How Sadiq Khan failed London on housing

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "The planning system should ideally function with clear rules about what you can and what you can't do, that correspond to how the land is allocated inside the local plan," says Breach at the Centre for Cities.
46% : Under Khan, the plan has ballooned to more than 500 pages and imposed a plethora of policies on how builders should design their schemes.
45% : It means that any London mayor has "one hand tied behind their back", argues Anthony Breach, a senior analyst and housing expert at the Centre for Cities.
40% : Finally, pending changes to building regulations in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire are also sowing confusion.

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