• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

The other question I have is on the work of London Remade, that you quite rightly have said is doing some fantastic work across London. I introduced Victor Anderson to the lead member Hugh Carr-Harris in the lift about nine months ago. Do you think Victor has actually met with London Remade on a regular basis?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

On that last point about planning I was curious if you had supported your environmental advisor to go and talk to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) to try to eliminate some of the problems that we are experiencing with getting the London Plan through. Has your environmental advisor, Victor Anderson, done that?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

But even if you did not have the powers, you have offered advice to developers on some fairly low levels in terms of your planning negotiation. You have got into big discussions about lidos and things like that, which some people would argue are not of strategic importance. Why are you not even offering developers advice at this stage in terms of the strategic referrals you are getting on energy?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

What about this building? Last year I raised the fact that the lights were left on all the time and it still seems to be the case. Surely something should have been done about that by now?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

They do it now. Since two weeks ago.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

One point that you did not raise there in your discourse is that this is also a flood alleviation mechanism, something the flooding scrutiny did look at. There will be an element of ensuring that we do have flood storage capacity and that it is not just beautiful green spaces but also a very practical requirement in that area. There has been concern actually, because the latest divvy up of money to the particular area did not give much to the Green Grid. I think that Noel's point there is quite an interesting one. It does need a lot of...

• Question by: Noel Lynch
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Will you be putting pressure on developers to come up with some of this money?

• Question by: Noel Lynch
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

A lot has happened on the ground, but the Government has shown very little impetus to do anything about it. Will you be using your seductive skills and tenacity to chase the Government into this?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

It is not true.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Certainly, in Barnet, we are coning roads where buses are having difficulties passing each other and getting through, and we are coning roads around the bus pick up points so that these buses can move freely. Finally, is the Mayor satisfied that the buses that are being provided are safe and of sufficient quality? If one just looks at the registration numbers it does seem we have dragged in every old bus from anywhere in the South of England.