• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Can you confirm that the interim plan specifies a boundary for the third runway development that could involve as many as 700 homes being demolished? Do you find that acceptable?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Mr Mayor, can I thank you for your commitment to the people of my constituency and around Heathrow, and I will thank you for your commitment on their behalf to supporting any public enquiry which comes on. You will appreciate the 700 people whose houses have been identified for knocking down, the 2,500 who have been identified as living within 500 metres of the knock-down houses, and the 37,000 whose air quality is going to be destroyed if the village of Sipson becomes a terminal and the third runway gets put in are living under an enormous pressure. They '...

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Do you find that it helps that Mr Rod Eddington (Chief Executive, British Airways) who, of course, as chief of British Airways, has actively led the campaign for expansion and the third runway at Heathrow, is now acting as transport advisor to the Labour Government?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Why dump the problem on Stansted, just because it is outside London.+ Are you taking a harder line now and being firmer? We welcome your position on Heathrow, but why can you not take the same position on Stansted?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Mr Mayor, the Ministers have announced a step-up of night flights, and they have done that by, first of all, announcing a new night-flight restriction, which makes no attempt to correct the defects of the noise quota system by introducing a new lower category for so-called `quieter aeroplanes,' whenever that happens. It is going to boost the number of arrivals before dawn. They have never accepted the fact that there is noise pollution from aeroplanes that crosses right across Wandsworth to Clapham Common and into Lambeth. There is, however, new mapping done by the Civil Aviation Authority on EU data...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Campaigning probably is not enough. In fact, why do you not lobby Government to put something through Parliament, because this is something that is happening all over Britain? London, I think, is leading the way, but you could put a bill through Parliament yourself. As I said, you are getting a Food Strategy soon that is going to say that we should have more street markets in London, but in fact, Elephant and Castle just down the road is losing a market. Now, Southwark Council is saying, `Oh, it is all right. We have a market in East Street. We...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

As we are reviewing certain things in the London Plan, including town centres, can you agree that we look at this in the context of that and see what mechanisms we can come up with? That is in addition to what you have just suggested.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

You actually helped Stratford be a clone-town Britain centre. That was that terrible development that is going ahead.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

We have just produced an excellent report ' you know how good our reports are ' about the real problems that we have in London, because since 2000, 14 major retail developments of the sort that have been called by the New Economics Foundation `clone-town Britain' have gone ahead in London or are in the pipeline. We are losing floor space, retail floor space to these clones, at the loss of various markets, that sort of thing. We have actually lost 186 football pitches of space to this sort of `clone-town Britain' stuff. Clearly, the London Plan is not strong...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

What is it that the Government actually agreed to back in January?