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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: 2001/0058-1
• 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? .

• Reference: 2001/0061-1
• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

In your work with Mark Fisher you stated: "...councillors are ill-qualified to judge complex planning issues and rarely have the professional back-up they need." (p xxxiii) Do you believe this judgement should apply to the Mayor and Assembly members and, if so, what can be done to remedy our lack of qualification? (A New London, 1992) .

• 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: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Lord Rogers, you are on a 12-month contract for a fee of, I believe, £130,000. Do you think that is value for money for Londoners?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I think the problem is the GLA does not think it is worth it but the Mayor thinks it is. It does seem extraordinary. Do you believe in civic duty, Lord Rogers?