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  • Public disorder incidents in London (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Roger Evans
    • Meeting date: 07 September 2011
    It is obvious just from looking at the media coverage that different tactics were used on the ground in different places, and some with a greater level of success than others. In Romford we had some prior notice that this was going to happen by maybe extrapolating the events from the night before in the way that Darren has mentioned, but also information on social media, and that enabled our fairly far-sighted borough commander, Mike Smith, to put measures in place to ask businesses to close early and to deploy his officers at Romford Station, where the considerable police presence...

  • Planning

    • Reference: 2010/0070-1
    • Question by: Roger Evans
    • Meeting date: 21 July 2010
    The coalition government is keen to promote localism. How will boroughs be allowed to control planning in their areas?

  • London Assembly Powers and Resources (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Roger Evans
    • Meeting date: 21 July 2010
    I just want to put on the record for the purpose of the minutes that there is substantial agreement around this table on a lot of the points that are being raised. We agree that the MPA should be following an LFEPA model; we agree that strategies should be subject to rejection by the Assembly on a two thirds majority and we agree that bodies should have elected representation on them if possible rather than being entirely appointed. Something else we would like to see is more cases of ministers being accountable to this body and coming to give evidence...