The mayor's office said that the new housing zones will provide 24,554 new homes and "create new neighbourhoods across the capital". The mayor has designated £200 million to these new housing zones which are located across 10 London boroughs, stretching from Bromley North to Catford to Kingston.
Feltham housing zone in Hounslow will deliver the most houses with 3,339 new units. Romford in Havering will have 3,304 new homes and Edmonton Heartlands in Enfield 3,254. Canada Water in Southwark will deliver the fewest new homes with 1,000.
The aim of the housing zones "is to boost housing supply, stimulate building and produce new low cost homes London needs to meet its growing population", according to the mayor's office. This new announcement brings the total number to 31 housing zones, which will deliver a total of 77,000 new homes to London, of which 34% will be affordable homes, along with "transformational regeneration of key town centres, train station hubs and housing estates."
Johnson made the announcement as he opened a new affordable housing development, Trenchard House in Soho. Trenchard House was a derelict Metropolitan Police Hostel, on land that was released by the London mayor. The redeveloped site provided 78 new homes, of which 65 are affordable flats.
These affordable homes are "intermediate rent with some offered at 75% discount to market rates. Exact rents are based on resident's income.
Johnson said: “Meeting the unprecedented demand for housing after 30 years of historic failure to build new homes is a critical issue affecting the capital. That is why I have led an enormous programme of regeneration with my 31 housing zones that will transform communities across London, creating nearly 80,000 new homes, plus new transport hubs and schools."
“These apartments are just some of the 100,000 new affordable homes being delivered over my two mayoral terms. This site forms part of more than 400 hectares of developable land the GLA inherited and which I have now released every inch of, to ensure as many homes as possible are built throughout London," said Johnson.
Planning expert Richard Ford of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said: "London's housing crisis is the number one mayoral election issue. Housing zones are a key part of the solution, alongside public sector land development, starter homes, PRS, estate regeneration, green belt review, higher density and, where appropriate, tall buildings. There are enough tools in the toolkit to get London building."