00:03Currently, new developments must allocate 35 per cent of the development to affordable
00:09housing to use a fast-tracked planning process. But, under these plans announced in October,
00:17this quota is set to be reduced to 20 per cent. This prospective legal challenge is
00:23being supported by Lambeth, Southwark, Waltham Forest and Haringey Councils, as well as Green
00:29Parsi leader Zach Polanski. The councils claim that Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan and City Hall have
00:36not used the proper process for amending the quota in the London Plan, a development strategy
00:43written by the Mayor himself. Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Lewisham councils, each led by
00:48a directly elected Mayor, also claim there was a lack of consultation before the decision
00:53was made. Zoe Garbit, the Green Parsi Executive Mayor of Hackney, who was elected in May,
00:59said that housing was the Mayor's number one issue. Liam Srivastava, the Mayor of Lewisham,
01:05who is also from the Green Party, said communities are crying out for genuinely affordable housing.
01:10He added that there are more than 10,000 people on the housing waiting list in the borough.
01:15While Green Party leader Zach Polanski described housing issues in London as a scandal, which
01:21will be a key issue in the next London Mayoral election.
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