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• Reference: 2001/0055-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

In 1992 you wrote with Mark Fisher: "Severely limiting cars in London could be effective only if investment were made in high quality public alternatives." (A New London, Penguin London 1992 p xxiii). What investment has been made in public transport in the last four years and what investment do you believe is still needed before car use can be reduced? (A New London, 1992) .

• Reference: 2001/0054-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

In 1997 you said: "Organisations such as LOTS (Living Over The Shop) claim that at least 200,000 permanent homes could be provided above shops and commercial premises in inner London alone." (Cities for a Small Planet, p 119) Why has this option been largely ignored in the Mayor's Towards the London Plan? .

• Reference: 2001/0059-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What discussions have you had with a) the Mayor, b) the Government, c) relevant local Councils and d) possible sponsors about turning the north Thames embankment from Westminster to Blackfriars Bridge into a park? (A New London, 1992) .

• Reference: 2001/0060-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What discussions have you had with a) the Mayor, b) the Government, c) the relevant local Council and d) possible sponsors about creating a park linking the Albert Memorial to the Albert Hall and putting the A4 into a tunnel running beneath it? (A New London, 1992) .

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Lord Rogers, you did mention Roehampton which is in my patch. I am not only a Wandsworth Councillor but a Putney Councillor. I have spent a lot of time in Roehampton and when it was built, I think by Herbert Morison, who had the view - rather paternalistic - that people who were desperate for homes did not mind living in matchboxes on top of each other as long as they could look out on a green aspect. Well I can assure you that really is not so. I have to say that Wandsworth Council has poured money into Roehampton...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I was specifically referring of course to the fact that you play a link between investment in public transport and the reduction in car use. You are saying we need an awful lot more, so in your view an awful lot more needs to be done before you would see car use being reduced?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I for one feel slightly concerned at the way buildings can be spot listed, bringing all sorts of inconveniences on the way with it. But I wondered whether there might be a way of evening up the playing field, if I can put it that way. The Chief Executive of one of London's larger estates suggested to me, what about the idea of "black marking" buildings? Some of those buildings that have been left standing idle, often falling into ruin, and are real eyesores. There should be some system of "black marking" them for demolition unless a case can be...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I wonder whether you can understand the concerns that I have expressed in the past about the role you play in advising the Mayor and also the fact that the Mayor will at some stage look at every UDP that has to go before his office. I am thinking in particular of Westminster's which came back from the Mayor's office with remarks written all over the place about the fact that he could not find their UDP acceptable unless they were going to go forward with very tall buildings in the Paddington area, and of course your name crops up...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

So you can assure me this morning that there will be no conversations of any sort whatsoever between you and the Mayor concerning areas where the UDP is being considered by the Mayor?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What happens if the situation arose where there might not be any work you are specifically doing at the time but that there was some in the pipeline?