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• Reference: 2001/0074-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Developers, such as major retailers, will not always share the aspirations set out in the London Plan - particularly when these conflict with their own interests. How will you seek to influence private developers into sharing your agenda? I was very pleased to go to one of your meetings with the Southern boroughs and there was a lot of enthusiasm. It is almost sad to the extent that boroughs are obviously keen for assistance and advice in getting their master plans of projects on but it seems to me that one of the key things that needs to be done...

• Reference: 2001/0054-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

In 1997 you said: "Organisations such as LOTS (Living Over The Shop) claim that at least 200,000 permanent homes could be provided above shops and commercial premises in inner London alone." (Cities for a Small Planet, p 119) Why has this option been largely ignored in the Mayor's Towards the London Plan? .

• Reference: 2001/0070-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Boroughs have their own Unitary Development Plans, which provide their authorities with their planning strategy and framework. How are you going to seek to integrate your work with their plans? .

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Lord Rogers, you did mention Roehampton which is in my patch. I am not only a Wandsworth Councillor but a Putney Councillor. I have spent a lot of time in Roehampton and when it was built, I think by Herbert Morison, who had the view - rather paternalistic - that people who were desperate for homes did not mind living in matchboxes on top of each other as long as they could look out on a green aspect. Well I can assure you that really is not so. I have to say that Wandsworth Council has poured money into Roehampton...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

This will be a question but, Lord Rogers, can I quote a poem of John Betjeman to you, only one little line? "Cathedrals will be turned into area cultural centres, lectures on civic duty will be given" - well Brian has tried to give you one - "however, "So don't encourage tourists, stay your hand until we have really got the country planned" So let us put London in there. What I want to ask you is, who do you think Londoners can trust most on aesthetic matters? Poet laureate, a planner or an architect? And I am asking this...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What about the issue between planners and architects on aesthetic values?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What additional facilities, support, integration, access to power and influence or whatever, would you need to be sure of actually making that difference?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

If I turn to the SDS on the paragraphs on London's homes, it talks about "future residential development will be built to maximise the use of scarce land". On the other hand is that absolutely necessary? What do you think about adding in the number of voids or the number of vacancies local authority wise in inner London and outer London? I have the figure for the end of the financial year 2000 and there were something like 93,700 properties that were vacant, homes that were vacant, local authority, housing associations, private rental. Should that not have been included in...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Tell me if I am just being depressed and pessimistic today, but one of the things that sometimes, when I am in such a mood, strikes me about the GLA is that as an organisation which is designed to integrate policies and services and strategies, and deal with a very big picture, long term issues, we are sometimes an organisation with too many internal divisions professionally and structurally and where we have too many little big wheezes and press releases rather than substantial movement. If I was being depressed and pessimistic, I would say that this initiative looks like a...