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  • Question and Answer Session: Olympic Park Legacy Company

    • Reference: 2011/0075-1
    • Question by: Dee Doocey
    • Meeting date: 16 March 2011
    Dee Doocey (Chair): Can I formally welcome Baroness Ford and Andrew Altman to the meeting. Baroness Ford is the Chair of the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) and Andrew Altman is the Chief Executive. Thank you very much for coming. If I could explain how the session is going to work; I understand that Margaret and Andrew are going to give a five minute opening statement. I will then ask a Member from each Group to put a question in the following order: the Labour Group, followed by the Liberal Democrat Group, followed by the Conservative Group, followed by the...
  • Question and Answer Session: Olympic Park Legacy Company (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 16 March 2011
    Can I touch on the sustainability assurance aspects. The Commission for a Sustainable 2012 does not just do the construction and the staging of the Games, it includes legacy, albeit that process is going to come to an end in about 2013. The first question, for the record, is do you welcome that scrutiny and will you cooperate fully with the Commission for a Sustainable 2012 for the legacy aspects?
  • Question and Answer Session: Olympic Park Legacy Company (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 16 March 2011
    I wanted to look at the housing side of what you are doing and dig into the finances behind that will underpin the proportions between social affordable, owner occupied and, indeed, private rented possibly. When you were here last time we talked a lot about the remediation and the 60 centimetres and the impact of switching to the housing that you gave us the pictures for where there is a garden at the back. Can you update us on your financial modelling about the additional costs that are associated with remediation for family sized housing and how that impacts the...
  • Question and Answer Session: Olympic Park Legacy Company (Supplementary) [13]

    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 16 March 2011
    We have heard a lot about employment opportunities for local people. Will you be building any requirement into any of the contracts such as the construction ones to specifically employ and train local people - a bit like Crossrail has been able to do?
  • Future of Olympic Stadium

    • Reference: 2010/0049-1
    • Question by: Dee Doocey
    • Meeting date: 10 March 2010
    What are you doing to end speculation over the future of the Olympic Stadium?
  • Olympic Land Debt (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 10 March 2010
    I want just to pursue this issue of what the land is fit for. You talked about longer term development and you talked about family housing and so forth. We had a meeting of [the Assembly's] Budget and Performance Committee a couple of weeks ago and the LDA, when pressed about the debt, said that a fair chunk of the debt actually will still sit in the LDA's books to pay off the bills for the remediation so the issue of remediation then came up. Could I therefore just be clear what your understanding of the condition of the land...
  • Land remediation (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 10 March 2010
    I absolutely understand that if you are going to grow vegetables it has to be remediated to a certain level and the LDA has not done that. I also understand and accept LDA's assurance that it has remediated it to a standard fit to hold the Games on. That is fine. What I am interested in is the commercial exploitation of the land and any uncertainty. You just said, Margaret, as with any Brownfield site developers would have to be aware, but the LDA told us that it is giving you this brilliant land that it has spent an absolute...
  • Zero waste / zero carbon Games (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    .... I would just draw your attention, if you have not already seen it, to the evidence we received from the London Sustainable Development Commission. That is in a letter dated 20 September, where they basically draw attention to the very positive work that is going on, but they do make the point that in relation to legacy aspects, where the full sustainability, as it were, comes to be seen, that further work needs to be done on that. It particularly says, `Should the bid be successful, there needs to be a greater understanding of the sustainability aspects of the...
  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Sally Hamwee
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Well, they may choose to take their holidays at home, indeed. I think that it is something that, supporting the Games as we do, we would like to keep an eye on the calculations for. Can I also ask about the Paralympics? We are also enthusiastic about those, and I was glad to hear you mention them earlier, but they have problems with attendance, as well. Presumably this is marketing that needs to go on from now about what a good event the Paralympics is. Is there anything you can say about that?
  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Sally Hamwee
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    My question is whether marketing the parallel Olympics is something that goes into the bid as starting very early indeed.