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  • Chairman's Question to Guests (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 06 February 2015
    Jenny Jones AM: On this substantive issue, I am very concerned that you are actually releasing too much industrial land because the vacancy rate on industrial land has actually halved in the past 15 years and is now lower than retail vacancies. I am concerned that you are talking about surplus land when, actually, it is not surplus because small businesses still need to be near centres of population and they still need to be near town centres. I just wonder how much research you have done on this.
  • Proposal to Designate a Mayoral Development Area (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Darren Johnson
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2014
    Darren Johnson AM: I hear what you say about Wormwood Scrubs and the issue of permeability. I do not at all doubt the need to improve permeability. However, surely, this type of thing can be done through sensible negotiations between boroughs. You do not need to include it in the MDC to ensure pathways and gates to public open space, do you?
  • Proposal to Designate a Mayoral Development Area (Supplementary) [13]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2014
    Jenny Jones AM: I have not been convinced by these arguments about keeping Wormwood Scrubs open space inside the MDC. The council that currently has it in their borough is against it. The Friends of the Open Space are against it. It looks like a mayoral land grab. It does not look like a coherent plan. Sir Edward Lister (Mayor's Chief of Staff): If I may, it is a coherent plan, but they do not agree with it. Jenny Jones AM: Do you not think you should be interested in localism: that decisions for local people for local land should...
  • Zero waste / zero carbon Games (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Darren Johnson
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    It is not going to deliver unless specific projects have specific targets. You can have a high-flying overall statement, but unless specific projects deliver'
  • Zero waste / zero carbon Games (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Darren Johnson
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Have specific targets been set that apply to specific projects or to the Games as a whole?
  • Zero waste / zero carbon Games (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Darren Johnson
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Will all new facilities be powered only from renewables?
  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    You actually said, `There will be no permanent or temporary facility built in Hackney Marshes.'
  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Jenny Jones (AM): Well, that is not what local people think.
  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    `Temporary' is two years. You are moving that football club on, that's Sunday league, for two years.
  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Let us look at the cost, then. It is expensive to start taking green space and then reconstitute it. Why not just leave it and find another option?