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• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Sakina Sheikh AM: Good morning. My question is to Deputy Mayor Jules Pipe, regarding building safety. For many of us, particularly the victims’ families, Grenfell Tower is scarred into our memories and the pursuit for justice continues. The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 report found that in the context of national legislation there was compelling evidence ‑ and I quote ‑ that, “[T]he external walls of the building failed to comply with Requirement B4(1) of Schedule 1 to the Building Regulations 2010, in that they did not adequately resist the spread of the fire having regard to the height, use...

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: My question is for Deputy Mayor Pipe. Jules, how will the new London Plan and its Supplementary Planning Guidance help to deliver on your promises to Londoners?

• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Marina Ahmad AM: My question is to the Deputy Mayor Jules Pipe. As we know, London is the engine of the UK economy and accounts for almost a quarter of the country’s economic output. The coming years are going to be dominated by how London responds to the pandemic and the damage it has caused the city, which is why the Mayor’s manifesto focused on the recovery needs of the city and talked about jobs, jobs, jobs. Deputy Mayor, what do we need from the planning system to support the Mayor’s aim of protecting jobs as our city recovers from...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Léonie Cooper AM: I would like to address my questions to Deputy Mayor Jules Pipe as well. Good morning, Jules. The Mayor has stated that through his strengthening of the planning process in London, London is already ahead of the national building standards in the amount of carbon saved when constructing new homes. That was one of the points that Deputy Mayor Tom Copley referred to when he was talking about overall housing supply. However, what I would like to know is whether or not that strengthening of the London Plan and the planning process is on its own enough...

• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Nicholas Rogers AM: This is a question for Deputy Mayor Jules Pipe. At present, there seems to be a disconnect or an unevenness in the way that called‑in planning applications are approached. At present, there seems to be a lot of working behind closed doors with developers and this often leads to major alterations. Of course, there are very good reasons why the GLA Planning team would meet with developers. My question is: why are resident groups, who know their local areas intimately ‑ they know what will work, they know what will be acceptable to the local community ‑...

• Question by: Peter Fortune
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Peter Fortune AM: This is a question for Deputy Mayor Jules Pipe. It is about the inappropriate proposed developments on Transport for London (TfL) car parking land. Look at the amount of opposition there is to this. I am thinking about Stanmore, which is an 11‑storey proposal, and there are about 2,500 signatures against it. At Finchley, which is a 20‑storey, there are 3,100 opposition statements about it. At Cockfosters, which is 14 storeys, there are about 3,700. With almost 10,000 Londoners being against this, is it time to rethink your proposals for that land?

• Reference: 2023/2660
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 04 March 2021

What are the next steps and priorities for London's recovery bodies, and what should recovery from COVID-19 look like?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 04 March 2021

Unmesh Desai AM: Good morning, Deputy Mayor. Yes, that was a comprehensive background you gave in your answers to the question from my colleague, the Chair of the Assembly, and to some extent you have partly answered some of the questions I was going to ask you, but I will still formally put those questions to you. What specific role did the London Recovery Board, the Strategic Co-ordination Group (SCG) and the London Transition Board have in the national roadmap out of lockdown?

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 04 March 2021

Peter Whittle AM: Good morning, Chair. Good morning to the guests. For my question, could I start by asking Matthew about small businesses? It might be most pertinent. It is a question I asked of the Mayor quite recently. What will you do to encourage people to return to their places of work as much as possible? When we are talking about the economic microsystems and ecosystems of the city, it is people not being in offices and so on that basically will cause - and indeed has caused - the system to collapse completely. The point has to be...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 04 March 2021

Susan Hall AM: Chair, I wanted to say how disappointed we all are that yet again Mayor [Sadiq] Khan has declined to attend this meeting. He should be here to answer questions, but, as always, he is the missing Mayor. I did think that he was doing something that was important and was a work commitment, but I see that he is launching his campaign instead. He should know what job he has and he should be here to answer questions. However, I will address the questions I have, if I may, to Jules Pipe. Jules, I listened to the...