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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

From what I understand of it, the environmental strategies are all pretty good stuff, and I am generally happy to support them and sign-up to them, but I am getting complaints from local residents that on the ground where works are already taking place, for example, test works or earth moving works, or works along the canal network, that the customer practice that has been developed by contractors does not seem to be consistent with those strategies; Roadways have been closed unnecessarily, trees which are mature, which would appear to have a life beyond the Olympics, have been torn down...

• Reference: 2007/0013-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

What are you doing to ensure the economic boost brought to the host boroughs and the rest of London will be sustained beyond 2012?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

I take that, but I am interested in looking at ways in which the wider London community through its many strengths such as the diversity of London, the aspirations of struggling communities in London, can be built into this bid, both to give Londoners a buy-in to it and to make it an attractive bid to the IOC.