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Sadiq Khan: 'We've all got to do better on housing'
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3/12/2025
Sadiq Khan: 'We've all got to do better on housing'
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we can't run away from the fact there were these macro issues affecting housing.
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And that's why it's so welcome to have a pro-housing, pro-growth government come into
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our... They're the cavalry, if you like, arriving to help London. Why? Having a target of 1.5 million
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homes makes it quite clear to councils and to planning officers the expectation, you've got
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to say yes, otherwise the government will take over. But also, developers know you've got
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a government setting these big, big ambition targets. The last time we built, the government's
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got a target of 88,000 homes a year. 1934. 1934 was the last time we built more than 80,000 homes.
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That's the sort of scale of house building required. But I'm the first to admit,
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supplies don't meet demand. We've got to do better, and we're going to do better with the
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support of national government, councils, but also with some foreign investment. I think the issue
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is the macro issues I explained in relation to house building in London. We had, when I became
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mayor, Brexit. We then had the pandemic. We then had the consequence of a hard Brexit. We then had
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Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Notwithstanding all that, we've achieved a remarkable amount,
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even though the government's not been pro-London. Now I've got a pro-London government, and I'm
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saying to developers and investors, talk to us. My deputy mayor for planning is here every year,
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but Jools meets regularly developers, as does Tom Copley and Howard Dilbert, the business and
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housing deputy mayor, respectively, as indeed do I. It's really important to give people confidence,
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which we're getting now from the prime minister, the chancellor.
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