Little will change for London if Boris wins says Labour
Labour MP Nick Raynsford has said that a win for Boris Johnson in the mayoral election will not affect London’s affordable housing delivery. Labour MP Nick Raynsford has said that a win for Boris Johnson in the mayoral election will not affect London’s affordable housing delivery.
Johnson has vowed to build 50,000 more affordable homes in London by 2011, but will abandon Ken Livingstone’s 50% affordable housing target, preferring to allow councils to set their own delivery goals. But this will make little difference to council’s current targets in practice, Raynsford, MP for Greenwich and Woolwich in south-east London.
“Compared to 15 years ago, when a vast amount of land stood derelict throughout London, the capital is developing a range of vibrant and mixed communities, with a focus on getting the mix right. Our local authority will continue to set its own affordable targets whatever the election result.”
But there’s a danger that there’s too much of an obsession with numbers on housing delivery – we need to focus on producing imaginative schemes to leave a legacy for future Londoners rather than just number crunching.”
Conservative candidate Boris Johnson is currently the favourite of both press and poll to win the mayoral election, with even Downing Street aides conceding that Ken Livingstone has lost. One bookmaker announced this afternoon that it was paying out on a Tory win hours before the official result is expected at 20:30 this evening.
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