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• 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: 2001/0069-1
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What changes to London would Lord Rogers like to have taken place by the end of his contract? .

• 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: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

My interest is that that has brought about a clarity which I certainly did not have and I know a number of other people did not have. But can I just ask you in two parts, can you do all that over a year, given that you have just said you started in May? Because I understand your contract is for a year. And you have talked about the SDS and we have only seen a document that is entitled "Towards the SDS" which, as I understand it, has got this ever growing life of its own. So if you...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Will you be producing a report so that we will know that this is, if you like, what Rogers did in his year with the GLA?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Lord Rogers, I thought I was just getting some sense about what I have been hearing and then I have got lost again so let me just seek to clarify. Are you saying that once you have made a decision about these two sites, are you saying that that work will then be fed into the work of the spatial development plan? In terms of your accountability I still do not get a feel in terms of where your work fits in to the strategic hold of the Authority. Is it too soon? How will you relate to the spatial...

• 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...