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• Reference: 2017/0751
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 08 March 2017

With much of London’s industrial heartland being replaced by blocks of flats, what guarantees can the OPDC give to the many thriving businesses around Old Oak Common and Park Royal who face an end to their livelihoods through relocation?

• Reference: 2017/0750
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 08 March 2017

How will you ensure that the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) engages with diverse groups of Londoners?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 08 March 2017

My question is to Victoria first of all. Given the timetable for the delivery of housing at Old Oak and the Mayor’s long-term strategic target of 50% affordable housing, how is the OPDC maximising affordable development right from the outset?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 08 March 2017

Leonie Cooper AM: Thank you, Chairman. Mine is about the exemplar development in terms of the environmental ambitions, and so perhaps Victoria would like to start.

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 08 March 2017

Navin Shah AM: Thank you, Chair. Will the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) and planning agreements be sufficient to deliver the substantial amount of social infrastructure that will be required for the development?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 08 March 2017

Nicky Gavron AM: Victoria, you have given us quite a lot of context with this exchange. I want to go on talking about the industrial site. Park Royal is probably the largest strategic industrial location in the whole of Europe and it is definitely the industrial engine of the London economy and therefore a huge contributor to the UK economy. Everything you are saying about protecting it - and I really welcome what you were saying about the article 4 direction - and strengthening it is really important. You have talked about relocating some of the industries from Old Oak...

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 08 March 2017

Caroline Russell AM: For the Chief Executive, will you meet with Will Norman, the Mayor’s Walking and Cycling Commissioner, to discuss how Old Oak Common can meet the Mayor’s Healthy Streets objectives, which include working for a diverse range of Londoners

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 08 March 2017

Nicky Gavron AM: This is a question I was out of time on that I would like to ask. During the last mayoralty, there was a general perception that Old Oak and Park Royal would probably be a rather dull development with residential units and commercial units and so on but that it would not really have a star attraction. Now there has been a lot of talk about Queens Park Rangers going there and a stadium-led regeneration with everything from casinos to concert halls and, recently, there were press reports on a study you were doing on something called...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Finally, you mentioned as well that it is not just about tackling the issue of low pay here, but it is making sure that people are paid a decent wage for all work done in relation to the Olympics. Therefore, in terms of merchandise being imported and so on, will you be making sure that there are guarantees that that is not through sweatshop labour, and that there are principles of fair trade, fair pay, and so on incorporated into that?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Would you not agree with the me that, actually, the approach to take now is to sweep away this bureaucracy and have exactly what you have said: a simple organisation that everyone can understand, so if things go wrong, we know who to look to, rather than it being obscured all over the place?