Housing: Greater London
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with the Mayor of London on building new homes on land designated for strategic industrial locations.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook
Strategic Industrial Land is land designated in the London Plan as vital for industrial and related capacity.
On 18 March 2024, the last Government directed the Mayor of London to complete a partial review of the London Plan including in relation to the use of industrial land.
This Government believes that a review of industrial land policies is better undertaken as part of the wider London Plan review given that it cannot be meaningfully reviewed in isolation. As a result, we withdrew the direction, given under section 340(2) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999, on 30 September 2024.
Withdrawing the direction will allow the government and the Greater London Authority to take a new partnership approach on our shared aim to deliver the homes London needs.
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