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  • Question & Answer Session: London's Long-Term Infrastructure Needs (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Tony Devenish
    • Meeting date: 08 June 2023
    Tony Devenish AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, panel, and good morning, Deputy Mayor. I think that was the best excuse I have heard for the Mayor not turning up yet. We get one every time. There is one thing that has not been mentioned so far this morning. As somebody who has spent most of my career in infrastructure, it is the vision thing. You are going into the begging bowl at the end, Deputy Mayor, but before you have a begging bowl you actually need a vision. Both of the first two Mayors really - and I do...
  • Question and Answer Session: Functional Bodies - London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Tony Devenish
    • Meeting date: 11 November 2021
    Tony Devenish AM: In my five years on the Assembly, of all the Mayoral bodies it comes up time and time again that LLDC in terms of community engagement is not terribly responsive. “Opaque” is another word I have been asked to use, “tick box consultation”. I wanted to read back to you a letter that one of your team had written to a community group only very recently where you had to hold your hands up because you had not uploaded an awful lot of documents related to the application on the online planning register. You did not apologise...