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• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Joanne McCartney AM: My question is to David. We have heard today about the reallocation of sites for housing in the development. I noticed in your local plan modifications consultation schedule that you still say that you are confident that you can achieve that 50% affordable housing target overall, but I want you to confirm that. Also, in that you say that you consider there are a number of ways in which housing needs, particularly affordable housing, can be met within the local plan period. Could you explain in a little bit more detail what those means are and how...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Joanne McCartney AM: My question is to David and it is about biodiversity. Could you give us an update on the biodiversity study you have commissioned from the Wildlife Trust for the OPDC and how you plan to maximise biodiversity across the site and in particular - we have talked about flooding earlier - how that can minimise the risk of flooding, too?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

This is a question to Mary (Reilly). It is about the training and employment framework that you have mentioned already. I recently visited Canary Wharf, where a training centre was set up on site by the Canary Wharf Group with the Universities & Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and with Lewisham College, which seems to me to be an excellent example of good practice about how workers who have low skills can go on site and, during working hours, get that extra help they need. I know that UCAS is pressing for a similar site to be set up in the...