Search questions

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

You talk about the huge burden that falls on the Mayor's sole shoulders and that you are important to him because you help him to carry that burden. Isn't the real problem that the Mayor has to do with his non-membership of any of the mainstream political parties? He's here as an independent and he cannot actually rely on any of the political groupings to help him shoulder the burden in the usual accountable, transparent way. He has to rely on people like you precisely because he has no relationship with any of the other political parties here.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

Why is it then that the Mayor does seem to have made it very clear that he'd actually rather like to go back inside the Labour Party? Clearly, he is finding it a strain to carry this entire burden without party machine support of any particular party.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

Let me put it this way to you. You talked about other mayors elsewhere. Actually, any mayor I can think of - whether they be in Paris where they are drawn from the successful party, or indeed New York where you have either a Republican or a Democrat - they are able to draw on their own party resources and loyalties which are transparent to the people who are then electing the parties. I put it to you that one of the reasons why he couldn't use the services of his Deputy in his absence was precisely because it would...

• Reference: 2001/0055-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

In 1992 you wrote with Mark Fisher: "Severely limiting cars in London could be effective only if investment were made in high quality public alternatives." (A New London, Penguin London 1992 p xxiii). What investment has been made in public transport in the last four years and what investment do you believe is still needed before car use can be reduced? (A New London, 1992) .

• Reference: 2001/0059-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What discussions have you had with a) the Mayor, b) the Government, c) relevant local Councils and d) possible sponsors about turning the north Thames embankment from Westminster to Blackfriars Bridge into a park? (A New London, 1992) .

• Reference: 2001/0060-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What discussions have you had with a) the Mayor, b) the Government, c) the relevant local Council and d) possible sponsors about creating a park linking the Albert Memorial to the Albert Hall and putting the A4 into a tunnel running beneath it? (A New London, 1992) .

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I was specifically referring of course to the fact that you play a link between investment in public transport and the reduction in car use. You are saying we need an awful lot more, so in your view an awful lot more needs to be done before you would see car use being reduced?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I for one feel slightly concerned at the way buildings can be spot listed, bringing all sorts of inconveniences on the way with it. But I wondered whether there might be a way of evening up the playing field, if I can put it that way. The Chief Executive of one of London's larger estates suggested to me, what about the idea of "black marking" buildings? Some of those buildings that have been left standing idle, often falling into ruin, and are real eyesores. There should be some system of "black marking" them for demolition unless a case can be...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I wonder whether you can understand the concerns that I have expressed in the past about the role you play in advising the Mayor and also the fact that the Mayor will at some stage look at every UDP that has to go before his office. I am thinking in particular of Westminster's which came back from the Mayor's office with remarks written all over the place about the fact that he could not find their UDP acceptable unless they were going to go forward with very tall buildings in the Paddington area, and of course your name crops up...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

So you can assure me this morning that there will be no conversations of any sort whatsoever between you and the Mayor concerning areas where the UDP is being considered by the Mayor?