A lack of affordable housing and spiraling property prices have overtaken crime and safety as Londoners’ top priorities according to the latest Annual London Survey.

Ken Livingstone has directed Conservative controlled Hammersmith and Fulham Council to reject a planning application in a row with the Council over the number of affordable homes to be included in the scheme.

Lewisham’s Mayor Steve Bullock has written to MPs expressing his support for government proposals to grant the Mayor of London more say over planning decisions in the capital.

London will gain 800 new homes and see conditions of some of its most run down housing estates improve after winning 51.5 million GBP of central government funding.

Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has welcomed the announcement in today’s Queen’s Speech that the Government will bring forward a bill to increase the powers of the Greater London Authority.