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• 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? .

• Reference: 2001/0065-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Do you support the Mayor's attitude to tree planting as set out in his draft bio-diversity strategy? .

• Reference: 2001/0066-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Many of London's brownfield sites are also important habitats and therefore a land-use choice will have to be made. Which should have priority, homes for people or sanctuaries for nature? .

• Reference: 2001/0067-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Allotments are a very valuable community resource in London, but are often treated as `cinderella spaces' by local authorities and sold off to make room for new developments. Do you share this opinion and does your plan for London seek to challenge this and improve allotment provision? .

• 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: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I take your point about post war development but I also bear in mind the fact that no architect has ever said that the development they built was quantity led rather than quality led. Every development that has ever been built we have been told is beautiful in its time. The problem is it does not look so fashionable 30 years later. A lot of our densely populated areas are not pleasant to live in. How do you feel we can mitigate overcrowding in a poor environment with green space, particularly given the Mayor's demands that we also produce a...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Obviously you seem hopeful that your contract will be extended beyond the initial year and into the future to work with us. If that is the case will you be happy to work in the new GLA headquarters with the rest of us and what do you think the advantages are that we can look forward to from working in a building that is as transparent and functional as the table we are sitting at this morning?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Can you tell us what features you think the new City Hall for the Mayor and London Authority should embody and how you would have designed it if it had been your task?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

So in a political headquarters should there be more open plan or more quiet spaces?