Meanwhile, the new London Plan’s Examination in Public continues. This week has been quiet but next week is earmarked for three crucial sessions on some of the Plan’s most controversial components – housing requirements, strategy, supply assumptions and delivery targets. Detailed agendas and attendee lists for these have not yet been published but written submissions by a host of public bodies, private companies and civic society and amenity groups suggest that the proceedings will be contentious. Indicatively, outer London Boroughs such as Tory-led Hillingdon and – in a joint statement – Liberal Democrat Sutton, Richmond and Kingston along with Labour-led Merton, have all contested the London Plan’s emphasis on increasing the provision of new homes on small sites. Ominously, a submission by the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) reiterates concerns that the Plan’s methodology for assessing the capital’s housing need does not reflect ‘the full extent of housing need in London’ and recommends ‘committing to an early review of this London Plan’ soon after its adoption
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