The Leader of Bromley’s Conservatives has called out Sadiq Khan for misleading residents.
Councillor Colin Smith, who is also the Leader of Bromley Council, responded to accusations from the Mayor that Bromley was not building enough affordable homes.
Smith pointed to the number of affordable housing schemes in the Borough - that the Mayor’s own Deputy has praised Bromley for - being delivered without building on the Green Belt.
This follows news in recent weeks that Sadiq Khan plans to build on London’s Green Belt, U-turning on his pledges from the last election.
Leader of Bromley Conservatives, Councillor Colin Smith, said:
“Residents should not be fooled by Mr Khan's rhetoric as this is a very clear attempt by him and his team to deflect from their broken electoral pledge not to attack Outer London's greenbelt.
For anybody interested is such trivia as the truth, the facts of the matter are that the cherry picked figure referred to does not reflect the true picture of affordable housing delivery in Bromley, with a wider lens showing over 420 affordable housing starts on site in Bromley just a couple years ago for instance, and statistics for more recent years often being revised up as more data becomes available.
The truth is that Bromley is one of few London councils directly delivering affordable housing at present, with eight sites having secured planning in recent years to deliver around 300 homes and more sites in the pipeline, with, rather embarrassingly for him,even Mr Khan's own Deputy having recently praised this progress.
Additionally, the Council has secured over 800 properties in recent years through multi-million-pound partnership working projects with investors to help combat the ongoing and severe challenges to all London councils of housing homeless families.
There is of course more to be done to provide further affordable housing, which the Council is doing at appropriate sites across the borough, while continuing to protect our Bromley's much cherished Green belt”.
