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Surrounding our train stations across London are car washes, waste plants and scrublands that are falsely designated as Green Belt land and, as such, are preventing the building of the homes our capital is so desperate for. I'm calling for this non-green Green Belt within a 45 minutes of London Zone 1 to be de-designated with a priority for new homes.

Last month, I received the incredibly saddening news from the End Child Poverty coalition that a staggering 32% of the children in my constituency of Mitcham and Morden are living in poverty. They are 8,598 of the 700,000 children across our capital who are living below the poverty line, defined as a minimum acceptable standard of living.

128,000 children spent this Christmas homeless. 9,712 residents are on the housing register in Merton. 9,000 people are sleeping on our streets. Our housing market is broken and Siobhain is calling for change.