Transcript Housing in London - the Mayor`s new role

Housing in London – the
Mayor’s new role
Alan Benson - GLA
Overview
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The strategic drivers
Housing need and supply
The devolution of housing powers
Towards the Mayor’s Housing Strategy
The strategic drivers
The case for London
• London’s economy drives Britain’s
economy - is not in competition with it
• Housing is a threat to London’s economic
growth and social wellbeing
• Need to increase supply and improve
quality
• Need for investment in infrastructure to
maximise major opportunities
London’s demography
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1901 1911 1921 1931 1941 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001
Population
Households
UK AHS
Average household size
Population & households (m)
London population 1901-2001
New home building
3+ bed new homes
London
South East
South West
East
West Mids
East Mids
Yorks+H
North West
North East
1991/2
26%
49%
49%
50%
59%
64%
67%
71%
75%
2003/4
19%
58%
63%
69%
63%
76%
65%
70%
79%
Homelessness
65,000
60,000
55,000
50,000
45,000
40,000
35,000
30,000
25,000
20,000
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Number of households
Supply, demand and temporary accommodation
Homeless households in TA
Homeless acceptances
New social lettings
Overcrowding
Percentage of households
Severe overcrowding
2.50
2.00
1.50
1.00
0.50
0.00
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London
Rest of England
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Affordability ratios
Income inequality
Income distribution of Londoners
on UK quintiles (AHC) - 2000/01
40%
20%
0%
Bottom fifth
Next fifth
Middle fifth
Next fifth
National income quintiles after housing costs
Top fifth
Climate change
Housing need
and supply
Housing need
• Need 35,400 new homes per annum
• 66% should be affordable
• Social housing
• 42% of new social should be 4 bed plus
• Market
• 34% of new market should be 3 bed plus
• Intermediate
• little demonstrable “need” – requires policy
steer
London’s housing capacity
The London Plan
 London Plan targets
• 30,500 homes
• 50% affordable (70/30 social:intermediate)
• 100% lifetime, 10% wheelchair accessible
 London Plan delivery of new homes
- 1999: 17,000
- 2005/6: 24,000 (new) 28,000 (total)
 Affordable homes
- 1999: 6,000
- 2005/6: 8,000 (new) 12,000 (total)
 But concerns over mix and size
Millions
Residential land prices
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England and Wales
excluding London
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Inner and Outer London
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South East England
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Source: VOA
The planning pipeline
Approvals
Completions
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Year
2004/5
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Net Additional Dwellings
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Residential construction
London's residential construction sector,
1995-1999
35 Others
35%
Barratt
12%
Fairview
12%
Bellway
6%
St George
8%
Next Five Largest
19%
Berkeley (exc St.George)
8%
Ownership of land with residential planning
permission by number of schemes with private
units
Devolution of housing powers
The road to housing devolution
• Feb 2003: Communities Plan
• Introduced regional housing strategies
• Set up Regional Housing Boards
• Jun 2003: LHB set up and first London
Housing Strategy published
• Mar 2004: HMT Barker Review - recommends
merging regional housing and planning
• Nov 2006: GLA Bill - Review of Mayor’s
powers
• Oct 2007?: New powers commence
Review of Powers - other areas
• Planning
• Power to ensure local development plans
are in compliance with London Plan
• Positive powers on strategic planning
applications
• Other strategies
• Adult skills strategy
• Energy and climate change strategy
• Health inequalities strategy
New housing powers
• The responsibilities of the London
Housing Board will transfer to the Mayor
• Mayor will publish a statutory Housing
Strategy and Strategic Housing Investment
Plan
• Mayor will decide the broad distribution of
the affordable housing part of the Regional
Housing Pot
Strategic powers
• Local housing strategies will be required to be
in general conformity, includes:
• “any strategy [or] other statement of the local
housing authority’s policies or proposals related to
housing”
• Implementation model is existing statutory
strategies not London Plan
• Need to clarify “reach”
• Need to consider sub-regional position
Investment powers – the RHP
(1) Apportioning the
overall pot
(2a) The council
decent homes
programme
(2b) The HC
affordable housing
programme
(2c) Other funding:
estate regen, private
sector renewal etc)
(Based on 2006/8 figs)
£2,300m
The Mayor will have the
same powers as the LHB
£420m
The Mayor will not be
involved
£1760m
The Mayor will make
decisions on the broad
allocation
£120m
The Mayor will have the
same powers as the LHB
Strategic Housing Investment Plan
• Drawn up and agreed by all key agencies
- (GLA, LDA, HC, EP, TfL, LTG DC, GOL, LCs)
• Ambitious aims:
• Cover all housing related investment
• Set out common priorities
• Align the activities of public sector investors
• Maximise private sector leverage
• Co-ordinate housing and infrastructure investment
• Framework for innovative delivery models
Timetable
Nov 2006 - Queen’s Speech
Nov 2006 - “Towards the Mayor’s Housing Strategy”
Feb 2007 - Consultation on this closes
May 2007 - GLA Bill gets Royal Assent
Jun 2007 - Draft (non-statutory) Housing Strategy
Jul 2007 - Strategic Housing Investment Plan
Aug 2007 - Comprehensive Spending Review
Oct 2007 - GLA Bill commencement
2007/08 - Statutory consultation on Housing
Strategy and Strategic Investment Plan
Housing structures
• Strategy
• Renewed Mayor’s Housing Forum
• Sub-groups to engage wider specialists
• Equalities Standing Group
• Investment
• Housing Investment Panel
• Developer engagement
• Scrutiny - London Assembly
Towards the Mayor’s
Housing Strategy
Key issues for new strategy
• Putting people first
• delivering housing’s enabling role
• Building more homes
• tackling the barriers to delivery
• The right homes in the right places
• shifting the mix – spatial/tenure/size
• Creating places where people want to live
• design led development
Key issues for new strategy
• Reviewing intermediate housing
• is it giving us what we want?
• Promoting choice and mobility
• better matching need and demand
• Tackling climate change
• top priority for change
• Other issues
• list is not exhaustive
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