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• Reference: 2001/0052-1
• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What evidence do you have that Londoners want to live in high density areas? .

• Reference: 2001/0056-1
• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Given the recent concerns about emissions from incinerators, what do you think is the future for combined heat and power plants in London? Where do you think they should be located? (Cities for a small planet, 1997) .

• Reference: 2001/0058-1
• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

In a recent New York Times article it was pointed out that communities are becoming more racially segregated. One of your fellow Mayoral Advisers has called for racially segregated schools. How can the London Plan contribute to developing London as a truly multi-cultural, multi-racial city rather than a patchwork quilt of ethnic enclaves? .

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

If I can explain my prejudice in terms of this. First of all the Georgian density, are people talking about density in Georgian times with all those servants crammed into the cellars or are they talking about Georgian density now? But my real prejudice is that the real high densities I have seen are system-built, architect-designed estates, where certain categories of people were ghettoised, and are still ghettoised, in buildings, which when people have got a choice, they get out of as rapidly as possible. Now my worry is if we go down this high-density argument it is those people...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

An interesting point about quality and density, which obviously is relevant particularly to the spatial development policies and the proposals in the Towards the London Plan document. I would be interested to know to what extent you have been consulted by the Mayor on the proposals document that we have currently got, Towards the London Plan, what input you have had into that?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

That is helpful. One particular issue that concerns us already is the question of how we actually give developers incentives to build the sort of high quality and acceptable new developments that we want which are also affordable. I know that the Urban White Paper, in response to the Urban Task Force Report, argued that we would not get the urban renaissance that we are hoping to see without incentives for developers to build in the cities. What specific incentives should the Mayor be giving developers to build in London?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Do you think that perhaps the way in which the targets for affordable housing are currently framed - 50% divided: 35% for rent, 15% for intermediate - is that likely to be an incentive or a disincentive to developers?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I hope you are going to be perhaps a little bit more involved in the London Plan in the future. One thing that concerns me and perhaps other members about the London Plan is this: you clearly have not been consulted by the Mayor on the basic underlying assumptions behind the Plan.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Would you think it appropriate that in fact his Chief Advisor on Architecture and Urbanism ought to be consulted before they are firmed up?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Do you find the assertion that there are only two strategic choices, and we have to go for the very bullish growth choice, one that you are comfortable with, with your background in architecture and your understanding of the history of urbanism in the UK?