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• Reference: 2019/20998
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

The Federation of Small Businesses (‘FSB’) have called for radical business rates reform to provide financial assistance for businesses impacted by Brexit uncertainty. With the high streets facing ‘retail apocalypse’, do you agree with the range of measures indicated in FSB’s recommendations to the Chancellor and what measures are necessary to help London’s small businesses and stop the decline in London’s High Streets?

• Reference: 2019/20961
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

It is great that the new Public London Charter will be embedded in your new London Plan. Could you update us on how it is being drawn up and when we can expect it to be published?

• Reference: 2019/20962
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

The latest London Plan Annual Monitoring Report finds that “Bexley, Bromley, the City of London and Kingston upon Thames recorded no completions of affordable homes with three bedrooms or more” in 2017/18, with other boroughs also recording very low levels of family sized affordable housing. How will you make sure boroughs increase the delivery of family sized affordable homes across London, which is much needed?

• Reference: 2019/20963
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

From table 3.31 of the latest London Plan Annual Monitoring Report, could you provide the number of new conventional homes in the pipeline in each borough and tenure that are “family-sized”, i.e. have three or more bedrooms?

• Reference: 2019/20964
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Can you provide a list of all planning applications which have been approved in the past five years which have included development on Green Belt or Metropolitan Open Land?

• Reference: 2019/20965
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

What progress have you made lobbying the Government to implement the reforms proposed in the GLA’s “Capital Gains” report, in particular the introduction of “Land Assembly Zones”? Will you work with the new Government to ensure the necessary legislative changes are enacted?

• Reference: 2019/20999
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Your response to Question (2019/17739) addressed the issue of TfL’s response to Tube noise. Additionally, in your letter written on 5 November 2019 responding to the matter of TfL’s response to tube noise, you stated that Pandrol Vanguard track fastenings may reduce the amount of rail grinding. However, new installations have been halted to enable TfL to assess their success and concerns of in-carriage noise. What is your response in the meantime, specifically, to residents who endure the grinding noises for much longer periods of time than Tube riders? When can they expect an acceptable solution to reduce/remove noise? Is...

• Reference: 2019/21000
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

In your letter written on 5 November 2019 addressing the issue of TfL’s response to Tube noise, you wrote that the TfL has “carried out a targeted programme of rail grinding at key sites which, at many locations, has led to a reduction in both in-carriage and residential noise.” Can you provide proof of this reduction in each of the key sites that were targeted?

• Reference: 2019/21001
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

The performance of TfL in dealing with tube noise, from my experience of local casework, is patchy. One of my residents has said to me “I am awaiting an update regarding the intrusive noise on the part of the Jubilee Line known as The Kingsbury Curve. This issue is now almost six months old, and we seem to be no nearer to getting the noise reduced.” I accept that measures for such problems are complex. However, how can TfL improve its performance so that it retains trust of residents and that the issues are dealt with in a timely manner?

• Reference: 2019/21002
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Can you provide the number, and the nature of Taxicard customer complaints since the re-awarding of the Taxicard contract to CityFleet last year?