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  • Chairman's Question to Guests (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 06 February 2015
    Jenny Jones AM: On this substantive issue, I am very concerned that you are actually releasing too much industrial land because the vacancy rate on industrial land has actually halved in the past 15 years and is now lower than retail vacancies. I am concerned that you are talking about surplus land when, actually, it is not surplus because small businesses still need to be near centres of population and they still need to be near town centres. I just wonder how much research you have done on this.

  • Proposal to Designate a Mayoral Development Area (Supplementary) [13]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2014
    Jenny Jones AM: I have not been convinced by these arguments about keeping Wormwood Scrubs open space inside the MDC. The council that currently has it in their borough is against it. The Friends of the Open Space are against it. It looks like a mayoral land grab. It does not look like a coherent plan. Sir Edward Lister (Mayor's Chief of Staff): If I may, it is a coherent plan, but they do not agree with it. Jenny Jones AM: Do you not think you should be interested in localism: that decisions for local people for local land should...

  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    You actually said, `There will be no permanent or temporary facility built in Hackney Marshes.'

  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Jenny Jones (AM): Well, that is not what local people think.

  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    `Temporary' is two years. You are moving that football club on, that's Sunday league, for two years.

  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Let us look at the cost, then. It is expensive to start taking green space and then reconstitute it. Why not just leave it and find another option?

  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [9]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    It has actually proven quite difficult for me to sit here and listen, and not stand up and shout, `rubbish,- because you are talking about environmental sustainability, you are talking about legacy in east London, and yet you are planning to tarmac over a piece of Hackney Marshes: East Marsh... You are ignoring the wishes of the local people, who have come up with several other options instead of tarmacking over a piece of green space. Why are you not consulting the local people? I can give you three suggestions. I have a map and can point to these places...

  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Why not save yourself the money of building a car park? Why not make that space beautiful without'?

  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [11]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Jenny Jones (AM): They know the area better than you, I would suggest.

  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [17]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Alright, coach park. Two years is temporary? You will be damaging wildlife; you will be cutting down trees. There is no protection for trees under the plan.