Mayor of London appoints lead for housing delivery

The Mayor of London has announced the appointment of a new senior professional lead for housing delivery, implementing one of the recommendations made in Lord Bob Kerslake’s review of Greater London Authority (GLA) Group housing.

Lyn Garner, the current Chief Executive of the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) will provide strategic oversight over the delivery of housing on land owned by the GLA group.

Lord Kerslake was commissioned to undertake an independent review to look at how the GLA group could build homes more quickly and increase the scope of housing delivery on land owned by the group.

Since 2016, the group has started construction on more than 17,000 homes on GLA land.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan said: ‘It’s vital that we maximise the number of genuinely affordable homes built on land owned by the GLA Group and, with her skills and experience, Lyn Garner is well placed to coordinate the changes required to improve collaboration and speed up the delivery of much-needed homes for Londoners.’

In her new role, Lyn Garner will provide strategic oversight and system leadership over GLA group housing delivery, overseeing programme and performance management across the group.

Lyn will also oversee GLA Group collaboration on housing delivery, promote consistency in practice and will support decision making and performance management forums. She will remain chief executive of LLDC alongside her role as senior professional lead.

Lyn Garner said: ‘It’s a privilege to be asked to coordinate the delivery of housing on behalf of the Mayor. There is huge potential and a genuine commitment among all involved to use our landholdings to tackle London’s housing crisis. In these times of continuing uncertainty we must use the skills and experience we have to drive the existing programme and explore all avenues to deliver even more.’

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