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• Reference: 2014/3696
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

What steps do your policies take to help the single mothers displaced by the closure of the Newham Foyer, and who wish to stay in genuinely affordable accommodation in the neighbourhood?

• Reference: 2014/3700
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

What progress have you made in designating a site for a CLT in the Olympic Park, and will you be able to announce a site before you disappear from City Hall?

• Reference: 2014/3705
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Would you agree with me that, other than the potential problem of tribal rivalry, a temporary Premiership ground share at the Olympic Stadium would be an elegant use of a public facility and in particular would be good news for taxpayers in securing a better income from the stadium?

• Reference: 2014/3216
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

Thank you for your answer to my question 2014/2428 about the former Crown Estate properties and the transfer to Peabody. However, although your answer is factual, it does not address the issue of the affordability for those for whom the properties are intended. Can you please respond to the point in my original question which asked what, if any, review mechanism you though should be instituted?

• Reference: 2014/3220
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

Can you spell out the timeline, for the key stages, for the design, permission and construction of a Gallions Crossing, based on a realistic path? Are you commissioning any related work on the economic and regeneration benefits and environmental consequences, and their management, of a crossing?

• Reference: 2014/2772
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

How transparent was the decision to not proceed with an office lease at Canary Wharf but instead lease an as yet unbuilt office at Stratford? While confidentiality was clearly necessary at the time of decision, will you now release all (or most) of the figures and background arguments?

• Reference: 2014/2773
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

I am delighted that office construction will be progressing at Stratford, although naturally a little perturbed that it may have been primed by a decision that disadvantages Canary Wharf (both sites are in my constituency). I note that office proposals seem to be appearing elsewhere as part of outer London regeneration projects. While I clearly want both Canary Wharf and Stratford to succeed, and am optimistic that they will, how are you going to ensure that through planning policy we do not create too many 'satellite' locations, not all of which will succeed?

• Reference: 2014/1938
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 June 2014

Escalating rents in the private sector mean that many former Crown Estate properties, now with Peabody, whose intermediate rents are benchmarked against the market are being priced out of their homes, and are finding it hard to make ends meet. What steps will you take to examine and as necessary intervene in this matter?

• Reference: 2014/1939
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 June 2014

Given that house prices rose by 21.7 per cent in the past year, are you concerned that Newham may, as Tower Hamlets, become progressively unaffordable for those on low and moderate incomes?