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Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [1]
- Question by: Damian Hockney
- Meeting date: 08 September 2005
Tony (Winterbottom), I have something else. The Mayor has just admitted that you use `expensive lawyers.' Those are his very words. When over 100 firms, then, employ lawyers to defend themselves in these situations in order to defend themselves and real jobs ' 11,000 real jobs in London ' they are then briefed against in the press. They are then briefed against and accused of being all sorts of things, which they are now completely fed up with ' that they are a handful, greedy; over 100 businesses employing 11,000 people are greedy. They are demonised, and then the lawyers...
Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [9]
- Question by: Damian Hockney
- Meeting date: 08 September 2005
Do you see my point, Tony (Winterbottom)?
Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [10]
- Question by: Damian Hockney
- Meeting date: 08 September 2005
Like-for-like ' is that like-for-like? I do not think so.
Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [15]
- Question by: Damian Hockney
- Meeting date: 08 September 2005
One of these guys bought his land for £1.25 million. That was three years ago, and then it was valued by Porter Glenny, your people, at £1.071 million, a drop of 24%, when all the other land in the area, because of the Olympics, is going up.
Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [19]
- Question by: Damian Hockney
- Meeting date: 08 September 2005
One thing that I am concerned about: you talked about compensation and about being fair and within codes. What does this mean, in real terms, to the businesses affected? I will explain the reason why I am asking this. Many of the businesses have come to me ' and, in fact, come to many fellow Assembly Members ' and have made clear that the terms they are being offered mean they will have to spend anything up to 20%, 30%, or 40% more from either existing reserves or raised money to be able to continue on the promised like-for-like basis...
Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [21]
- Question by: Damian Hockney
- Meeting date: 08 September 2005
You say `overpay.'
Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [22]
- Question by: Damian Hockney
- Meeting date: 08 September 2005
This is not like-for-like, is it? I am looking at a number of businesses, like Sortex, M Laurier and Sons, all of whom have made public statements, `We would be delighted with just simply like-for-like. We do not want to make any money. We were promised that.' What they are going to be, if anything ' £600,000 short. Let me just put it to you: if I came to you and wanted to take your flat in the area or house in the area, and then what happened was that in the process of all this, I took it from...
Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [26]
- Question by: Damian Hockney
- Meeting date: 08 September 2005
Like (Robert) Mugabe (president of Zimbabwe) ' exactly.
Infrastructure in the Thames Gateway (Supplementary) [2]
- Question by: Mike Tuffrey
- Meeting date: 17 March 2004
A small point, returning to this question of the utilities infrastructure and whether you are in this rich mix of cooks and broths and magic wands talking to the regulators, Ofcom, Ofgem and all the other `ofs', because in the old days the utilities, the phone, gas and electricity companies would have been able to put the infrastructure in ahead of demand. Now they are working on a private model they can only put the investment in if there is a sure payback, unless the regulators tell them they have to do that. So are the regulators part of this?
Infrastructure in the Thames Gateway (Supplementary) [12]
- Question by: Mike Tuffrey
- Meeting date: 17 March 2004
I saw that the LDA was putting a grant into some electricity substation, I cannot remember the details, and I thought `why is the LDA paying for electricity infrastructure?'