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• Reference: 2015/3650
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Do you accept that Article 4 directions - under which local planning authorities may seek to reimpose the requirement for planning permission for any proposed change of use from office to residential - are a cumbersome and costly tool for boroughs to use and will not be appropriate in all circumstances?

• Reference: 2015/3653
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Further to your decision to call-in an application for the redevelopment of land at Norton Folgate, Spitalfields, will you undertake to visit the site and meet with representatives from the Spitalfields Trust and other interested parties before the public hearing on this planning application?

• Reference: 2015/3663
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

How will you ensure that the application of the Agent of Change principle will not deter developers from creating desperately needed housing, particularly on sites they already own but may envisage future problems?

• Reference: 2015/3870
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Is TfL taking any positive steps, such as working with homeless charities, to reduce the number of people sleeping rough in the Edgware Road subways under the Marylebone flyover?

• Reference: 2015/3873
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Beyond Renzo Piano's much publicised 65-storey tower proposal in Paddington, does the area not deserve a skyline policy? Particularly in regard to the unattractive skyline on either side of the Marylebone flyover.

• Reference: 2015/3818
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

In the DCLG consultation; 'Pay to stay: Fairer rents in social housing' the Government states that "tenants in social housing should not always benefit automatically from subsidised rents" and will therefore increase rents on households with incomes over £40,000 in London., How many Londoners will be at risk of higher rents or the loss of their homes as a result of this?

• Reference: 2015/3819
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Given the revenue from the Government's 'pay to stay' rent hike will go straight to the Treasury, with only Housing Associations allowed to build new homes from the revenue, how many affordable homes that could otherwise have been built in London if such proceeds were retained in London would not be built?

• Reference: 2015/3820
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Is it fair that as a consequence of the government's 'pay to stay' proposals social housing tenants in London will be priced out of their own homes for improving their incomes?

• Reference: 2015/3823
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Did Derwent London or its agent make any representations to you or to the GLA or any of its officers requesting you to take over the planning application for Monmouth House?

• Reference: 2015/3824
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

The Housing and Planning Bill will give the Mayor of London power to establish Strategically Important Development Zones. How will these operate?