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Vision for the LLDC (Supplementary) [2]

  • Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
  • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
Jennette Arnold (AM): Yes, thank you. My line of questioning to both you gentlemen is about the media and broadcast centres and about, if you like, the haste and the urgency that we have in this area about getting jobs and investment going in as soon as possible. We do not want to repeat the saga of the Stadium. So it is an answer from both of you. Can you confirm that in January 2013 iCity will be confirmed as the consortia for the legacy project of the media and broadcast centres?

Vision for the LLDC (Supplementary) [1]

  • Question by: Roger Evans
  • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
Roger Evans (AM): Thank you. Mr Mayor, can you just tell us how far outside the boundary of the Olympic Park your vision is going to extend?

Physical Legacy of the Olympic Park (Supplementary) [4]

  • Question by: Nicky Gavron
  • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
Nicky Gavron (AM): I want to go back if I may to Caroline Pidgeon's question where you were talking about the level of affordable housing. There has always been a real concern that the brilliant and beautifully planned Park and its neighbourhood might become an enclave for relatively well-off people. It would be a real failure for legacy if it were not to deliver mixed and balanced communities. Now, 35% affordable homes is not a very high proportion. Could I drill down into what is meant by 'affordable'? I do not mind which of you answers.

Physical Legacy of the Olympic Park (Supplementary) [3]

  • Question by: Tom Copley
  • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
Tom Copley (AM): Good morning, Mr Mayor. Boris Johnson (Chairman, LLDC): Good morning. Tom Copley (AM): I wanted to ask you a couple of questions about community land trusts. I believe that in 2005 thousands of homes were promised to the people of east London as part of community land trusts. I would like to ask you first of all what progress is being made on delivering those promised homes?

Physical Legacy of the Olympic Park (Supplementary) [2]

  • Question by: John Biggs
  • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
John Biggs (AM): A very simple question to start which is, in answering Caroline Pidgeon's question, do you have enough money to deliver your promises concerning the physical legacy of the Olympic Park?

Physical Legacy of the Olympic Park (Supplementary) [1]

  • Question by: Richard Tracey
  • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
Richard Tracey (AM): Boris, you have heard the discussion in John Biggs' question about the Stadium and indeed Dennis Hone told us at the Budget and Performance Committee that he believed it would be 2015 or 2016 before the Stadium could reopen. Can I ask you as the Chairman of the LLDC as well as the Mayor, will you set an objective of opening it before that point? I quite agree with John Biggs and the point has been made elsewhere. It would be a bit shameful if we could not reopen it before Rio has completely finished its Olympics.

Tax Devolution (Supplementary) [2]

  • Question by: Nicky Gavron
  • Meeting date: 24 October 2012
Nicky Gavron (AM): Picking up on what you were saying earlier about hypothecation and recognising that you are trying to do a very important, long term job which may pay off, in the shorter term, how far is your survey of other cities looking at the ways in which other city governments have been enabled to set charges like congestion charging, or have the powers to set levies and so on, which they can hypothecate? The Mayor has two opportunities in London: CIL and congestion charging, and there could be others like that. Are you going to come up with...

Tax Devolution (Supplementary) [1]

  • Question by: Nicky Gavron
  • Meeting date: 24 October 2012
In the same spirit, how far are you going to frame for the Mayor any of the mechanisms he might be thinking about for the comprehensive spending review for London?

Localisation of Business Rates (Supplementary) [1]

  • Question by: Andrew Boff
  • Meeting date: 24 October 2012
Andrew Boff (AM): Professor Travers, do you think that the localisation of business rates might assist local authorities in dealing with the blight of empty shops and derelict land?

Balance of Taxation (Supplementary) [6]

  • Question by: Nicky Gavron
  • Meeting date: 24 October 2012
Nicky Gavron (AM): While we are on land and talking about the planning system, currently the Assembly's Planning Committee is looking at the community infrastructure levy (CIL). That is, to a certain extent, a fixed charge, although there are lots of complications because it is set different in different boroughs and there is not necessarily a duty to cooperate and so on. On top of that is the Mayor's own CIL. I was wondering, this CIL is for Crossrail, but is the Commission going to look beyond that to the way CIL might be used by the Mayor in the...
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