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• Reference: 2008/0008-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

What new options for the funding, design, and housing provision of the Olympic Village are now being explored, in the light of the current economic climate and housing market conditions?

• Reference: 2008/0110-1
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Good morning Members. We welcome John Armitt and David Higgs who are here with us this morning and we are looking forward to a good exchange of information. Thank you both for coming. Before I go on, can I just say that I was asked by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) to circulate a booklet which you will have found on your seats and John [Armitt] or David [Higgins] will make reference to this booklet in answer to Mr Boff's question [see Appendix 2]. The Deputy Chair and I had a pre-meeting with both John and David and we agreed...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Can I ask one tiny supplementary which is a little bit tangential? I understand that Queen Mary College - which is a university round the corner from where I live and just down the road from Stratford - has made its student village - about 3,000 properties - available for the entirety of the Olympics. Is that in some way making up for the shortfall in accommodation that is likely to be built at Stratford?

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

I was worried that there was a strong emphasis, quite rightly so of course, in legacy terms towards temporary and permanent developments and also the future options for the development projects, but not much at all about architectural legacy and heritage in terms of high quality of design etc. I am reassured now from the comments Mr Higgins made about the attempt being made, in terms of the whole process that you have developed, in getting better design and also your reference to the Barcelona Masterplan and so on. I am really seeking reassurance and an assurance for Londoners and...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

I assume the Paralympians are going to be using the Olympic Village as well?

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Just a quick follow up. I am hoping you are getting the feeling from round here that all of us are looking for a community that we can be proud of in years to come and I think that is something that we would like to see; the whole design and thought looked at from that sense of view. I am personally quite pleased we are not putting up more high rise blocks. You talked about the fact that you had reduced the number. Does that mean that is going to change the number of people in each room or...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Like yourself I was there as a spectator but I did not have any privilege access like yourselves to what was happening during that whole month of festivities. There were one or two things I picked up which I think are pertinent. The first is on the transport. It was not just the investment they made but they also dropped prices, quite considerably, so most people used it quite happily. A similar thing happened in Athens. They said afterwards they managed to move the modal shift by 10% from private vehicles to public transport. I do not know if we...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Can we get the parameters very clear then. You are responsible for the build phase of the Olympic Site and the security of that build phase. You will then hand over to LOCOG who assume responsibility for the buildings and it is their responsibility for security of the delivery of the Paralympic and Olympic Games. Are you responsible for the security at Broxbourne for the waterway and at Weymouth? At what point do you hand over responsibility for the build site because I understand there are test operations that need to occur for a period of up to a year...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Of course about 95% of the transport developments will be legacy so I think that will be very much welcomed by Londoners and certainly East Londoners. Of course we have had a time of turmoil and sometimes delay in reviews at City Hall since the election and I just wondered are there any transport development projects which have been caught up in the Mayor's transport review and delayed which are of significance to the Olympic transport plan?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Gentlemen, in the current climate and with you being questioned so closely by everybody about costings, you must regret that remark by the previous Mayor about the costings for the bid being worked out on the back of an envelope? That is a question. You must regret it must you not, gentlemen? Does it make your job rather difficult?