Planning our future London

stop building luxury flats for the rich and for property developers- build flats for LONDONERS! A criteria should be London birth - why should we and our young people have to leave the areas they grew up in in order to have a roof over their heads. 
And please don’t tell me that you give 10% of flats built to social housing - you don’t. We have to start helping our young - otherwise we lose as a society! 

We desperately need more social and cheap long term housing. I’m watching my daughter living in horrible, unsafe and outrageously expensive awful rooms just to be able to work and live in London. 
she is 23yrs old and doesn’t want a mortgage yet. Why should she? However she is already talking about leaving the country and working somewhere where housing isn’t an issue - this leading to a brain drain .. as our young educated people look for a higher standard of living elsewhere. Can we blame them? 
A studio or one bedroom flat at under £1000 a month should not be an issue, but it is. Sadiq Khan. You have to do something about this - so much brown belt land! Build on it - let people have the right to a home! Because this is currently unacceptable. 

Compared to other major cities, London doesn't really have that many tall buildings, especially for housing. I wouldn't mind if this changed - London, and Londoners, can't continue to function without good housing. Greater housing density would mean the need for more supermarkets, daycare nurseries, schools, and local transport capacity. Basically, build communities, not just buildings. 

TfL has an enormous amount of land. This coupled with the Mayor's commitments to building more truly affordable housing seems like a win-win. Much of the land is likely to be near good transport routes. Why not show the way and build some really major projects on this land?

We need council housing for rent and equity transfer where people pay rent over years and eventually own their own home. We also need to exclude cyclists from pavements, make them not cross pedestrian crossings on the pedestrian right of way and register them with councils and ban e scooters as Paris has

London is the place to be for businesses, young people looking for work, and for anyone looking for job prospects however the housing market is ridiculous. Anyone looking to rent could spend up to 50% of their pay on a home which isn’t that big or in a good location. Also, I think more people would live on the outskirts of the city if transport prices weren’t so extortionate as trains into London can be an extremely high price so this is also something to look into.

I believe the best places to build new housing are on current brownfield sites without compromising any further green spaces. A lower price is one of the most important factors to consider taking into account the multiple jobs that are available. Space is also an important factor but given there is limited space in London so this may not always be possible with housing. 
 

Regarding the high and low building question, as long as there are no green spaces being compromised then I do not think this matters however being in a house than a flat I believe is more desirable to Londoners.

What would be good to look into is are there any buildings that are empty in London with no one living in them because the price is unaffordable as that would be interesting to understand.

People need somewhere affordable and comfortable to live. But we also need to feel connected to each other and part of a community. Loneliness is a growing issue and our working lives are changing with more people working from home.

Well designed housing can help to solve this issue by fostering interaction and community. I'm thinking of council housing circa 60s and 70s in Camden, designed by Neave Brown - low-rise high-density housing. For example Winscombe Street which Brown conceived not as a collection of individual dwellings but “as a community, an extended family".

We have the talent and the will to design attractive, affordable housing that brings us together, perhaps with communal work spaces as well as communal gardens and maybe even communal eating areas.

We should be building tower blocks all over London. Tower blocks on top of Tube stations, over car parks, etc. It’s the only way to bring down house prices and rents, or even arrest their rise.

there is no need to add additional parking - just make sure you have good public transport links. There is no good reason to lock people into car dependency for the future, we’ve learnt now what a terrible idea that is.

Expansion IS the only answer. The GLA is to control all areas that are in the London dormitory. A radius of 20 miles from Charing Cross is a good starting point. This is needed so the professionals can plan the infrastructure and not the many Cowboys councillors.

A significant amount of housing is required, both private and social. There needs to be a way to ensure that unused land which is suitable gets priority to be converted into housing. 
 

Parking a new bus services need to be planned around new developments. 
 

if there is a housing crisis, stop building 1-2 storey buildings. If land is an issue and you can’t build out build up instead! But make sure if you do build up that there are suitable facilities for families. 3 bedroom flats with lifts that don’t smell of urine and green spaces and parks below. 

Housing is an issue I've long felt passionately about. The fact that we're done of the richest nations in earth and London the wealthiest city yet we still have people who are homeless is shameful. The other chief factor and one that contributes to homelessness is the extremely high cost of housing in the capital. There are various factors that influence the price of housing. First and foremost is the shortage of housing stock and in particular social and affordable housing. The prevalence of house ownership, housing speculation and housing as investment all contribute further to the high cost of housing. The French have laws that discourage speculation by charging very high taxes on house sales made within five years of purchase. The Germans have extensive laws protecting tenants against rent increases and governing fair rents. In the USA you are considered below the poverty line if you spend more than ⅓ of your income on rent. Ideally you shouldn't be paying more than ¼, yet almost everyone I know is spending nearer ½ their income or sharing, quite a few both. We desperately need to build more affordable housing and should be using brownfield sights for this, repurposing empty or unused office and industrial buildings and thinking up alternative solutions. For example a form of communal housing I have heard of and seen reports of feature individual spacious living quarters in a high rise with, on each floor, a well equipped large kitchen, a common room, showers, bathrooms and utility rooms that are shared. The building also offers a communal gym, swimming pool and games room. They are highly desirable for the right kind of people and, due to the high degree of sociability among residents are very secure and energy efficient. Thatcher's sale of council housing exacerbated the problem severely & was an unmitigated disaster, so this week not be solved easily or quickly.

Need to build more houses to sustain London - I like the idea to have street level votes on rebuilding with high quality dense (4-7 floor) housing. Dense housing with supporting infrastructure is the only way this gets better. The more you put in, the more disposable income Londoners will have and the easier it will be to attract talent to the area without fear that they are priced out, so businesses can thrive. 

In my area, scores of expensive high rise flats are being built (over ten on one road) while no public transport is provided. There is one train station (not tube or overground) with 4 trains an hour, and street parking will be all but gone from the area soon. Those who have purchased the newer flats or rent there won’t be allowed to even apply for car permits, while older high rises with parking, can. 
Affordable housing is a desperate need in our city and it also needs to come with appropriate local infrastructure changes. No one can hurl up thousands of flats in areas with barely any transport and expect it to go well. South London and especially south east London needs better tube connections. 

Housing is a need, not an optional desire and our current form of capitalism lazily exploits this with complicity with government and local government regulatory frameworks. Housing is also the number 1 contributor to quality of life. Solving this crisis needs a mix of approaches. Fundamentally, it needs a government focussed on overturning the housing market’s addiction to stealthily increased housing prices. The nation needs to give up this ‘assetisation’ - but can it or will it without determined, long term leadership? It needs tenures which give more security to tenants. It needs rent controls. Affordable need to actually mean affordable which is no more that 20% of mean wages.  It needs loan systems which activate the individual citizen’s capacity for buying or renovating or self-building. It needs housing projects where groups of citizens can come together to solve their own housing needs and requirements,  Emphasis needs to shift from big developers and housing associations to activating and enabling the hundreds of thousands of people who solve their own housing problems once they can select from as wide a range of options as is possible. They need to hold the money. If this shift can take place, the existing infrastructure will also shift and simply chase the money. Our current housing infrastructure supports the big developers and creates home which have no aesthetics and do not form the basis of lasting communities. “New homes” is now synonymous with acres and acres of rabbit-like, brick hutches which are depressing to the eye and dispiriting to the soul. Cheap housing, which is universally disliked - we hear about the people who don’t want them in their area because they depress house prices, but what about the (poor) people who have to live in them? Find bottom up solutions which release the creativity and dynamism of all in the population. And do not fixate on one approach or one idea. 

I live round Hounslow and Isleworth area. We had lots of new developments in last few years and that's great. More is still needed BUT what I find is not getting addressed when those plannings are getting ahead is the necessary services coming with it: nurseries, schools, DOCTORS, transport (public as well as road congestion). London needs so much more housing (high rise is fine although would be good to put in place some precautions so older people can get lower floors)but I find the other services are left behind as if it was a separate issue but it is interconnected.

I believe that the outskirts of London are the most suitable places for building new homes. At the present time, the building of new homes is concentrated in areas that are already very built up and new structures are rarely in keeping with existing infrastructure.

I think a combination of space, lower prices and location are equally-important nowadays. Additionally, I think consideration to service provision must be incorporated into the planning process when buiding new homes as well as the impact of services on existing residents -eg. school and healthcare provisions.

I would rather have a combination of new flats and family homes with limits set on heights without drastically standing out from existing homes. I would make a 50% affordable (30% social) provision mandatory in London so existing communities are preserved rather than decimated. I would also like to see outdoor space included in all new builds -even if it is just a balcony as a lack of this can have significant health impacts.