Mayor needs to do homework as police numbers don’t add up

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Oct
30

• Mr Khan blames government cuts, but he removed £38m from Met recruitment
• Police reduction numbers cannot be achieved as stated

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Dutch-style 'plot-shops' key to increasing self-build development (report)

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Oct
30

• Report urges Mayor to back creative self-build scheme
• Only 10% of UK housing development is self-build – despite recent positive legislation
• London Mayor encouraged to back roll out of innovative Plot Shop schemes across the Capital

A new report by London Assembly Member Shaun Bailey found self-build registrations have halved across London’s local authorities.

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Emergency response performances plummet under Mayor’s Pathfinders trial

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Oct
23

• Five trial boroughs are now worst performing in London
• Barking and Dagenham performance drops almost 30 per cent
• Pathfinders merger scheme started in April and could be rolled out across London

Police emergency response times have dramatically worsened in five boroughs merged under a trial conducted by the Mayor of London, latest figures show. Havering, Barking and Dagenham, Redbridge, Camden and Islington are now the five worst performing boroughs in London for emergency response times following the implementation of the Pathfinders scheme.

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T-charge launch: Scheme is ‘a £23million attack on London’s small businesses and poorest drivers’

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Oct
23

• Mayor’s assessments show T-charge will have ‘negligible’ impact on air quality
• Expected to reduce poisonous gases by just 1-3%
• Charge will cost London’s poorest drivers £23million a year
• Small businesses and self-employed could be hammered by fees
• Mayor accused of ‘blowing smoke’ with T-charge effectiveness claims

The Mayor of London has ‘launched an attack on small businesses and London’s poorest drivers’ by introducing a road tax that ‘won’t make a dent’ in London’s harmful emissions.

Transport for London assessments show the T-charge will have a ‘negligible’ impact on air quality and is predicted to reduce NOx emissions by just 1-3%.

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Uber ban could cost Londoners £90million in higher fares

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Oct
17

• Ban challenged by Uber in court appeal despite talks
• If Uber loses, Londoners face increased transport costs of up to £90 million
• A further £864 million in annual wages could be lost by Uber’s 40,000 drivers

Londoners could end up paying an extra £90million a year in taxi fares if Uber’s appeal against their ban in the capital is unsuccessful. The app-based firm is appealing TfL’s decision not to extend its licence and is involved in on-going talks with the operator.

But figures obtained by London Assembly member Andrew Boff showed that if a deal is not reached, the financial consequences for passengers and drivers will be far reaching. Excluding surge charging, the cost of an average 6.4-mile journey from Charing Cross to Hammersmith is £15 in a standard Uber, compared to £25 in a black cab.

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Sadiq Khan wants controversial rent controls that ‘could cut housing supply by 50,000’

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Oct
12

• Evidence shows rent controls cause housing stock in cities to fall
• £4.5bn in rental revenue could be lost in London by 2025, research found
• Despite weight of evidence, Khan backs implementing scheme

Sadiq Khan has said he is in favour of controversial rent controls in London, despite a weight of evidence suggesting it could cut housing supply in the capital by 50,000.

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Police station closures increase journey times 400%

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Oct
10

West London: Journeys to police stations could increase 400 per cent after closures, research shows

• Residents of Hammersmith, Kensington and Westminster face long walks under proposed closures
• Some journey times increase by 400%
• Fears over impact on vulnerable and less mobile

Residents in areas of west London could see a 400 per cent increase in the distance to their nearest police station under closures proposed by the Mayor of London, new research shows.

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