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• Reference: 2020/0267
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 January 2020

Following the Examination in Public, the Inspectors recommended that Mayoral Development Corporations (MDCs) should be apportioned their own waste responsibility, rather than allocating it to boroughs. Your response to the Panel’s recommendations stated that future Plan iterations would give full consideration to apportioning waste to MDCs. Given the lifetime of this draft new Plan, how will you work with the host boroughs to ensure that the MDCs’ waste will be processed while also meeting your target for London to be waste self-sufficient?

• Reference: 2020/0268
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 January 2020

I fully support your continued opposition to fracking in London. Are you also lobbying Government to ensure that national policy reflects your strong opposition in London?

• Reference: 2020/0269
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 January 2020

Are you satisfied that the progress on active and sustainable travel revealed in TfL’s most recent Annual Travel report is on track to meet your 80% target by 2041?

• Reference: 2020/0270
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 January 2020

TfL’s most recent Annual Travel Report showed that the number of kilometres cycled increased by almost five per cent in 2018 from the previous year but cycling accounted for only 2.5 per cent of all trips within London in 2018, up by just 0.1 per cent, on 2017. What is driving this discrepancy and how are you working to increase cycling’s trip-based mode share?

• Reference: 2020/0271
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 January 2020

Why has the journey stage-based mode share of walking gone down slightly since 2000?

• Reference: 2020/0272
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 January 2020

Car ownership has remained stable across London since 2006. What projections have you made on the impact of the ULEZ on car ownership?

• Reference: 2020/0273
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 January 2020

We know that the ULEZ will reduce car traffic and congestion. Have you examined the potential for making better use of land freed up by lower demand for parking, given lower vehicle traffic as a result of the ULEZ?

• Reference: 2020/0274
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 January 2020

Recent reports from a former UK Chief Scientific Advisor stated that half of UK farmland needs to be converted to woodland and nature in order to tackle the climate emergency, and that 20% of this loss of farmland could be compensated for with increased investment in vertical farming. In the context of Brexit, are there opportunities for supporting these innovative farming practices in London?

• Reference: 2020/0275
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 January 2020

Do you have an estimate for the proportion of new homes built that include any private outside space as part of the property (garden, balcony etc), and what proportion meets the 5 square metres minimum set out in new London Plan policy D6 F9? If not, how do you intend to monitor the effectiveness of this policy in the future?

• Reference: 2020/0276
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 January 2020

Given that planning applications will include this data, could you provide a figure for the net additional play and recreational space provided on-site by schemes referable to the Mayor in each of the last four years?