• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

I just wanted to come in on the problem of the noise quota for which, as you know, the Government has decided to use Concorde as the average noise quota. However, Concorde only came in once and went out once in the night, it did not go on. Using the 50 decibels for the noise quota for Concorde would allow goodness knows how many 747s to go in and out during the night, so there will be continual noise. There is something bizarre in this. Are you able to do anything about this? It is serious in south London and...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Will you be pursuing any legal challenges with regards to the London Plan?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

With the roll out of Safer Transport Teams now would you envisage them being used in safer travel at night especially during the party season, perhaps some allowance in shift patterns?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Mr Mayor, following on from what Valerie was saying, I just hope that in order to accommodate Valerie nothing happens to the other existing services at Battersea Park.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

I was going to raise what I think is a strategic point which underlies the very valid local point that Valerie makes; that is the extent to which Network Rail has consistently failed to address the lack of capacity for trains going from south London and south east London into all of the London termini; it affects London Bridge, Charing Cross and the works. Since we are unlikely, unfortunately, to reach Geoff's [Pope] question further down, can I ask, is that not even more highlighted by the extraordinary debacle over the Eurostar platforms at Waterloo where they have had three...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

This did not originally come from TfL Rail this is the Network Rail Route Utilisation Strategy. The railway industry en masse prioritises longer distance commuters and undervalues Central London rail infrastructure and passengers.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

What I want from you, Mayor, is a proper assessment of the usage of the South London Line before TfL Rail will go anywhere near supporting a case for removing it. I also want the rail industry to look seriously at how efficiently they manage their capital assets at the stations. If London Underground can have a stepping-back system and turn the Tube trains round as fast as they do on the Victoria Line, why cannot the rail industry get the trains in and out of their pinch point rail head stations at London Bridge and Victoria faster? The South...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

I wondered, in your discussions with London Councils, whether you had had an exchange of views about the proposal of some London boroughs, particularly Westminster, to regulate the distribution of food to homeless people?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

My concern is the timescale for all of this. What is your projected timescale to change the London Plan and get this instituted across London?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Finally, in terms of your definition of character of properties, you alluded to losing houses of character. Is that being tightly drawn or is that going to be a loose arrangement?