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• Reference: 2017/3381
• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

When will the OPDC own sufficient land resources to deliver 25k homes?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Joanne McCartney AM: Thank you. I want to ask about the National Audit Office (NAO) report last year. It was reported in that report that the DfT had asked HS2 to assess the impact of extending the timetable for phase one up to 12 months. I am just wondering what impact that would have on your development schedule?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. I wondered if I could ask you, Liz, about the governance issues. In particular, are you confident that the OPDC has the correct governance arrangements and the capacity to simultaneously negotiate public land transfer and co-ordinate the development now occurring on private land?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Len Duvall AM: Can we go back to the Crossrail depot? Do you both agree with Sir Terry Farrell’s [British architect] comments when he says the failure to plan to deck over the Crossrail depot represents London’s worst cock-up in 50 years?

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Navin Shah AM: Thank you, Chair. May I raise an issue about locality versus density impact? The question is: how can the OPDC produce a successful local destination from the start of this project, given the tensions that there are or there will be resulting from the densities and heights required to fund this national rail interchange?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Nicky Gavron AM: Good morning, Liz and Victoria. I want to ask a few questions about the industry and business premises and land in the OPDC area. You have there the largest concentration, probably, in western Europe of business and, broadly speaking, industrial premises and land. It is, arguably, the engine of London and the UK’s industrial economy. It is very farsighted of you that you have taken out an Article 4 direction to block the change of use to housing overnight from warehousing and from offices. When did that come into force as a direction?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Andrew Boff AM: Developers and designers and landowners effectively will get away with what they can in terms of developments. Is there not some advantage in advance of developments being submitted for planning approval of saying what the parameters of such a development are going to be?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Thinking about evacuation, I am sure you will agree it is important that the extent to which people are educated in advance of the crisis about what is expected of them will help in the management at the time. Looking at the Preparing for Emergencies booklet, which has been mentioned, that has three generic bullet points on this issue, and if you compare that with what is available to New Yorkers, in terms of a very detailed guide, with evacuation there absolutely, all sorts of things, down to what to do with your pets, which I am sure is a...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Bob Neill (AM): I am sure that is right. It is a shame that GOL are not here so that we could have heard it be said. Brian Coleman (Chair): Indeed, we wish Mr Kowalczyk was here, so we could pay tribute to him this morning, but unfortunately he is not. I am sure, however, his spies are in the audience somewhere. Can I just ask, Mr Mayer, are you saying we need, in your professional opinion as an officer ' or 'mere bureaucrat,' as you describe yourself ' that we need an office of emergency planning in London?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Let me share your optimism and your confidence ' which I think I do, really ' for what would happen in, say, the first 48 hours, when we deal with the immediate crisis. What I would like to probe is what happens after the first, say, 48 hours, when we really are getting into the recovery period, when it is, perhaps, less of a crisis and more of an emergency. Who is going to be taking charge then? What is the role of the Mayor and the GLA, and what are the roles of the individual London boroughs? Who is...