• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

I cannot accept it is a political campaign.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Therefore you can give us a reassurance can you that some time very soon they will be quite clear about where they are going to because I think that is the problem ' they do not know.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Can you give us an idea about when they might be certain of knowing what their future is? Is there a date?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

So did the LDA.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

I have quoted it to you. It says in the event that it becomes housing, it will be worth £5 million, which is quite right. They are not saying they are asking that.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Are you saying the details of one man, who you say is politically motivated, can you explain just what you mean? What do you mean by politically motivated? What party does he belong to? Does he belong to a party?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

I think it is worth pointing out that when you describe people as political it is normally because you do not approve of the opposition that they are offering. You use 'political' in a very derogatory sense and I think it is just worth pointing that out. I wanted to just briefly ask you about reports I read I think yesterday about residents in the area who are also going to be compulsorily purchased to move out. Would you agree with me that it is unacceptable that many of them have still not a clue where they are going to...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

You are saying businesses are asking for four to five times that because the LDA has told us: `Businesses are not asking that.' They can categorically confirm that businesses are not asking for these multiples.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Thank you, Mayor. You mentioned the Philip Waterfield situation but what you do not mention is ' and you did not actually answer the question ' how many have asked for four to five times. I put it to you that no business in Marshgate has asked for four to five times. Let me just quote you the Philip Waterfield quote as put out in the release and they are not talking about industrial land. Philip Waterfield's quote ' and he would stand by that ' is 'once the land is freed up for housing development, land values are going...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

They are not asking for that; they are asking for a fair price now. All the negotiations are in the region of £1 million - £1.5 million per acre but the problem is, and I go back to what I was saying before which is where I started to wade in and decided not to, that you `went in hard'. To me, the impression you are giving is that you are going in hard on the Marshgate people ' on the smaller traders, by claiming in the Sun, in Britain's, Europe's, the World's biggest selling paper, that `businesses in Marshgate...