FOI request detail

House building

Request ID: FOI-0415-2223
Date published: 08 June 2022

You asked

"@MayorofLondon Didn't you promise 90000 homes in 2016, where are they? https://t.co/8RBbKrCNnW" nearly 6 years on still not done? How many has he actually built? @TfL can you answer please?

We answered

TfL Ref: FOI-0415-2223

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 23rd May 2022 asking for information about new homes built in London since 2016.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. 

Specifically you asked:

New homes:

"@MayorofLondon Didn't you promise 90000 homes in 2016, where are they? https://t.co/8RBbKrCNnW"

nearly 6 years on still not done? How many has he actually built? @TfL can you answer please?”

I am afraid that TfL does not hold the requested information. The 90,000 figure you cite is not a TfL target but, rather, refers to the Greater London Authority (GLA). Any data that TfL holds about house building will relate to building on TfL land only and our own house building programme (see here for more information https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/business-and-advertisers/developers-and-suppliers?intcmp=62754).

Notwithstanding the above, note that the GLA publishes its London Plan Monitoring Report annually here: https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/planning/implementing-london-plan/monitoring-london-plan.  Chapter 3 (and page 85 in particular) of the latest Annual Monitoring Report details housing delivery measures since 2016. 

For more information I suggest you redirect your question to the GLA. Freedom of Information requests to the GLA can be made via its website here:

https://www.london.gov.uk/about-us/governance-and-spending/sharing-our-information/freedom-information

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.

Yours sincerely,

David Wells
FOI Case Officer
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London
 

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