• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

That is now up for renewal if it is the end of the three years so this is an ideal time for you to withhold grants.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

That has begun. I am glad to hear about your wholehearted commitment to this because it is bigger than the Olympics, OK, because of a legacy of hundreds of years, if we do not all flood and die before then. But you put energy into it last year. We had a small budget. What is the budget line this next year?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

No, but the fact is, to organise this, to keep aware of what is going on, it is going to need considerably more than £50,000. In fact you are going to need nearer £300,000, possibly more and I am concerned that this is not being reflected in the budget. It is all very well to have fine words. This is what we are finding constantly here, that we hear promises and fine words from people, but it is about the delivery and that equates actually with spending some money on it.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

It is obviously crucial that we get this brownfield development right if we are to protect greenfield and indeed the green belt. The figures I have in the decade before the LDA was set up, so in the 1990s, we lost the equivalent of Richmond Park in greenfield development and in this decade we have been losing St James's Park every year, that is development on greenfield sites. So, with that context, do you think that the the LDA's annual target of, I think is it 50 or 55 hectares a year, is adequate?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Do you think, as a result of this review, that your appraisal process and review of the options may actually get more robust?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

You anticipated my next question which was, if we count the Olympics towards that target, so the real issue, as it were, is for non-Olympic area target for the rest of London that we need to highlight and make sure that that is sufficiently ambitious to give us the brownfield site to protect the greenfield and then green belt.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

OK. Our research a year ago showed that around 11 per cent of brownfield land in London had no planning permission on it at all, so that is an area around the size of Hyde Park that at the moment no-one has got a clue what to do with. Is that figure still roughly the same according to your information?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

OK. When can we expect a review to publish then? Is that still by the end of this year?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

At the moment how does the LDA ensure that the community value and the environmental value of brownfield land is taken into account in development decisions currently?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Will the review also include assessments for the value of brownfield sites for biodiversity, flood management and community and recreational use as well as just development use, because one of points we made in our scrutiny report was that actually brownfield sites sometimes have far more amenity value and environmental value than greenfield sites?