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• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 21 July 2010

I have got a question about planning and the historic environment. We are just running out of time so I think the best way forward, Bob, is if I could invite you to join me in visiting the historic site of Shakespeare's first theatre. This is not in south London as people would think, but in Shoreditch. Why I would like you to do that is that you will then see the importance about planning at a local level, but also the need for some assurance to be given that a site like that could be preserved. I am just...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Can I just go back to Commissioner Dobson and can I add my congratulations to you for your years of service to London. It is the hymn sheet that your borough commanders are speaking from that concerns me. Like Joanne [McCartney] said, I was at a partnership meeting and we welcomed the presentation and it was a thorough presentation, but the presentation gave the view that this was within the context of some sort of policy framework and that, if you like, there had been political decisions made in terms of, yes, we are looking for efficiencies and, yes, you...

• Reference: 2008/0108-1
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

Let us go onto the second part of this session and let us welcome our colleague, Mr Coleman, who is here in his role as Chairman of London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA). Let us also welcome the Commissioner of the Fire Service, Mr Dobson. It is usual to take a statement either from the Chair or from the Commissioner.