Clause 28
Greater London Authority Bill
3:15 pm
Martin Linton (PPS (Rt Hon Harriet Harman QC, Minister of State), Department for Constitutional Affairs; Battersea, Labour)
In referring to “success”, does the hon. Gentleman mean the three or four years when Wandsworth council’s planning committee asked for no affordable housing whatever from any of the developments along the riverside and left it to the local Member of Parliament to ask the Minister for Housing and Planning to intervene, because that was the only way to get any affordable housing through planning gain? Does he support that? Or is he talking about the council’s current policy, under which it has eventually come round to agreeing that some affordable housing would be desirable?