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• Reference: 2001/0080-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

To what extent will the work of the Architecture and Urbanism Unit be supported by consultants? How much will this cost and what steps will be taken to ensure that conflicts of interest do not arise? .

• Reference: 2001/0085-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Will the Architecture and Urbanism Unit be involved in a possible bid to bring the Olympics to London? .

• Reference: 2001/0086-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Do you feel that an event such as the Olympics would offer the opportunity of an urban renaissance in substantial swathes of London? (Sally Hamwee) .

• Reference: 2001/0095-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

How important is the preservation of views to urban design? .

• 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? .

• 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: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Would it be right, though I do not much like the word myself, to say that one needs to have a holistic approach then?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

We have heard from you this morning that views are important. But also that views change. In a world where one has to deal both with the overall plan and then with individual development control applications, how can we ensure that in getting from one to the other we are not ruining the city? I do not know how to reconcile statements that views are important and looking after views is important and also that views can be allowed to change. I do not know what the mechanisms are that should be applied.