• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

I quite agree, I change tubes there twice a day. I agree with you. All I am saying is, it is part of that budget.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

Camden Tube redevelopment is one of the things that could go if you do not get any money, is it not? On Val's (Shawcross) Underground question, can you establish the nature of the closure because at the Elephant and Castle they were due to re-open last July and they are still not open. So, can we have a confirmed length of closure and can we know what guarantees are in place and what penalties if it is not open within a contracted time? What seems to happen is you start something and they never finish and then it is the...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

As a constituency member who has recent experience of a bus replacement service when the Northern Line had the derailment at Camden, I hope Ms Shawcross has better luck in her constituency than my constituents had. Following on from that, will the Mayor confirm the rumours that the Northern Line will not be running properly till at least next March? There will be no Edgware trains to Charing Cross and no Barnet trains to Bank till next March. Will he make sure that this is not a prelude to making the Northern Line two separate lines and stopping the switchover...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

Thank you, that does sound very comprehensive. I think we all understand that this work needs to be done and it is good that Brixton Station is being refurbished overall. But, as well as the impact on the commuters, I think there is some concern about the impact on the shops in Brixton in the run-up to Christmas. Will you do everything you can to make sure that the work is carried out as quickly as possible because we did experience protracted delays on the lifts and other works in Brixton Station.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

In parts of East London and the Essex area of London there have been a number of developments recently of wind-power turbines. Some of the advice that we have received from ecologists is that it represents a threat to migrating birds. Do you actually have a position that you have taken on this issue, which encompasses both your biodiversity and your energy plans?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

Yes, because you did clearly say that you wanted a BedZed or carbon neutral in every single borough and if the first two that come forward are knocked back I think that probably will not help the case at all.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

Coming in on that very last point that Darren made, would you support the GLA supporting the BedZed planning inquiry that is going on at the moment, which is a carbon neutral construction in Merton and also the Harrow inquiry? You did say very clearly that planning is very important, but if we get these very early projects kicked back I think that will put a lot of the work that you are doing on the London Plan a few months or years, in fact, back. So, there is a public inquiry going on about that Merton case and also...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

Because it is too high or something.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

That level of detail is not something that is a strategic planning issue, a spatial development planning issue that would get into your London Plan. Part of our criticism of you is that you rely on your fairly limited powers instead of taking up a much more high-profile leadership role to get all the players round the table and, in our analysis, a UDC actually complicates that because it adds yet another layer of decision making.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

You said at the launch of Solar for London that `I can see no reason why every new building in London should not only have photovoltaics but also solar water heating panels installed on them." When is that going to happen?