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• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

I am interested to get a sense of where relations with Europe - or perhaps I should say the rest of Europe at the risk of alienating some people round the Chamber - figure in this. John [Ross], you mentioned the Euro Zone but that is not the whole of Europe. One could talk of the Euro Zone, the EU and Europe. We have the Brussels office costing something over £400,000 a year. Is it that that is working very well and therefore low profile? I would have hoped that the Mayor would set a high priority on good relations...

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

That thought had actually occurred to me as well, that it is included in the figures, and I think most people would regard it as international.

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 March 2007

So this is a relationship between cities, because I was not sure whether promoting our position within the EU came within promotion, which was one of your three top priorities?

• Reference: 2001/0080-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

To what extent will the work of the Architecture and Urbanism Unit be supported by consultants? How much will this cost and what steps will be taken to ensure that conflicts of interest do not arise? .

• Reference: 2001/0085-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Will the Architecture and Urbanism Unit be involved in a possible bid to bring the Olympics to London? .

• Reference: 2001/0086-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Do you feel that an event such as the Olympics would offer the opportunity of an urban renaissance in substantial swathes of London? (Sally Hamwee) .

• Reference: 2001/0095-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

How important is the preservation of views to urban design? .

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Would it be right, though I do not much like the word myself, to say that one needs to have a holistic approach then?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

We have heard from you this morning that views are important. But also that views change. In a world where one has to deal both with the overall plan and then with individual development control applications, how can we ensure that in getting from one to the other we are not ruining the city? I do not know how to reconcile statements that views are important and looking after views is important and also that views can be allowed to change. I do not know what the mechanisms are that should be applied.