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• Reference: 2004/0209-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

What proportion of new homes envisaged for the London Thames Gateway will not be deliverable without major enhancement of flood management schemes? When can we expect to see agreement and commencement of a programme of major enhancement of flood management in the London Thames Gateway? .

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

I am sure we will all feel completely safe in the hands of developers here in London, especially putting in an environmental project that they probably do not have very much sympathy for in the first place. I just think it is incredibly premature to start planning homes, houses or buildings before we have actually had any sort of flood management assessment. I think it is expected in 2008 or 2009, the interim results are going to be in May this year, apparently, but plans are already in hand. How can you possibly do that?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Except you cannot actually roll out a Green Grid until you have got the land, and you have to have the land before any development takes place. This is not something you can impose afterwards; it has got to be there at the very beginning.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

I did not actually hear an answer to my question in there. I did ask what proportion of new homes will not be deliverable? I have got a very pretty map here which outlines where the development is going to be along the river, and it is clear that a huge proportion of those houses and buildings are going to be on flood plains. Now, I am not the only person to be concerned about this. The Association of British Insurers (ABI) have raised concerns about the issue of insuring these homes, simply because " you talk about one in...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Let us talk about some of these improvements that you referred to in your opening remarks, the Green Grid for example. I understand that, not only has only a tiny percentage of the money been raised for that, but also you have not actually secured the land yet. When is all that going to happen?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

That sounds an improvement on many previous UDCs, but how do we actually make that happen?

• Reference: 2003/0241
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Will the information provided to people during the current consultation on the East London River Crossing include an assessment of the impacts of extra traffic on air quality and health in East London? If the building of this bridge does generate extra traffic, will it make it more, or less likely that you meet the Governments targets, and the E.U. targets, for air quality in the boroughs of Newham, Greenwich and Lewisham? .

• Reference: 2003/0242
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

In the London Mayor's response to Jenny Jone's question 760/2003 he states that 'the options for river crossings were considered in a range of earlier studies'. Did any of these studies look at alternative sites for a road river crossing? Did such sites include provision of a local bridge with only one lane each way for private motorised transport? Did any of these sites include a bridge with provision for only buses, pedestrians and cyclists? .

• Reference: 2003/0243
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Do you accept the conclusion in the John Elliot report 'a solution looking for a problem' (T2000, Mar 03) that the East London River Crossing will be capable of handling between 6,000 to 8,000 vehicles an hour in the morning peak? .