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• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Steve O’Connell AM: On this side we welcome the alterations that are designed to retain as much as possible our higher London standards and apply consistency across our city. A question I have for you, however, is for the first time there is a requirement for developers to consider installing lifts in developments below four storeys. The Planning Committee had some concerns around that initially and we sought some clarification around this policy. Clearly one of the risks would be by adding potential costs to the developer they may be incentivised to increase the size of the buildings and/or potentially...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Steve O’Connell AM: Deputy Mayor, you will not be surprised to know that on this side we do welcome these relaxations. These are modest, however. It is interesting that colleagues are getting rather agitated over what we feel is too modest. I, indeed, had a report published last year that called for parking standards to be abolished in outer London and for outer London boroughs to be able to refuse planning permission based on insufficient parking. Clearly this does not go that far. If, indeed, my proposals were on the table I would understand colleagues’ agitation around that. That is...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Andrew Boff AM: Sir Edward, are you aware of a place called Barking Riverside?

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

Local committees under the ODA, did you say earlier?

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

Is there a declared date for that to happen, or is this going to be a gradual process? We have already heard that the position over the land acquisition is not completely clear and is in a process of negotiation.

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

Would you not agree that we have five layers of bureaucracy already in this structure chart that we have seen? That is before some of these organisations come into being. There is also a tremendous amount of confusion ' certainly in our minds ' as to what these various different bodies are going to do. It therefore suggests that it is going to be difficult, if not impossible, for this Assembly to properly scrutinise this work. The suggestion is very clear that the attempt is being made to obscure the whole thing, so that if and when anything goes wrong...

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

Mr Mayor, can we come back to the issue of, then, what is the role of the LDA in all this, and where do they fit in the reporting structure?

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

We then have local committees that are going to be in operation under the ODA. Is that correct?

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

How does that differ, then, from the Olympic Steering Group?

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

Thank you, Mr Mayor. I have studied the organisation plan here, and it does tend to look rather confused. Perhaps you can help clarify some of that confusion, because clearly we have a structure that we need to understand, so that we can scrutinise what work is being done. Can you tell me what the ODA board is actually going to do?