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  • Priorities for the Coming Year (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    Can I just ask what you and Visit London are doing about increasing the number of hotel rooms in London? Particularly as we move forward to 2012, it is going to be a very important issue. A very important issue would be the standard of these rooms and also the cost. Will you be investigating hotel companies that actually put their room costs up to an exorbitant rate as they move towards 2012?
  • Barriers to Employment (Supplementary) [21]

    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 11 October 2006
    It is not the fault of the education system. The educators will know that if young people have manual skills and are not academic, they can, at the end of their education, push them in the that direction, but there is nowhere to push them to because there are not enough training places. We do not have trade colleges now, we do not have apprenticeship schemes. It is really quite serious and it is about time certain people woke up to this. The Learning and Skills Council have done a very, very poor job in this area and we cannot...
  • Alternatives to New Building

    • Reference: 2001/0054-1
    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 11 July 2001
    In 1997 you said: "Organisations such as LOTS (Living Over The Shop) claim that at least 200,000 permanent homes could be provided above shops and commercial premises in inner London alone." (Cities for a Small Planet, p 119) Why has this option been largely ignored in the Mayor's Towards the London Plan? .
  • High Density Housing (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 11 July 2001
    Lord Rogers, you did mention Roehampton which is in my patch. I am not only a Wandsworth Councillor but a Putney Councillor. I have spent a lot of time in Roehampton and when it was built, I think by Herbert Morison, who had the view - rather paternalistic - that people who were desperate for homes did not mind living in matchboxes on top of each other as long as they could look out on a green aspect. Well I can assure you that really is not so. I have to say that Wandsworth Council has poured money into Roehampton...
  • Conflict of Interests (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 11 July 2001
    This will be a question but, Lord Rogers, can I quote a poem of John Betjeman to you, only one little line? "Cathedrals will be turned into area cultural centres, lectures on civic duty will be given" - well Brian has tried to give you one - "however, "So don't encourage tourists, stay your hand until we have really got the country planned" So let us put London in there. What I want to ask you is, who do you think Londoners can trust most on aesthetic matters? Poet laureate, a planner or an architect? And I am asking this...
  • Conflict of Interests (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 11 July 2001
    What about the issue between planners and architects on aesthetic values?
  • Spatial Development Strategy (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 11 July 2001
    If I turn to the SDS on the paragraphs on London's homes, it talks about "future residential development will be built to maximise the use of scarce land". On the other hand is that absolutely necessary? What do you think about adding in the number of voids or the number of vacancies local authority wise in inner London and outer London? I have the figure for the end of the financial year 2000 and there were something like 93,700 properties that were vacant, homes that were vacant, local authority, housing associations, private rental. Should that not have been included in...