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• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

Bishop, I wonder if you think that the function of the church ought to be more proactive? Things you have just been talking about; advice groups and playgroups and all of that kind of thing, is that that people all come to you, ought you not to be going to the people?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

Is being more effective you going out and knocking on people's doors, saying: `You are poor. You need help from us. You need our charity'?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

Isn't that precisely the point that I have been making: that you are sitting there waiting for the poor to come to you, rather than' Brian Coleman (Chairman): I do not quite think that that is what the Bishop said at all, Mr Arbour, to intervene on his behalf. The Bishop can explain himself.

• Reference: 2001/0053-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What is the appropriate use for tall buildings? Does this predicate their siting? .

• Reference: 2001/0057-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What have you done in your capacity as the Mayor's Chief Architecture Advisor to nurture and develop the talent of London's new generation of architects? .

• Reference: 2001/0063-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Do you agree with recommendation 6.3 of the London Planning Advisory Committee's Supplementary Advice on High Buildings and Strategic Views published in 1999 that the ten strategic views of central London should be protected? If no, what guidelines should be adopted as to what views are worth preserving, if any? .

• Reference: 2001/0064-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

At the moment there is no protected strategic view of the City for East Londoners. Do you believe that this section of the capitals' population should enjoy an amenity that is available to the residents of Hampstead, Richmond and Greenwich? If so, what should the view be? If no, why not? .

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I am a little concerned about your desire for there to be a dynamic skyline in London. One of the great things about London is the residents' sense of place, and familiarity, and neighbourhood, and one of the things which actually ties Londoners into London are indeed the strategic views, and not necessarily just strategic. In my patch the strategic view is of the city spread before me from Richmond Park, for example. And I am not certain I want to see that dynamically changed. But I really want to ask you, what is the place of familiarity, as far...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I would like to ask you about the conflict between the development of strategic sites and strategic views. In your view, if view is the appropriate word, should strategic views be sacrificed to economic regeneration and the development of the strategic sites?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Do I understand from what you are saying that there could be new strategic views and the existing strategic views could be improved? Presumably improved by new build of tall buildings which are often simply no more than corporate virility symbols?