Warning on mayor’s extra powers

08 November 2006
 
London Councils has warned that proposals to give the mayor of London Ken Livingstone power to grant approval for planning applications will undermine the capital’s planning system.
Formerly known as the Association of London Government, London Councils has raised a number of concerns about proposed changes to the Mayor of London Order 2000.
It claims the proposals are not transparent or specific enough to ensure the planning system will work fairly and with sufficient local accountability. The proposals could deprive communities of their voice, as ‘borough planning committees are the best guarantee for local people to be able to influence the big decisions affecting their neighbourhoods’. The association has called for complete transparency in the event of the mayor taking over an application, with meetings conducted in public and all possible conflicts of interest openly addressed.
For dealing with waste, it says the mayor ‘should take into account the extent to which a borough fulfils the requirements as set out in the London plan’ before he can determine such an application.
London Councils also insists that failure of a borough to determine an application within a set timescale should not automatically result in the Mayor taking it over.
Councillor Sean Brennan, vice-chair of London Councils, raised two more concerns over resources. ‘Firstly, we are concerned that expert planners may leave the boroughs if all the most important applications are decided at a regional level. It is also essential that local council tax payers should not be penalised financially by the Government proposals.

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