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• Reference: 2017/4146
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

The Mayor told me he has 'asked TfL to work with LLDC to review the traffic modelling options operating the bridges in light of [his] draft transport strategy'. Should the review highlight unacceptable traffic impacts on local people, will the bridge plans be cancelled?

• Reference: 2017/4147
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

In response to my question 2017/3007 the Mayor revealed that the GLA provided £110m grant in total to Triathlon Homes for affordable homes in the East Village (the former athletes' village). Residents and local campaigners have said that Triathlon Homes have now increased the rents beyond what they can afford, forcing them to move away. What will you do to ensure that affordable homes in the Olympic park stay affordable?

• Reference: 2017/4148
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

According to the Convergence Strategy and Action Plan 2015 - 2018, the Convergence indicator measuring overcrowding for the Growth Boroughs worsened between 2009 - 2015. What are you doing to address this?

• Reference: 2017/4149
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

How has the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) sought to ensure that the needs of the Gypsy and Traveller community are being identified and met?

• Reference: 2017/4150
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

Do you have a target for providing affordable family sized homes? What percentage of affordable family sized homes have been achieved so far?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

That is very welcome. Will you actually write that into the contracts, and has it already been written into those contracts that have already been let?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Again, will there be independent monitoring, as I mentioned earlier with the sustainability issues, of contracts, compliance, and such like to ensure that it does happen, and it is actually delivered?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

That sounds reassuring, because obviously, we want to prevent profiteering, and we want to prevent these big companies moving in and just profiteering without actually putting anything into the event or into the long term. However, in terms of the way the legislation that Peter (Hulme Cross) has shown me is being drafted, it does seem to imply that certain words would be banned in certain combinations. I am all for making sure that Nike or whoever cannot profiteer from this event, but if the local café wants to run an Olympics event night or something like that, I do...

• Reference: 2005/0276-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

What alternative sites are being provided for the Traveller families displaced by the Olympics?

• Reference: 2005/0278-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Given the massive potential for waterborne freight in the Lower Lea Valley, will the Olympic construction contracts require that construction companies make full use of the waterways surrounding the Olympics site to transport materials and waste?