tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257577153395464.post4163548656793927308..comments2023-07-04T15:19:30.005+01:00Comments on Bespoke Taylor: Five problems London's next mayor will inheritjoeltaylorhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985080887660420551noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257577153395464.post-20372535724491784182014-05-27T17:31:23.918+01:002014-05-27T17:31:23.918+01:00Cheers, no worries!Cheers, no worries!Wintergreennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257577153395464.post-18827982872533150462014-05-23T22:31:48.948+01:002014-05-23T22:31:48.948+01:00The below is 'Wintergreen's' first com...The below is 'Wintergreen's' first comment, which I must have somehow accidentally deleted. Thankfully, I still have a copy in my email. Apologies.<br /><br />’The new bus for London costs over £300,000 because it's a hybrid diesel-electric bus. All hybrid double decker buses cost that much. Comparing the upfront price to a conventional (diesel-only) bus is very misleading as it does not take into account either the environmental benefits or the money saved through increased fuel efficiency over the lifetime of the bus.’joeltaylorhackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11985080887660420551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257577153395464.post-2472976880720675832014-05-23T22:18:25.174+01:002014-05-23T22:18:25.174+01:00Erm, no idea how that happened. I would never remo...Erm, no idea how that happened. I would never remove a comment, certainly not one as reasonable as yours. Unfortunately, it appears to have completely vanished from blogger; if you have a copy I'll restore it immediately.joeltaylorhackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11985080887660420551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257577153395464.post-83750441043412275192014-05-23T18:36:21.442+01:002014-05-23T18:36:21.442+01:00Hmm... rather bad form to delete my comment, parti...Hmm... rather bad form to delete my comment, particularly as you haven't corrected your error about bus pricing...Wintergreennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257577153395464.post-75182341534902143572014-04-16T23:12:00.517+01:002014-04-16T23:12:00.517+01:00While it is true that the housing crisis did not b...While it is true that the housing crisis did not begin with Boris, he hardly helped matters by insisting that the new affordable homes supplied through the GLA housing programme be set at "affordable rents" of up to 80% of market rent, a level wholly unaffordable to low income households in all but a few London boroughs. The delivery rates of the programme have also been dismal, disguised by his inheritance of the Livingstone/Brown programme which delivered over 10,000 housing starts a year in each of the first four years of his term and for which he naturally took unwarranted credit.<br /><br />The London Plan now explicitly states that boroughs should accept the full range of sub-market rents (ie including 80% in some cases) in any new 'affordable housing' schemes receiving Mayoral grant funding. This means that even on his own figures, the number of genuinely affordable homes the Mayor will look to deliver (i.e. those at around a social rent level) are less than a third of the annual assessed requirement.<br /><br />The only other means of bridging the gap are through S106 agreements with developers to provide affordable housing as part of private schemes, but these are being squeezed out of the system too as the government has made it much easier for developers to appeal such requirements on the basis that they make developments unviable. Then there is council funding, but their borrowing powers are still capped (to his credit Boris is arguing that the cap should be lifted) meaning their ability to invest in new housing is severely limited.Simon Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00283856430877339346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257577153395464.post-13039246786765131412014-04-16T21:23:13.084+01:002014-04-16T21:23:13.084+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Wintergreennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257577153395464.post-63431432807152965602014-04-16T20:22:00.664+01:002014-04-16T20:22:00.664+01:00Another problem making promises on segregated cycl...Another problem making promises on segregated cycling to make polulation healthier and reduce population.Cycleoptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15239621592960773094noreply@blogger.com