being homes for social rent. On this policy, the group argues this high target will place pressure on the boroughs to approve residential developments regardless of their effect on local quality of life, and regardless of whether they meet evidenced local housing need. Read more on 24housing.

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