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• Reference: 2006/0129-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

In response to the Environment Committee's Dereliction of Duty? report on brownfield development, the LDA committed to 'review of information on brownfield sites in London to establish the length of time sites have remained vacant and their potential for future use'. Can you update me on progress on this review?

• Reference: 2006/0135-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

You currently sponsor London Fashion Week through Creative London. Do you believe that it is appropriate for the London Development Agency to fund an event that promotes an unhealthy and unnatural image to young girls and women?

• Reference: 2006/0137-1
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

What does the concept of sustainable development mean in practice to an agency whose remit is essentially economic? Please give one example of the difference made by the LDA's stated commitment to sustainable development.

• Reference: 2006/0143-1
• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Would the LDA knowingly provide funding to a company that registered with Companies House that was shown as "dormant"?

• Reference: 2006/0228-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

The LDA has said that the 100-year-old Manor Gardens allotments in Newham, bequeathed by Major Villiers to be allotments in perpetuity, will have to be concreteted over to make way for a footpath needed for the four week 'green' Olympics. Manor Gardens is all about exactly what Ken Livingstone always says he's trying to encourage - healthy living, social inclusion, sustainability, eco-living, encouraging a sense of togetherness among a diverse local community. These allotments are an oasis in the middle of an industrial desert, and a real lifeline for many. Is there not some way in which destruction of this...

• Reference: 2005/0321-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

The LDA offered a firm in Marshgate Lane a site in Leyton to relocate to. The LDA bought the Leyton site a year ago at £886,667 per acre. They are now asking £1.1 million per acre. That's an increase in value of 24%. One of the companies in East London being forced to relocate bought their current site at Marshgate Lane in 2000 for £1.075 million and spent £300,000 on various improvements, making a total cost of just under £1.4 million. The LDA have offered £1.5 million for it, five years later. So the LDA are saying The Marshgate Lane...

• Reference: 2005/0304-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Can you give an update on the negotiations with local businesses in the Lower Lea Valley? How many have settled, how many will need to be Compulsory purchased?

• Reference: 2005/0333-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

How many local firms in East London do you think will be able to meet the requirements to fit within the LOCOG's Sustainable Management System? What plans are being made to ensure that local companies are provided with practical help and guidance so that they a) understand the tender requirements; b) are provided with training and support to complete the necessary tender documents?