• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 11 March 2015

Len Duvall AM: Mr Mayor, do you think the continued cuts to local government funding place a challenge not just on the boroughs but on the LLDC in terms of the delivery of the employment legacy? It is a success story. This is the partnership you are doing, working with the boroughs, getting people into employment.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 11 March 2015

Murad Qureshi AM: I am going to be asking a few questions on the Olympic Park, but the first thing I want to do is to just remind you that whilst we have some excellent sporting centres on the Olympic Park, originally we had two cricket pitches and we have none at the moment. I do not know if that partly explains the demise of English cricket at the moment. Who has been most let down by the Olympic legacy works and undelivered promises in the Park: allotment holders, Gypsies and Travellers, or boaters along the canals?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 11 March 2015

Tom Copley AM: Mr Mayor, is the maximum level of affordable housing across the Park still going to be set at 31% and are you satisfied with the proportion of affordable housing that is going to be on the Olympic site?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 March 2015

John Biggs AM: I am very grateful for your answers to date. You will be aware, though, as you say - and this is a question to the Mayor - that this is a cross-party initiative by and large and you have stepped into the shoes of your illustrious predecessor, who was very clear that the Olympics were but a down payment on the wider regeneration of the area. You are saying quite a lot of things in support of that. I am happy by and large with what has happened in the Park. There are a few problems, which...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 06 February 2015

Nicky Gavron AM: Edward, I just wanted to follow up on the implications, really, of what you were saying about waste and incineration. One of the things we like about the London Plan is that it is bringing forward recycling targets. London has been performing very badly and is lagging behind other cities and of course other international cities. If you look over the mayoralty, the amount of waste going to incineration from London has doubled. Recently, you gave permission to Beddington, which we did not want you to do, for a 300,000-ton incinerator. If you replace Edmonton, you will...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 06 February 2015

Andrew Boff AM: Sir Edward, in reaching a decision about whether or not plans work, we need data. We do not seem to have gathered data about how many family properties are being built above the second floor. Therefore, it is a little difficult then to monitor the performance of the London Plan’s housing targets with regard to what is, as far as I am concerned, a very important piece of information.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 06 February 2015

Joanne McCartney AM: I wanted to ask about waste facilities, in particular incineration. It appears to me that the FALP seems to be going backwards on the green handling of waste by making incineration more likely. Can I just ask if that is your view? Will the Mayor commit to reviewing the carbon intensity floor (CIF) so that it will rule out all mass-burn incineration in the future?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 February 2015

Murad Qureshi AM: Sir Edward, can I bring up the particular issue of subterranean basement developments? Last night I heard from residents of Bayswater that they have had 15 of these developments in the last 18 months. It has caused sinkholes, flooding and structural damage to properties. It is a problem not only in the City of Westminster but in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in Hammersmith and Fulham and I understand in other boroughs in north London as well. We also unanimously passed a motion in March proposing that some limits should be made on these excessive...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 06 February 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Thank you, Chairman. Could I just pursue you a little further on the line of questioning you were receiving from Steve O’Connell about parking in outer London? Are you specifically delineating what is ‘outer London’ and what is ‘inner London’? What bothers me is that sometimes it seems that TfL, when commenting on planning applications, tries to impose the rather stricter inner London format on outer London boroughs. As you said, we do definitely need more scope for residential parking in outer London.

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 06 February 2015

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: Sir Edward, should we expect to see more parks and other pieces of green open space being built upon?