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• 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: 2001/0065-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Do you support the Mayor's attitude to tree planting as set out in his draft bio-diversity strategy? .

• Reference: 2001/0066-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Many of London's brownfield sites are also important habitats and therefore a land-use choice will have to be made. Which should have priority, homes for people or sanctuaries for nature? .

• Reference: 2001/0067-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Allotments are a very valuable community resource in London, but are often treated as `cinderella spaces' by local authorities and sold off to make room for new developments. Do you share this opinion and does your plan for London seek to challenge this and improve allotment provision? .

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I take your point about post war development but I also bear in mind the fact that no architect has ever said that the development they built was quantity led rather than quality led. Every development that has ever been built we have been told is beautiful in its time. The problem is it does not look so fashionable 30 years later. A lot of our densely populated areas are not pleasant to live in. How do you feel we can mitigate overcrowding in a poor environment with green space, particularly given the Mayor's demands that we also produce a...

• 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: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Obviously you seem hopeful that your contract will be extended beyond the initial year and into the future to work with us. If that is the case will you be happy to work in the new GLA headquarters with the rest of us and what do you think the advantages are that we can look forward to from working in a building that is as transparent and functional as the table we are sitting at this morning?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Can you tell us what features you think the new City Hall for the Mayor and London Authority should embody and how you would have designed it if it had been your task?