READ MORE 10 most reliable and unreliable cars in UK – and it’s bad news for millions<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nSir Sadiq added: \u201cWhat I have said to the Government is: let\u2019s have a frank conversation about what we can do. I\u2019ll go into those conversations with an attitude of \u2018nothing is off the table\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really important that we understand our city faces a housing crisis. That includes the fact there is an affordability crisis. Londoners have been priced out of our city for too long. We have got to increase the supply of housing in London to meet the demand.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have broken records in terms of homes completed, and numbers of council homes being built. At the same time, we have got to recognise that across the country, housing starts have fallen off a cliff.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn London, what I want to do is get a bespoke agreement with the Government. That could be freeing up regulation, changing rules in relation to planning to try to kick-start housebuilding in London. It\u2019s really important that we do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRoughly speaking, 94 per cent of new homes in London are flats, but we know we have more than double the amount of high-rise buildings than the rest of the country put together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I\u2019m speaking to the Government about, after listening to developers and others, is: is it possible, in these exceptional circumstances, to try to turbo-charge housebuilding in London?<\/p>\n
\u201cThose conversations are ongoing, and hopefully over the course of the next few weeks I\u2019m hoping to come to an agreement with the Government about what we can do to kick-start housebuilding in London.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mayor has warned the requirement for 35 per cent of new homes to be affordable has brought…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,6333,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-475540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-housing","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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New build home rule in England could be scrapped in ‘next few weeks’<\/p>\n