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• Reference: 2001/0083-1
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What is your involvement in Mayor's Spatial Development Strategy? Have you fed into other Mayoral strategies so as to ensure an integrated approach? .

• Reference: 2001/0084-1
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What steps will you be taking to engage with London Boroughs as part of your work programme? .

• Reference: 2001/0091-1
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What do you think is the best way to increase job opportunities throughout London, rather than largely only in the existing core?) .

• Reference: 2001/0094-1
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What do you consider a Tall Building? .

• Reference: 2001/0098-1
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What support and service do you feel that you and your unit will be able to give to Outer London Boroughs seeking to re-invigorate district centres and develop key derelict sites? Specifically in South London what kind of action do you feel could be pursued to boost district centres like Norbury, Coulsdon, Purley, Worcester Park and Wallington that sit astride key FtL roads full of heavy traffic and to get development off the ground at key sites like the Croydon Gateway site at East Croydon? .

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

There is a brownfield site in Haringey Heartlands. We had a discussion in the Chamber about it. And I have to say that to describe the outline planning permission, which is the stage it is at, as crushingly mediocre would be very kind. And damning people for God knows how many years into what I think is really -- well mediocre, as I said, would be kind. The lead member for regeneration there accused me of an elitist vision. I referred to yourself and Nicky Gavron and what we are trying to do in London and he said it was...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I think you share the Mayor's view of the efficacy of tall buildings particularly in the key transport nodal points. Obviously there is great sensitivity for those developments in Central London. What role to you think some outer London venues have in terms of acting as host to those type of tall buildings? I represent a constituency in South London where virtually the amount of development has been very limited during the 1990s but there is a great deal of space for that type of development. What role would you see perhaps for South London in fulfilling that Mayoral desire...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I suppose it will be an argument for sustainable development if you can get people to commute out in the morning and in the evening to some of these key suburban office sites. I represent Croydon which as you say perhaps has a false pride in terms of its tall buildings, desire for tall buildings, but it is perhaps in many ways a good opportunity to put some of the tall buildings that might fit in within a Manhattan style skyline in Croydon which might not suit necessarily next to St Paul's Cathedral.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I am getting slightly confused, are you saying that through your work you are going to be recommending less space per person or more space per person as a standard for the sort of work that you are doing? My understanding is that the standards are set for minimum requirements for a family of X size -- are there no space/person requirements or are you going to set some? Well you said the standards in Holland, so maybe I misinterpreted you, gave a third more space. What did you mean? A third more space than what? And for how many...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Okay, if this is the debate that we are going to be having, if actually one said that people needed less space internally, more space externally and more communal facilities in terms of shops or infrastructure or whatever, I mean that is social engineering of a sort, isn't it? I am just trying to test your thinking. You could say that in affordable housing or social housing - let's be controversial - people need less space and you can have smaller areas in which you live, well designed so you have got the quality you are talking about, and that...