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GOVE INTERVENES IN LONDON PLAN AS KHAN PLEDGES TO DOUBLE COUNCIL HOUSEBUILDING

By Daniel Gayne18 March 2024

   
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Housing secretary and London mayor continue battle over housing 

Michael Gove has told Sadiq Khan to review his London Plan on the same day the
mayor announced proposals to double levels of council house building by 2030. 

The housing secretary’s intervention is the latest move in a protracted battle
over housing policy with the Mayor of London, who is up for re-election this
spring for an unprecedented third term. 

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Sadiq Khan is facing increasing pressure from central government over his record
on housebuilding in the capital

It comes after a review commissioned by Gove found that the complexity of
policies in the London Plan was creating viability challenges for developers and
frustrating the delivery of new homes, particularly on brownfield sites.  

Khan has called that review a “desperate political stunt” and appeared alongside
Labour leader Keir Starmer this morning (Monday) to launch his election campaign
with a pledge to deliver 40,000 new council homes in the city by the end of the
decade. 

The figure is double his previous target, which he met last year. 

But while Khan was setting out his stall for the election, Gove’s letter from
the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) was hitting his
desk in City Hall. 

In it, Gove said his own changes to national policy on brownfield development
would not be sufficient to reverse the “chronic under-delivery” he alleged had
taken place under the mayor’s time in office which began in 2016. 

He invoked his powers under Section 340 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999
to direct the mayor to conduct a partial review to examine whether existing
policy is holding back development. 

According to the government, the rate of delivery needs to increase from an
average of 37,200 homes each year to 62,300 to meet targets set out in the plan.
 

The Greater London Authority has been asked to report back its findings and to
focus on two specific areas – industrial land and opportunity areas. 

According to the government, 736ha of industrial land in the capital could be
turned into housing but is stuck in a planning system that Gove believes is too
restrictive. 

DLUHC has also asked the mayor to ensure 47 areas identified as having the
potential to deliver at least 2,500 new homes – so-called “opportunity areas” –
are sufficiently targeted and to consider whether there is a role for a single
planning framework to accelerate housing.  

In the meantime, the boroughs of Newham and Greenwich will be given support by a
specialist team of planners which the government has created to work on complex
cases held up in the planning system. 

>> Gove and Khan’s row over London’s housing delivery numbers explained

DLUHC has put aside £500,000 to help the two local authorities unlock more than
7,000 homes. 

Earlier this year, the government announced £50m to regenerate London estates,
£4m, for housing delivery around Euston station and £125m to unlock three major
brownfield sites in London. 

Gove said that Londoners were being “let down” by the mayor and said action
already taken would help reverse this trend. 

“However, that alone will not build the homes we need, which is why I am now
directing the mayor to review aspects of the London Plan and announcing
specialist support on planning to help unlock thousands of homes,” he said. 

“I look forward to continuing to work with the Greater London Authority,
councils and the sector so we can get spades in the ground and deliver the homes
the capital needs.”  

Khan said he had “got London building again” as mayor and claimed that overall
housing completions had recently hit their highest level since the 1930s, with
council home building rates higher than at any time since the 1970s. 

“This includes starting twice as many council homes as the rest of the country
combined last year,” he said. 

“We’re building council housing at 10 times the rate of my Tory predecessor
[Boris Johnson], and affordable housing at treble the level it was when I first
became mayor. 

“But while we’ve been stepping up and hitting our housing targets, the Tories
have been letting us down and missing theirs.   

“At every turn, they have shown themselves to be blockers, not builders… more
interested in stoking culture wars than supplying quality housing.” 





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   After 14 years in government, 9 housing ministers, homelessness is now
   beginning to bite this government, the same party that devised RIGHT to BUY,
   stock sold off with up to 70% discount, with receipts of sales split between
   councils and the national purse.
   
   Now we have councils using very limited assets to buy back the same homes
   they gave away. Politics of the mad house, and yet no removal of the Right to
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