Islington Council has purchased huge swathes of temporary accommodation as it attempts to get a grip on soaring demand for homelessness support, a recent...
Tag - housing
City Hall has defended its “pragmatic” approach to building new developments on high quality green belt sites across London amid accusations of carving up land...
Handing over control of Network Rail land in London to Sadiq Khan could see 535,000 homes built around stations in inner boroughs and over a million across the...
Mass retrofitting of London’s overheating homes must be done quickly to avoid putting over one million children at risk of health issues, the Mayor has been...
Developers are incentivised to build too many one and two-bedroom properties in London instead of the family-sized homes that the capital desperately needs...
Sadiq Khan is set to fall far short of ministerial targets for affordable homes in London barring a miraculous uptick in housing starts over the next three...
London will aim far lower than the Government’s housing targets for the capital over the next decade, the Mayor’s new spatial development strategy has...
Onerous planning processes are preventing London from potentially adding 320,000 new homes across the capital by expanding buildings upwards, the London...
City Hall’s own land and property company may struggle to hit their own housing ambitions due to “difficult” circumstances, officials have admitted.
Ultra-wealthy foreign investors are artificially inflating London’s housing market by leaving homes empty and pushing residents to the outskirts of the city...
The Mayor of London has fallen short of the revised affordable housing target set by the Government by thousands of homes, it has emerged.
Labour-run Islington council has echoed opposition to the Mayor slashing affordable housing targets in the capital, following a legal challenge launched by...
Mayor admits developers must use ‘every tool’ as calls grow for air conditioning in new London homes
The Mayor of London may be leaning towards removing guidance in the new London Plan that effectively blocks air conditioning from being installed in newbuild...
More than a million homes in London may need significant upgrades to help curb the capital’s overheating crisis, the London Assembly has heard.
London’s empty homes catastrophe must be addressed on the path to solving the wider housing crisis in the capital, the London Assembly has been told.
Islington Council must pay £2,700 to a homeless woman it left stranded for several months while she was awaiting surgery for her chronic health condition.
Ordinary repairs are being delayed for the City of London Corporation’s social homes after a major contractor suspended its services.
The Mayor of London and ministers must intervene to stop the collapse of Build-to- Rent (BTR) properties across the capital, business groups have warned.
Just 6,325 private sector homes broke ground in London in the first three months of 2026, new data has revealed – equivalent to seven per cent of the Mayor’s...
The next London Plan will be “streamlined” to ensure new housing schemes flourish across the capital, City Hall have said.
Islington Council’s leader has named her new deputy and appointed several other councillors to new jobs in her post-election reshuffle.
City Hall will launch a probe into how high service charges are impacting London’s housing crisis, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) can reveal.
New data has revealed where living alone takes up the biggest proportion of a single person's salary, and surprisingly London isn’t top of the list.
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