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Rory Weal

Sep 23, 2026

2:34
So can you tell us a little bit more about how that will sort of function in practice and what the, what the mayor is doing to unlock these vital housing schemes?
2:43
Yeah, so I visited a scheme recently in Crayford in Bexley and it was a scheme that was submitted to the New Homes Accelerator and it faced an 18-month delay.
2:55
It had a planning consent.
2:56
It was kind of disused brownfield land that had been undeveloped for a long time and we looked at it as a team both with our national colleagues in government and as the GLA And we resolved some critical delays that had been holding it up.
3:11
So that was delays from different bits of the public sector.
3:15
We got approvals from the Environment Agency.
3:17
We supported a timely building safety regulator approval.
4:09
What has the GLA learned about the challenges that are facing the provision of housing supply and how has that informed this sort of new programme

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