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• Reference: 2001/0073-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Without serious resources, is not strategic urban design a waste of time? .

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

If I could take the liberty of asking a question I asked of witnesses at the SDS. For probably a majority of Londoners the key views nowadays are the London skyline as you steam down the M11, or the site at Canary Wharf as you come down the A20 off the M25, so they are very distant views and they are very much car driven views, and I think many people would think that they are enhanced by high buildings and the more sort of long distance skyline. Do you have a view on that?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I know that you and I have a common interest in the Thames Gateway area, but it is a specific follow up I think to Meg's question. I believe your partnership may have been tendering for work within the Gateway area and that it may have been commissioned to do work by one of the major landowners within the Thames Gateway area. Now to an unsophisticated Londoner like myself, there is prima facie a problem there, because the Gateway is the key regeneration area in the Mayor's strategy. You are the Mayor's key advisor on regenerational planning in that area...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Just to follow up quickly, I have a feeling that, as much as I admire your work, that maybe you cannot actually do this job as the Mayor's advisor. Is it the case that your firm has been retained to do work at Canary Wharf for example? Were you retained after your appointment by the Mayor as his advisor?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Are you happy to publish a register of all of the sites in London where you are?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Do you accept that a greater degree of publicity and scrutiny should be available in your case than for any other architects?