• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 04 April 2001

You have said that, to accommodate 50% affordable housing on such sites, you would be willing to see a doubling of the density. Are you really advocating that, on riverside sites such as these, there should be twice the housing density which is already proposed in their UDPs?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 04 April 2001

When boroughs are crawling up to 13% a year, what action can we take with the SDS? You have called for 50%, but what will we be able to do about it?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 04 April 2001

It was quite galling to see all this in the press, and the flag-waving of 500 new homes, when the figure was 30% affordable housing 10 years ago, has crawled down to 20% over the last five years, and was barely 13% in the last two years. Are you aware of that appalling statistic of affordable housing in Wandsworth?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 04 April 2001

Oftel has a requirement that there is a direct relationship between the number of telephones which use cards and those that take cash; yet there is evidence in areas across London that payphones taking cash are used to support, and indeed finance, the drugs trade. Would you, in your approach to Oftel, be prepared to discuss with the MPS and the MPA where the siting and use of different forms of telephone boxes could be used? As for advertising, again, particularly around King's Cross, advertising on phone booths blocks CCTV which is being used to crack down on the drugs...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 04 April 2001

Obviously public telephones are important for public safety and access to emergency services, but they also play a really important role in ensuring that Londoners get home safely at night. I am sure you are aware that we have recently scrutinised this and other safety issues. People with mobile phones are fine when they reach their destination: they can just ring a taxi or something; but if there is no payphone available, you are limiting the possibility of people accessing either a taxi home or someone to come and pick them up. First, do you recognise the importance of that...

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 04 April 2001

Given that some London boroughs are demanding a separate planning application from the BT payphone service for each payphone box which has advertising, what provisions do you intend to make under the spatial development strategy to provide and facilitate advertising in public payphones, and to promote the existence of public payphones?

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 04 April 2001

I understand that pay phones have suffered a 37% fall in revenue in the past two years, perhaps because of the growth of mobile phones; but there are still a significant proportion of the population - around 5% - who do not have access to basic telephony services. Given that BT are by law forbidden to subsidise their pay phones, does the Mayor support paid advertising on the side panels of phone boxes to ensure that the network of pay phones is maintained?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 04 April 2001

: Could I interrupt? It has already been worked out. You have signed a contract off, and the detail has been discussed. There is no discussion now: he is either doing it or he is not doing it, and we have been misled. I took your comments and what the officer told me in good faith, but then I see these words in the business plan. Perhaps it should not be in there, but what am I to make of it? What would you make of it if you were in my position?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 04 April 2001

Malcolm Grant, in his letter, said that that was not to happen. What are we to believe?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 04 April 2001

Mr Mayor, when you issued your response to Westminster's UDP, and made quite a lot of comment about tall buildings in Paddington, did it occur to you to declare a conflict of interest, given that Lord Rogers is the architect of one of the tall buildings in question? Will not the problem for you be that he is the architect of many tall buildings all over London?