• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

So, finally from me, are you satisfied then with the rate of clear up by the MPS?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Over the last two years I have met literally hundreds of people, particularly young people, who say to me, 'I haven't bothered reporting the fact I've been a victim of crime because no one does anything about it'. What message do you have for those people?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

No, no, that was not the question. I asked you whether or not you approved of that proposal: that people who offer as an excuse that they are on drugs or they are on alcohol should be excused prison because of - that they are feeding a habit?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

You are clearly not interested in what the majority, for example, of Richmond residents say about you narrowing the view from King Henry's Mound in Richmond Park which is clearly going to give you the opportunity to put up tall buildings in the narrowed corridor. Because of course that is the reason why you have narrowed the view, isn't it?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Would you agree with me that the development potential of the South Bank area, North Lambeth and Southwark, which has been well defined and identified in the London Plan and the Waterloo Opportunities Framework is potentially being suppressed by objectors to tall buildings? In particular I am concerned about English Heritage's approach to the Doon Street development. Do you think we are in danger of losing opportunities for jobs and housing in what is the highest potential development area in my constituency?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

No, that is not the gravamen of the question. The gravamen of the question is this; how is it that on one day you can say one thing and on another day you can say the other? It is all very well for you to defend it in the way that you have done; it is the way you defend everything. Weasel words.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

They were constantly eroded because you were quite willing to see exceptions made.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Just a quick question about the building that you are talking about in Ealing. I have to say I do agree with what you say in this respect because I thought it was an extremely ugly building. It has been nicknamed the Penny Whistle. But 700 odd flats there. You did not mention the effect that that would have on the local infrastructure. You have 700 odd new families in that area. What about the schools, the hospitals, the doctors, the dentists and the transport; all of that will be affected and there is no provision in those plans to...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

So you are interested in what the majority of Ealing residents say? That is a first.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Mayor, would you agree with me that the analysis that was done now I think about a decade ago in the Urban Renaissance Report showed that clustering of tall buildings and intensification of development around public transport centres is actually the way forward for sustainability and environmental management of the city?