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  • Challenges Facing London (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 07 December 2016
    Nicky Gavron AM: Minister, good morning. I wanted to ask you a question about permitted development rights, which allow a change of use from offices and other workspaces now to residential without going through the planning system. Everyone around this horseshoe agrees that we need more affordable housing and we need more housing generally, but we also desperately need affordable workspace. Change of use is offering a windfall in terms of upping value to property owners and to developers. What we are seeing in London is that rents are going up and, in many cases, land prices are going up...
  • Public disorder incidents in London (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 07 September 2011
    ): There is a very good track record in many areas of London of engagement by the police with the community, particularly in gang intervention, and I know, Acting Commissioner, that this is something you know a lot about. Have there been cuts in that intervention?