Editing Transport for London (section)

===Places for London===
[[Places for London]], is the property-owning arm of Transport for London. Launched in 2015, it was re-branded as Places for London in 2023, as part of a programme of homebuilding.<ref name=":32">{{Cite news |last=Allen |first=Kate |date=2015-01-28 |title=TfL turns property developer to help fund capital’s transport |url=https://www.ft.com/content/bf6e3828-a56d-11e4-ad35-00144feab7de |access-date=2025-02-28 |work=Financial Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lydall |first=Ross |date=2023-09-20 |title=TfL property firm rebranded as it looks to deliver thousands of homes a year |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/tfl-property-firm-rebrand-places-for-london-affordable-homes-b1108258.html |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=[[Evening Standard]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Nerval |first=Ciaran |date=2023-09-21 |title=TfL’s property firm rebrands to Places for London |url=https://www.propertyweek.com/news/tfls-property-firm-rebrands-to-places-for-london |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=[[Property Week]] |language=en}}</ref> {{As of|2024}}, it owns and manages over {{convert|5500|acres|ha}} of land throughout London, making it one of the city's largest landowners.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About us |url=https://www.placesforlondon.co.uk/about-us |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=Places for London |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":02">{{Cite news |last=Kollewe |first=Julia |date=2022-08-18 |title=How Transport for London plans to build 20,000 new homes |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/18/how-transport-for-london-plans-to-build-20000-new-homes |access-date=2024-09-04 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=16 July 2020 |title=TfL Land |url=https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/tfl-land-12 |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=[[London Assembly]]}}</ref> Places for London plans to build 20,000 new homes across London by the 2030s, with around half of them being affordable housing.<ref name=":02" /> TfL plans to reinvest profits made by Places for London back into the transport network, similar to the Rail + Property model used by the [[MTR Corporation]] in [[Hong Kong]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Riding |first=James |date=17 April 2023 |title=Inside TfL’s mission to build thousands of affordable homes |url=https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/inside-tfls-mission-to-build-thousands-of-affordable-homes-81132 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=Inside Housing |language=En}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Farmah |first=Anjna |date=2023-01-30 |title=TfL: accelerating the adoption of transit-oriented developme |url=https://www.transportxtra.com/publications/local-transport-today/news/72859/tfl-accelerating-the-adoption-of-transit-oriented-development-tod-in-the-uk/ |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=www.transportxtra.com |language=en-GB}}</ref>