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• Reference: 2001/0068-1
• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

How best can developers be made to better reflect the housing, employment and environmental needs of local people when planning and executing major developments? .

• Reference: 2001/0076-1
• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

To what extant do you believe that local views and priorities, as expressed through planning policies, should be respected and to what extent do you see your role as challenging parochial interests and views? .

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I may be misleading you. We can argue about how high and all of that stuff. But specifically you were talking about the skyline which is not a one dimensional thing, it is actually about the shape of it, it is about a vision of it. Now what I am really wanting is what you actually have in mind about what that vision might be and where it is determined and how toughly it can be enforced?

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What you would stop?

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

It was all going very well until you mentioned skyline. You say it is a mess but I wonder why -- it has always been a mess. The mess that we see in Canaletto may be a different sort of mess than the one we have got now, but the point I want to make really is, it has almost grown organically. What have you in mind to sort it out?

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

This is very interesting because what you seem to be suggesting - I am not going to offer judgment on it - is that we do have to make a choice and one choice is let it go and the other choice is a rather tougher, more dirigiste regulatory framework than currently exists. Now I am not going to make any analogy to soviet policies or anything like that but let's just be clear. You obviously have something in mind. How tough, how directed and by whom? Because that is obviously the way you would like to lead.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

On what planning applications have you given formal or informal advice to the Mayor?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

If I could just go on a little bit further. I have got here your designs for Greater London, it was on the website. On page 7, I have turned to it, you actually refer to a barrage. You refer to a barrage going across the River Thames, an additional barrage. I would just like to recommend to you, give advice to you formally, not to have a barrage across the Thames because it would create a great cesspit which in London would create a whole number of diseases.