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Blog: LSE London
Originally published on LSE British Policy & Politics blog The Government's housing policy has been focussed on building 300,000 new homes a year. That target hasn't been reached, and even if it had been, it would still not be enough to address the current housing crisis. Christine Whitehead and Tony Crook argue that the new Government should adopt a … Continued
Blog: LSE London
"London goes beyond any boundary or convention. It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London." Peter Ackroyd, "London: The Biography" (Chatto and Windus, 2000) Representing the infinities of London within a finite set of statutory … Continued
Blog: LSE London
Originally published on LSE British Policy & Politics blog The constant flux of Government asylum policy makes work very difficult for local authorities. Melissa Weihmayer argues that the Government should instead treat councils as equal partners who can help support asylum seekers in ways the Home Office can't. The number of asylum-seekers housed in London has increased … Continued
Blog: LSE London
HERE you can access Catriona Riddell's presentation "London and the Wider South East: Current strategic planning context" as part of LSE London's roundtables' series "Strengthening the Strategic Core of London Plans"
Blog: LSE London
When the GLA was originally conceived in the late 1990s its agenda involved a plethora of strategies with apparently independent focuses – economic, transport, environmental, spatial etc. Ken Livingstone as first Mayor sought to rationalise this by relabeling the spatial strategy as A London Plan, which would embody an integration of all of the other … Continued
Blog: LSE London
Addressing the issue of effective engagement with bodies in the Wider South East, we have to recognise the very different planning and development regimes which exist in Greater London and the wider region. In London, the GLA Act 1999 places a requirement on the elected London Mayor to produce a Spatial Development Strategy (which became … Continued
Blog: LSE London
Recent political exchanges between the Government and the GLA have focused on a large gap between targets and achievement in housing output during the current Mayor's tenure [1]. From our perspective in this LSE London event series, the surfacing of this issue really reflects much broader and longer term problems with performance of the strategic planning role … Continued
Blog: LSE London
The current housing crisis Our current housing crisis has many facets. There are too few homes for everyone, those there are can be unaffordable, and intergeneration inequalities in housing costs and wealth are more pronounced that at any other time in the postwar era. Meanwhile home ownership is falling, while the insecure private rented sector … Continued
Blog: LSE London
There will be a future while we might wish we didn't have to start from where we are. Plans are there to try to anticipate and change its shape. We have local Plans in England, Scotland and Wales (parts of the United Kingdom – though the future is not guaranteed). Speaking of England, we can … Continued
Blog: LSE London
The LSE London Debates have raised, amongst many other things, the question of what future the Mayor, the GLA and the Boroughs should be planning for: including who will 'need' London and who won't, in business terms. I look here particularly at the City, but similar issues and analysis apply to the West End and … Continued
Blog: LSE London
Presentations from the Roundtables: (1) Looking back: How and what can we learn from experience with the present (2018-21) London Plan and the 4 previous rounds Ian Gordon ; James Stevens ; Catriona Riddell (2) Looking forward: What needs to be changed for the next round Jack Maizels ; Michael Edwards ; Ben Corr ; Alexander Jan Other resources: GLA Planning For London Programme 2022-24 Both … Continued
Blog: LSE London
A point of entry for a first LSE London roundtable on responding to old/new challenges Introduction Under the structure introduced in 2000, London Mayors are obliged to prepare (and review) a series of strategies, including one on spatial development – which under the first Mayor (Ken Livingstone) morphed into a "London Plan", intended to … Continued
Blog: LSE London
Summary report of two half day LSE London Roundtables, 20th and 27th October 2023. Purpose and Organisation of the Roundtables To advance discussion about how the GLA's strategic planning role could be enhanced, during the hiatus in London Plan review work occasioned by the delayed Mayoral election, LSE London organised a pair of half … Continued
Blog: LSE London
Financialization of housing has been an issue since at least the 1980s when technology improved information and efficiency in finance markets. This in turn enabled large scale international flows of funds. But it became much more obviously an issue after the Global Financial Crisis and the introduction of Quantitative Easing in many countries which led … Continued
Blog: LSE London
LSE London launched a new report, commissioned by the Family Building Society on "Achieving a more coherent and consistent approach to housing policy" in Parliament on Monday 5 June 2023. The report sets out the need for a coherent and integrated housing policy instead of the siloed approach which currently dominates. The research leading to the … Continued