• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

Who will make the final decision about what goes in the consultative response from the GLA family to Government?

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

How are you going to coordinate the response of the GLA family to the Government's study on airports, because on the one hand you have, in the air quality strategy, noise strategy and the energy strategy, a lot of concern expressed about the environmental impact of aviation, but on the other hand, we have the public section of the report to the LDA Board in June which is very pro-airport expansion. How are you going to bring these two sides of the argument together?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

I agree with you on that but why does the London Plan continue to support policies for an unsustainable level of demand for air traffic?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

The London Plan talks about minimising the negative environmental impacts of runway extensions and new airports. How practically can we do this? Are we going to be looking at zero emission aircraft? Is that minimising the negative environmental impact? Are we talking about runways that can be rolled up and put in a cupboard at the end of the day?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

Do you honestly believe that the current growth in air traffic in London is sustainable?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

Given that the London Plan supported this sort of runway capacity, which of the government's options that were published yesterday do you favour?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

We could be seeing a congestion charge for air traffic as well as road traffic?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

Would you welcome powers to impose a charging regime for air traffic?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

Referring to all the strategies, I'm looking at the SDS, the air quality strategy and the noise strategy here, all the relevant parts. We seem to be missing a trick because there is a European directive out at present which enables local airports and strategic airports to impose their own air quality and noise restrictions. In none of these documents that I have in front of me do you stress that this is important, although, at the same time, you do say that you see the need for expansion. Looking through the document that was out yesterday, I was aware...

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

Thank you. I am going to look forward to your bringing the groups together. Could I suggest that one approach which would be helpful would be for you to suggest, as part of the planning approach, that predict and provide really is outdated. The Government said no to it in terms of roads policy but seems not to have done with regards to runway capacity, and I have to say the draft London Plan seems, as regard airports, to be a bit predict and provide. Wouldn't it be better to go to the plan/monitor/manage approach which is much more likely...