{"id":358774,"date":"2026-01-08T10:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358774\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:32:07","slug":"london-rail-projects-have-to-happen-for-homes-to-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358774\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;London rail projects have to happen for homes to follow&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London will struggle to build its target 88,000 new homes every year for the next decade unless two major rail projects are given the green light, the deputy mayor for housing has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tom Copley said the next London Plan would factor in the government&#8217;s request, which was part of a target for 1.5m new homes in the UK by 2029, but could fall short if enough infrastructure was not built.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee that a &#8220;huge amount of infrastructure and funding&#8221; was needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In order to actually get to that target, a lot of things have to happen,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The DLR extension is very important. We also need a Bakerloo Line extension, the West London Orbital.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London will struggle to build its target 88,000 new homes every year for the next decade unless two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-358774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}