Leader of the Council and Cabinet Members
Councillor Helen Dennis
Cabinet Member for New Homes & Sustainable Development
Cllr Dennis’s responsibilities include:
- New council homes - the council’s work to build thousands of new council homes; including new council homes for older people; net-zero homes; and working with the Cabinet Member for Council Homes to deliver new council homes on the Aylesbury, Tustin, Ledbury and Abbeyfield estates
- New affordable homes - including housing association social rent homes; keyworker homes; community land trusts and housing cooperatives; homes for refugees; and temporary accommodation
- Homelessness - including support for people who are at risk of being or who become homeless; working to end rough sleeping; securing good quality temporary accommodation
- Planning & building control - planning applications, enforcement and policy (including the Southwark Plan, neighbourhood plans, area action plans and supplementary planning documents); Section 106 agreements and payments; and building control and dangerous structures
- Old Kent Road - working with the community to shape development in the OKR opportunity area, including the delivery of new affordable homes and community infrastructure
- Major infrastructure projects, including the Bakerloo Line Extension, the new Elephant & Castle Northern Line station, wider improvements to train and tube stations; and Strategic Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
- Opening a Southwark LGBTQ+ cultural space; establishing a Latin American cultural space
- Local Community Infrastructure Levy (LCIL)
- The renewal of Peckham Library Square
- Empty homes and short-term lets - including the council’s Empty Homes Action Plan; tackling empty homes across the private rented sector
- Responding to the Southwark Land Commission
- Renewal of the Aylesbury, Tustin, Ledbury and Abbeyfield estates - working with residents to deliver new and improved homes and estates (working with the Cabinet Member for Council Homes)
Page last updated: 29 May 2024
