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  • Section 106 Agreements

    • Reference: 2005/2411
    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 14 December 2005
    Can you confirm that your suggested pooling system of section 106 agreements could mean that you could use money allocated to one borough and spend in another?
  • Additional Staff

    • Reference: 2005/2473
    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 14 December 2005
    How many additional staff would the GLA require should the new powers you would like be granted?
  • Call In Powers

    • Reference: 2005/2410
    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 14 December 2005
    In your submission to the government on planning powers you suggested that: "The Mayor should have the power to call in applications for his decision (enabling him to grant planning permission as well as directing refusal), in those cases which meet the criteria for his involvement". However, in the consultation document it states under your proposals: "encourage a rethink of Government's role in the planning of London (but the Mayor does not propose that Ministers' current powers of call-in and direction should be removed)." Can you please clarify your position on this, do you wish to have call in powers?
  • Strategic Planning Applications Outside London

    • Reference: 2005/2412
    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 14 December 2005
    In your submission to the Government for additional powers, you state: "The Mayor seeks to be a statutory consultee on strategic planning applications outside London where there are implications for the capital". How far outside London do you wish to be a statutory consultee for?
  • Positive Planning Powers

    • Reference: 2005/2413
    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 14 December 2005
    You claim that there is an analogy between the GLA and the Government on the promoter/decider problem. Does this mean that you would employ a planning inspectorate?
  • Forward Planning for Educational Provision

    • Reference: 2005/2414
    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 14 December 2005
    You say that this would enable you to 'plan new schools within major development sites' How many such sites are there which require the planning of new secondary schools and where are they?
  • LDA Projects

    • Reference: 2005/0547-1
    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 07 December 2005
    Can you please list all the projects the LDA has been planning to implement since 2004 for Richmond, Kingston upon Thames and Hounslow and what is the current status of these projects? If any of these projects have been delayed or put on hold can you please state which ones and why?
  • Grants

    • Reference: 2005/0548-1
    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 07 December 2005
    How much money in Grants has each London Borough received from the LDA since 2000? Please list by borough breakdown.
  • Grants

    • Reference: 2005/0549-1
    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 07 December 2005
    How much money in grants was allocated to each London Borough in this financial year and of this how much have they received so far? Please list by borough breakdown.
  • King Henry's Mound

    • Reference: 2005/2205
    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 16 November 2005
    Thank you for your answer to Question No. 1910/2005. Will the Mayor state unequivocally that he will promote the protection of strategic views, including that of St Paul's from King Henry's Mound in Richmond Park, as enthusiastically as he promotes the development of tall buildings? In the light of the Mayor's answer to Question No. 1911/2005, why did the Mayor state in correspondence with me that, as a result of the Examination in Public of The London Plan, a decision had been taken to narrow the viewing corridor from King Henry's Mound in Richmond Park? Should Londoners take this as...