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• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Chair. My colleague just briefly brought up the London Youth Games there and I wanted to quickly confirm, hopefully, from either Lyn or Jules whether, with young children being able to use the Olympic Stadium and facilities over the last ten years, that legacy will continue and they will continue to use those facilities over the next ten years and beyond.

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Andrew Boff AM (Deputy Chair): Mayor Fiaz, [there have been] no new housing developments on the Carpenters Estate for ten years. Are you proud of that record?

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Sakina Sheikh AM: Thank you, Chair. Good afternoon to the panel; it is great to have you join us here today to discuss the legacy of the London Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games. You are absolutely right, Jules [Pipe CBE], about needing to assess this on a regional, local, and national scale in terms of what we have achieved. But I am going to be zoning in to the local a little bit. I wanted to start with you, Lyn, about asking has the Olympic Park met the regeneration commitments for the host boroughs? Then I might move on...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you very much indeed. I am going to ask my first question to the Deputy Mayor, given your contribution at the start, because section 1.4 of the original bid document promised these four great legacies: sport, community, environment and economy. I really want to try to focus on sport today. Let us look at the Olympic Stadium. The legacy for sport really centred around the Stadium itself. The bid document, if you look at it, promised conversion to a 25,000-seat multipurpose venue with athletics at its core. It will become a house of sport with...

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Sakina Sheikh AM: It is great to have you here to be reflecting on what has been achieved by the corporations. Myself and my colleagues will be spending the next couple of hours drilling down into some of the details to ensure some of the fantastic things that you have outlined hold tight in their validity, which I am sure they do, but we welcome more detail.I wanted to open something slightly broader and talk about the transition in terms of planning powers. I would like you to outline in as much detail as possible how the LLDC will ensure...

• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Hina Bokhari AM: I am going to talk about the topical and serious issue of sewage. In 2019, raw sewage flowed from a Thames Water overflow pipe into the wetlands, running into the canal and the River Lea on the Olympic Park a staggering 91 times over 1,026 hours. There are now reports of raw sewage once again pouring into the Park’s water network, flowing from the recent heavy rains. Not only does this hit the reputation of the Park as a welcoming, clean and attractive place, but the wetlands particularly were intended to be an eco-friendly area for animal...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Emma Best AM: I would just like to start off talking about housing delivery. According to recent figures from the Homes for Londoners Board, just 923 homes were started on LLDC land within the past five years. Lyn, why do you think housing starts seem to have stalled and what has been done and what is being done to address this?

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Siân Berry AM: I want to start with some questions for Lyn on transport and traffic reduction. I want to focus my questions on strategic journeys into the LLDC area and outside of it, not the local journeys, but those longer journeys into and out of the area. We saw a huge number of those for the Olympics itself, but there were also longer-term venues that attract people from longer distances, the shopping centre, the sporting venues, the new cultural venues coming up. Do you have a current assessment of the overall car travel mode share of these strategic journeys...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Tony Devenish AM: In my five years on the Assembly, of all the Mayoral bodies it comes up time and time again that LLDC in terms of community engagement is not terribly responsive. “Opaque” is another word I have been asked to use, “tick box consultation”. I wanted to read back to you a letter that one of your team had written to a community group only very recently where you had to hold your hands up because you had not uploaded an awful lot of documents related to the application on the online planning register. You did not apologise...

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Caroline Russell AM: Lyn, this is a question for you and I would like to talk about the toilets. This is an issue that the [London Assembly’s] Health Committee has been investigating and we are going to be publishing our report next week. From the feedback that we have received and from the available data on the issue, we know that London is very short of loos. The Mayor has laid out some clear direction in his new London Plan on toilets, although he has not actually stipulated the numbers of toilets that we need. Can you outline the provision...