ABSTRACT
The approved London Plan had set out the objective of reviewing London’s housing capacity to seek to increase the target from 23,000 homes a year to 30,000 homes a year. As stated above in Chapter 4, the Mayor and his advisors had resisted pressure from both the central government and the Home Builders Federation to adopt the higher figure in advance of a new study. The GLA, however, moved quickly to undertake a new assessment, recognizing that the 1999-based study was out of date. The GLA commissioned the consultants ERM to undertake an assessment of methodologies which could be used for a new study (GLA 2003e).
