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  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [26]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    I understand that, but if Londoners might end up picking up the bill for the gap of £75 million then perhaps they might be interested in it. Are we comparing like for like now in terms of what the original bid was? I understand an access bridge has now been added to the Aquatics Centre and that has clearly inflated the budget for the Aquatics Centre. Whilst we talk about an Aquatics Centre now, as we did some time ago, we are not actually talking about the same project, are we?

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [27]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    Hopefully by Christmas there will not be people living within the Olympic Park who will be subject to such immediate environmental challenges and problems. However, for the wider community, including people I represent across East London and including Jennette's [Arnold] constituency in Hackney and beyond, I think people would be a lot more reassured if we go back to the point that was made earlier about transparency; if there was a clear transparency about environmental information about dust levels and about pollution issues. I know I have been intimately involved in the issue about radioactive waste, for example, and I...

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [31]

    • Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    Alright, and your contractors, those people who are actually working on the site, driving these vehicles and what have you, are they properly protected, using properly protective clothing and all the rest?

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [32]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    I am sorry, but all that was known and we all knew about the fact that it was also about regeneration. What I am saying is I think the public will feel that they have been taken for a very large ride, particularly when people now say, 'Oh yeah, that was just to win the bid.' It just does not allow the public to feel very confident that they are being treated like grown ups, does it?

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [34]

    • Question by: Dee Doocey
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    Can you just be clear how much the LOCOG budget is contributing to the venues?

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [35]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    I am aware of that and you have got two or three years of critical paths of analysis of where you have got to be and all the rest of it. Where are you on the budget with these other buildings?

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [36]

    • Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    Alright, are you aware that the River Lee has been tested for radioactivity and in fact I have a Capita Symonds document here which says, `That the levels were slightly higher than expected, not high enough to cause great concern,' and identifies, `Elevated levels of radioactivity above levels considered to be natural background level for the area'.

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [37]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    Going on your original budget which did not include VAT and build cost inflation, is that going to be eaten up by your contingency reserves? Where is that going to be covered from?

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [38]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    This is a question to David Higgins. There was something you said earlier and I just want to go back to it very briefly. I recognise that you came to this after the initial stage, after we had won the bid but I find it vaguely depressing when you say, as you have done in the past, 'Oh yes, well, the plans for the Aquatics Centre - it was all a bit vague. That was in the bid document in order to help us win the bid.' Don't you think that it actually brings the whole process into disrepute, that...

  • Legacy Master plan for the Olympic Park (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    OK. Can I just go back to Hackney. Hackney Wick station is the closest station to the future employment use in that location. However there are currently no plans to provide a direct pedestrian link. Don't you think it will be a missed opportunity if we can't get a direct link from Hackney Wick to the Olympic Park? I do not understand why this is missing and there has been pressure put but we can't seem to get any answer.