• Reference: 2025/2874
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Is the GLA in any ongoing dialogue with the Civil Aviation Authority on managing and reducing the noise of helicopters in the West End?

• Reference: 2025/2873
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Could the Mayor please give me an update on his target of making 50 per cent of the Tube step-free?

• Reference: 2025/2872
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

What is the current funding status update for step-free access at South Kensington?

• Reference: 2025/2871
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Following the GLA’s procurement of Asana as a central project management system, what steps will follow to integrate this with borough planning functions to speed up decisions and improve transparency?

• Reference: 2025/2870
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

For major schemes like Brent Cross Town and the proposed West London Orbital, what planning tools is the Mayor implementing to ensure housing delivery aligns with transport provision?

• Reference: 2025/2869
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

How will the new London Plan build on lessons from schemes like Barking Riverside, where housing could only proceed after transport links were extended, to ensure future developments are planned alongside infrastructure?

• Reference: 2025/2868
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

How much industrial land has been lost in London in each of the past five years, and what steps is the Mayor taking to ensure that loss is offset by intensification, co-location or substitution where possible (in line with policy E7 of the current London Plan)?

• Reference: 2025/2867
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Can you provide more details on this programme? What outcomes or metrics will be used to assess the success of the ATLAS London pilot, and is the Mayor considering scaling up the programme if the pilot proves successful?

• Reference: 2025/2866
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Has the GLA developed any benchmarks or minimum staffing thresholds for borough planning departments, and if so, how do current borough resourcing levels compare to these benchmarks?

• Reference: 2025/2865
• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

What assessment options are officers considering to incorporate currently unmapped constraints (see question and answer 2025/2665) such as utilities, transport capacity and land ownership, into borough-level housing targets for the new London Plan?