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• Reference: 2017/0751
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 08 March 2017

With much of London’s industrial heartland being replaced by blocks of flats, what guarantees can the OPDC give to the many thriving businesses around Old Oak Common and Park Royal who face an end to their livelihoods through relocation?

• Reference: 2017/0750
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 08 March 2017

How will you ensure that the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) engages with diverse groups of Londoners?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 08 March 2017

My question is to Victoria first of all. Given the timetable for the delivery of housing at Old Oak and the Mayor’s long-term strategic target of 50% affordable housing, how is the OPDC maximising affordable development right from the outset?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 08 March 2017

Leonie Cooper AM: Thank you, Chairman. Mine is about the exemplar development in terms of the environmental ambitions, and so perhaps Victoria would like to start.

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 08 March 2017

Navin Shah AM: Thank you, Chair. Will the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) and planning agreements be sufficient to deliver the substantial amount of social infrastructure that will be required for the development?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 08 March 2017

Nicky Gavron AM: Victoria, you have given us quite a lot of context with this exchange. I want to go on talking about the industrial site. Park Royal is probably the largest strategic industrial location in the whole of Europe and it is definitely the industrial engine of the London economy and therefore a huge contributor to the UK economy. Everything you are saying about protecting it - and I really welcome what you were saying about the article 4 direction - and strengthening it is really important. You have talked about relocating some of the industries from Old Oak...

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 08 March 2017

Caroline Russell AM: For the Chief Executive, will you meet with Will Norman, the Mayor’s Walking and Cycling Commissioner, to discuss how Old Oak Common can meet the Mayor’s Healthy Streets objectives, which include working for a diverse range of Londoners

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 08 March 2017

Nicky Gavron AM: This is a question I was out of time on that I would like to ask. During the last mayoralty, there was a general perception that Old Oak and Park Royal would probably be a rather dull development with residential units and commercial units and so on but that it would not really have a star attraction. Now there has been a lot of talk about Queens Park Rangers going there and a stadium-led regeneration with everything from casinos to concert halls and, recently, there were press reports on a study you were doing on something called...

• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 24 October 2012

Stephen Knight (AM): To pick you up on the point you have just made around the high property values in London, compared, I believe with most other developed countries, we have very few property and wealth taxes in this country; we predominantly focus on income and sales taxes. I just wondered to what extent you think the high cost of housing in London is partly driven by the fact that it is a tax free growth area for people, by which I mean it is a tax free investment and therefore that has partly driven the speculation that has driven...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 24 October 2012

Goodness me. I think this is a very worthwhile debate although it may seem a bit arid to some observers and we need to make sure we do not get too academic about it. Would you agree with me that around the world probably the single greatest source of income for city governments tends to be, in one shape or form, from properties? You have said a couple of times now that property taxes are so visible and so potent that virtually all political parties play 'chicken' with each other. Well, the opposite of 'chicken'; they are scared to look...