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• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Sakina Sheikh AM: Good morning, Fiona and Andy, it is great to have you join us. It is so important that you have both already mentioned the Grenfell tragedy, a nightmare for many, but a reality for the residents who are still waiting for justice. It is a pertinent conversation to frame the rest of the discussion today about building safety. I wanted to start off by asking you, Fiona, specifically, what fire safety measures have been introduced into the planning system and how are they improving safety for Londoners?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

In terms of the challenges faced by the LFB in the future, severe weather is having an impact, and in terms of flooding in particular, does the LFB have the equipment it needs and the right level of resource to respond to flooding in London now and in the future?

• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Sem Moema AM: Thank you, Chair, I will do my best. I am really pleased to see the work that the LFB does with local authorities and civil servants. I have seen your work helping Hackney identify buildings at risk and to put in place those mitigations. The Grenfell incident had a huge impact and has really changed the way in which the LFB has had to work. I just wonder that, following [the Rt Hon] Michael Gove’s [MP, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities] on building safety and remediation around levelling up, how you think that...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Deputy Mayor, how do you anticipate the refreshed review by Lord [Toby] Harris into London’s preparedness for a terrorist attack will impact upon the work of the LFB?

• Reference: 2021/2676
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

How will you and your team meet the housing and planning challenges facing London during this term?

• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Hina Bokhari AM: Shared ownership has been a key part of London’s housing and planning model for the last two decades. Today I want to ask questions about how it is working for ordinary Londoners. I will start by asking Deputy Mayor Jules Pipe about planning for shared ownership homes in mixed developments. There were widespread reports recently of residents enjoying the world’s first swimming pool suspended between two buildings at the Embassy Gardens development in Wandsworth. However, the benefits of this facility are not equal as the shared owners in the building are not allowed to access it. This...

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Neil Garratt AM: Good morning. I would like to ask a question to Deputy Mayor Pipe, if I may, about family housing. It seems to me that if we are mainly building one and two‑bedroom properties, then that is what families will be living in, and they will be living in overcrowded conditions in those flats. We have seen particularly over the last year how big a problem that can be. People often imagine they are going to move out of inner London into outer London when they start a family, and they might be surprised to discover that that...

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Sakina Sheikh AM: Good morning. My question is to Deputy Mayor Jules Pipe, regarding building safety. For many of us, particularly the victims’ families, Grenfell Tower is scarred into our memories and the pursuit for justice continues. The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 report found that in the context of national legislation there was compelling evidence ‑ and I quote ‑ that, “[T]he external walls of the building failed to comply with Requirement B4(1) of Schedule 1 to the Building Regulations 2010, in that they did not adequately resist the spread of the fire having regard to the height, use...

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: My question is for Deputy Mayor Pipe. Jules, how will the new London Plan and its Supplementary Planning Guidance help to deliver on your promises to Londoners?

• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Marina Ahmad AM: My question is to the Deputy Mayor Jules Pipe. As we know, London is the engine of the UK economy and accounts for almost a quarter of the country’s economic output. The coming years are going to be dominated by how London responds to the pandemic and the damage it has caused the city, which is why the Mayor’s manifesto focused on the recovery needs of the city and talked about jobs, jobs, jobs. Deputy Mayor, what do we need from the planning system to support the Mayor’s aim of protecting jobs as our city recovers from...