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  • Lead off question - Delays to Crossrail (Supplementary) [13]

    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 06 September 2018
    David Kurten AM: Let us come back to the technical aspects. It seems the main problems are getting the three different signalling infrastructures to talk to each other. If you had an extension from Abbey Wood to Ebbsfleet then you would need Crossrail to go onto Southeastern track, which might be a fourth signalling structure. Would it not be? You are shaking your heads.
  • LLDC and the current housing climate

    • Reference: 2017/4151
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 02 November 2017
    With the housing market currently stagnating due to record house prices, banks clamping down on mortgage lending through tougher affordability criteria and interest rate rises looming on affordability requirements, are the current plans by the LLDC just too ambitious?
  • LLDC Finances (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 02 November 2017
    Peter Whittle AM: Thank you, Chair. David, good morning. I notice that one of the planks of the whole development is going to be the Cultural and Education District. This is absolutely to do with the long-term finances of the whole project. I notice that apparently for the construction costs originally, for example, for the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), you were looking at philanthropic donation to cover it. That has been abandoned and now you are going to underwrite it. According to your draft budget submission it is now assumed the museum building development will be repaid through a...