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• Reference: 2023/2630
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

How is the Mayor's Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation delivering for Londoners?

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Chair, and good morning, both. Liz, we were just hearing from [Lord] Peter Hendy [CBE] then that Mayoral Development Corporations (MDCs) “get things done”. According to the [Sir Bob] Kerslake Review [ of GLA Group Housing Delivery ], the OPDC “has not delivered any housing directly”. Is this something that you think is now a position that has changed and you feel more confident about delivery?

• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Hina Bokhari AM: Thank you, Chair. Liz, I was really pleased to hear that you are encouraging the right kind of developer. What measures are you putting in place to make sure that you are not working with developers who may have had a disregard for leaseholders, people who have suffered as a result of the building safety crisis?

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Elly Baker AM: Thank you, Chair. My questions are to Liz about delays to HS2 and how they might impact OPDC. Three years ago, the Mayor said that, “There are ambitious plans in place to deliver a significant number of new homes and jobs at both Old Oak Common and Euston. I am confident these can be delivered, even if there are delays to the first phase of HS2.” Are you confident now that the start date has moved from 2026 to a window of 2029 to 2033?

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much, Chair, and my question is to David. I am sorry to say that I have witnessed from you what I think is quite a poor attitude to community engagement. I have been copied in to this letter, also to you, from Professor Jennifer Robinson, who is Professor of Human Geography at University College London (UCL) and I agree with a lot of what it says. The professor raises concerns about the approach by OPDC to community engagement and says there is a need for the organisation to “repair relations” with community groups, including...

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Dr Onkar Sahota AM (Chair): I am now going to hand over the chair to Assembly Member Boff and I am asking this question as an Assembly Member for this area. You spoke earlier on that you are still working on the strategic OBC for the western land. Is this right?

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Neil Garratt AM: Afternoon. Coming back to this question of what is a good developer, one definition might be a developer that does not fit flammable cladding to the sides of buildings and, if they have done that, they commit to fixing it. Have you got a policy that developers who have not signed up to that cladding charter cannot work on your development?

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Anne Clarke AM: Thank you, Chair, and good afternoon. We have hit on a number of times the community engagement, and sadly in London you can look at plenty of examples of where developers did not get it right in major regeneration schemes. Just to follow up on some of the questions though, I am just wondering how you think you can make community engagement more accessible.

• Reference: 2017/3380
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

What are the key factors for fulfilling the OPDC's vision for a successful Old Oak Common?

• Reference: 2017/3382
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Can you guarantee that 50% of homes built on the OPDC site will be genuinely affordable?