• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

I like the vision; I am just not sure that is where the wand and the magic come in " it is how you get that together. With all the agencies and all the boards and all the steering groups and all of these people, it does not seem to me that there are clear lines of responsibility as yet. I just wonder how disputes and conflicts will be resolved and, ultimately, who has sway? Can the Mayor just come in and say `because I say so"?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

My question is to Richard (Brown). I welcome the comments you made about the fact that everything must be done to avoid Thames Gateway being `dull'. I just want to take you a bit further and say, rather than stopping it being dull, would you agree with me that perhaps one of the things that we need to see developing quite quickly, because it has not had much time spent on it, is a cultural and creative strategy for Thames Gateway, including the existing cultural infrastructure, and I would include Havering and the established centres, so that you do not...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

That sounds an improvement on many previous UDCs, but how do we actually make that happen?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

I will be very quick, because Lynne (Featherstone) has covered some of the points that I wanted to raise anyway. But how do we ensure that the UDC is not just about circumventing the local democratic process and that we do not sideline the input from the boroughs and from the local communities below that?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004