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Burford, R. (2026, October 19). Tory London Mayor challenger vows to scrap affordable housing targets and free up space for 300k new homes. Evening Standard. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/tory-london-mayor-challenger-vows-to-scrap-affordable-housing-targets-and-free-up-space-for-300k-new-homes-b1301458.html
Burford, Rachael. “Tory London Mayor challenger vows to scrap affordable housing targets and free up space for 300k new homes.” Evening Standard, 19 Oct. 2026, https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/tory-london-mayor-challenger-vows-to-scrap-affordable-housing-targets-and-free-up-space-for-300k-new-homes-b1301458.html.
Burford, Rachael. “Tory London Mayor challenger vows to scrap affordable housing targets and free up space for 300k new homes.” Evening Standard, October 19, 2026. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/tory-london-mayor-challenger-vows-to-scrap-affordable-housing-targets-and-free-up-space-for-300k-new-homes-b1301458.html.
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Mr. Challoner, a Tory candidate for Mayor of London, has vowed to scrap affordable housing targets in order to free up space for nearly 300,000 new homes across the city by overhauling planning rules and potentially rewriting the London Plan. This plan aims to remove restrictions on converting industrial land into residential areas and encourage higher-density developments near transit hubs. Mr. Challoner argues that current affordable housing quotas make viable development projects financially unfeasible, leading to undeveloped sites. He further promises a crackdown on fare dodgers by stationing police at ticket gates and deploying plain clothes officers across the Underground network as a "visible deterrent."
