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• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 02 March 2016

Tom Copley: If I could turn to housing, to what extent could global financial uncertainty affect the affordable housing totals for the remaining neighbourhoods on the Olympic Park?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 02 March 2016

Andrew Dismore AM: In answer to Fiona [Fiona Twycross AM] and others, you again went back to the issue of transparency and I would like to come back to the West Ham deal. I have here a copy of the West Ham concession agreement, which I assume you have read. [--] Andrew Dismore AM: This is the redacted copy. I do not understand, for example, why in section 28 your arrangements for the police are redacted. Presumably, that is something that we can get from the police anyway. If you look at this document, page after page after page is...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 02 March 2016

Len Duvall AM: Chair, can we move to some of the issues around skills? You have a reasonable record on this. Can you tell us what lessons over the last four years you have had that you have learnt about delivery in the skills area?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 02 March 2016

Andrew Boff AM: Could you tell me to what extent you have made opportunities for smaller developers to build something on the Olympic site?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 06 February 2015

Nicky Gavron AM: Sir Edward, thank you very much for that introduction. The big headline out of this Plan is that the Mayor’s target is not high enough to meet the housing that London needs. It does not even take the target that is given in his own evidence. We have a housing crisis. Why are you content to move forward with a Plan that does not meet London’s housing need?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 06 February 2015

Tom Copley AM: I want to move on to talk about affordable housing. Would a London-wide percentage target for affordable housing be more effective at delivering the homes that Londoners need the most?

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 06 February 2015

Navin Shah AM: Good morning, Sir Edward. In your introduction, you made a reference to the long-term future. Can we look at that in the context of safeguarding London’s skyline? Can you tell me, please, what policies in the altered London Plan could be used to ensure that in the short and long term we do not end up with out-of-character buildings like 1 Merchant Square popping up across London?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 06 February 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Thank you, Chairman. Could I just pursue you a little further on the line of questioning you were receiving from Steve O’Connell about parking in outer London? Are you specifically delineating what is ‘outer London’ and what is ‘inner London’? What bothers me is that sometimes it seems that TfL, when commenting on planning applications, tries to impose the rather stricter inner London format on outer London boroughs. As you said, we do definitely need more scope for residential parking in outer London.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 February 2015

Murad Qureshi AM: Sir Edward, can I bring up the particular issue of subterranean basement developments? Last night I heard from residents of Bayswater that they have had 15 of these developments in the last 18 months. It has caused sinkholes, flooding and structural damage to properties. It is a problem not only in the City of Westminster but in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in Hammersmith and Fulham and I understand in other boroughs in north London as well. We also unanimously passed a motion in March proposing that some limits should be made on these excessive...