Housing - Catherine West MP

Haringey New Local Plan: first steps engagement

Haringey Council are currently holding their first steps engagement on their new local plan. Full details can be found here and you have until 1 February 2021 to submit your comments at this stage. Here’s a copy of the letter I’ve sent setting out some of the key issues I’d…

My column in the Ham & High: Government must support people off the streets

In my latest column for the Ham & High, I wrote about the rough sleeping crisis in our city which has been made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic. Read it online here or below: “1,136, that’s the Government’s own cautious estimate of the number of people sleeping rough in London tonight.…

EWS1 certificates – response from the Housing Minister

Over recent weeks I’ve been contacted by a number of constituents who have found themselves in the impossible situation of being unable to sell, mortgage or insure their home because of the confusion and uncertainty caused by the new EWS1 certificate. It’s become clear that these new regulations, brought in…

Catherine West MP slams Tory social housing failure

Catherine West MP has slammed the Tory Government’s Social Housing green paper, which was finally published during the summer Parliamentary recess. Catherine said: “We’ve waited and waited for this green paper and now it’s finally been published it’s not worth the paper it’s written on. We have a desperate housing…

Panama Papers, Overseas Territories and the London Housing Market

My article in the Times on Panama Papers, Overseas Territories & the London Housing Crisis

Catherine West MP calls for 50 per cent affordable housing in Wood Green regeneration

A Housing Bill that does nothing to tackle the housing crisis we face

Send a message to the developers – Wood Green needs more genuinely affordable housing

North London YMCA visit – housing and training for young people in need