• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Caroline Russell AM: Lyn, last time we spoke at the Budget and Performance Committee meeting before Christmas [2022], we established that the LLDC heat network runs on gas. It cannot meet the Mayor’s climate targets and it opens residents up to catastrophic energy bills. We discussed that you somehow have to get rid of all the gas and get heat pumps in to shift all that power to low carbon. I was very glad to hear you tell Assembly Member Cooper just now that Equans has started on the installation of air-source heat pumps. What analysis was done to rule...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Shaun Bailey AM: Good morning to both of our guests. Can I start with you, Lord Hendy. On 7 March [2023] you announced a consultation on reducing the size of LLDC from December 2024. It was also confirmed that LLDC would maintain its status with a reconstituted board and a governance structure and a return of planning powers to the constituent boroughs. What were the objectives behind these changes?

• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Marina Ahmad AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, panel. Ms Garner, how does LLDC plan to address entrenched issues of inequality through its inclusive economy work?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Good morning, Lyn. Good morning, Peter. I wanted to ask you something about net zero at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. How are discussions with the Greater London Authority (GLA) progressing on how to fund the net zero measures that were identified in the climate budgeting process?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Susan Hall AM: Thank you. I will be very brief. Lyn, at the December [2022] Budget and Performance [Committee] meeting, I asked you whether you would ask the Mayor to get more involved in the search for a Stadium sponsor. What progress have you made on that?

• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Sem Moema AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning to both of you. Assembly Member Berry has covered much of the issues that I wanted to ask you about, the fixed estate charge, apart from saying that I would welcome the suggestion she has made to have that review and, post powers being returned to the local authorities, that there is a mechanism in place to make sure that is ongoing and that we do not get into a situation where the fixed estate charge becomes a second service charge, which makes it unaffordable for people to live on the Park...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much, Chair. My question is to Lyn to begin with. I want to ask about the issue with changing the housing tenures in planning applications. One of the residents has raised concerns with me about developers applying to change the planning permission they have for residential development into student accommodation. It is plot N16 in East Village. It is Get Living. They plan to replace 188 homes with 520 student beds. Included in those 188 homes in the existing planning application, we would lose 31 three-bedroom family homes. Also, you have loads of student...

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Sakina Sheikh AM: Good morning, Lyn. Good morning, Lord Hendy. It is great to see you both. Lyn, recently you came - it feels like a long time ago now - in November [2022] to the Planning and Regeneration Committee and we had some really interesting conversations about the LLDC and the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC). I just wanted to go back to some of what was talked about and draw out some of the themes. One of the things that you said through the conversation was that displacement of people in regeneration schemes is inevitable...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: I do not mind which person would like to answer. It might be we start with Lyn and move over to Lord Hendy. The transformation of the Olympic Park and Stratford is something to celebrate. It is fantastic. I want to pick up about transport today, surprise, surprise. Stratford Station is estimated to be the seventh busiest Network Rail station in the UK and one of the busiest stations on the TfL network. It is straining to cope with demand, a fragmented layout and the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in the middle causing a huge bottleneck...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Andrew Boff AM (Deputy Chair): Thank you. Lord Hendy, when was the last time you met with the Mayor to talk about the LLDC?