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• Reference: 2001/0074-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Developers, such as major retailers, will not always share the aspirations set out in the London Plan - particularly when these conflict with their own interests. How will you seek to influence private developers into sharing your agenda? I was very pleased to go to one of your meetings with the Southern boroughs and there was a lot of enthusiasm. It is almost sad to the extent that boroughs are obviously keen for assistance and advice in getting their master plans of projects on but it seems to me that one of the key things that needs to be done...

• Reference: 2001/0070-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Boroughs have their own Unitary Development Plans, which provide their authorities with their planning strategy and framework. How are you going to seek to integrate your work with their plans? .

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What additional facilities, support, integration, access to power and influence or whatever, would you need to be sure of actually making that difference?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Tell me if I am just being depressed and pessimistic today, but one of the things that sometimes, when I am in such a mood, strikes me about the GLA is that as an organisation which is designed to integrate policies and services and strategies, and deal with a very big picture, long term issues, we are sometimes an organisation with too many internal divisions professionally and structurally and where we have too many little big wheezes and press releases rather than substantial movement. If I was being depressed and pessimistic, I would say that this initiative looks like a...