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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: 2001/0073-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Without serious resources, is not strategic urban design a waste of time? .

• 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.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

If I could take the liberty of asking a question I asked of witnesses at the SDS. For probably a majority of Londoners the key views nowadays are the London skyline as you steam down the M11, or the site at Canary Wharf as you come down the A20 off the M25, so they are very distant views and they are very much car driven views, and I think many people would think that they are enhanced by high buildings and the more sort of long distance skyline. Do you have a view on that?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I know that you and I have a common interest in the Thames Gateway area, but it is a specific follow up I think to Meg's question. I believe your partnership may have been tendering for work within the Gateway area and that it may have been commissioned to do work by one of the major landowners within the Thames Gateway area. Now to an unsophisticated Londoner like myself, there is prima facie a problem there, because the Gateway is the key regeneration area in the Mayor's strategy. You are the Mayor's key advisor on regenerational planning in that area...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Just to follow up quickly, I have a feeling that, as much as I admire your work, that maybe you cannot actually do this job as the Mayor's advisor. Is it the case that your firm has been retained to do work at Canary Wharf for example? Were you retained after your appointment by the Mayor as his advisor?