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Impact of Government’s proposed new Permitted Development Right

  • Reference: 2021/0351
  • Question by: Nicky Gavron
  • Meeting date: 21 January 2021
In answer to my question 2020/4485 you expressed concern that the Government’s new Use Class E, that amalgamates shops, offices, surgeries, nurseries, gyms and light industry into a single use class, would be detrimental to the high street. Are you also concerned that further government proposed changes to permitted development rights, allowing any of these uses to become residential, will threaten London’s high streets and town centres even more?

Reinventing the High Street

  • Reference: 2021/0376
  • Question by: Navin Shah
  • Meeting date: 21 January 2021
How is the London Recovery Board ‘reinventing the high street’ in Outer London and what actions are being considered, both during the pandemic and beyond to halt the decline of high streets and create self-sufficient neighbourhoods contributing to the local economy and that of London?

Police Covid Impact

  • Reference: 2021/0167
  • Question by: Steve O'Connell
  • Meeting date: 21 January 2021
It has recently been reported that due to Covid, there were 1300 Met Police Officers either ill or self-isolating. What is the current situation and what impact has this had on policing London?

Waking Watch Relief Fund

  • Reference: 2021/0313
  • Question by: Andrew Dismore
  • Meeting date: 21 January 2021
The Government has announced a ‘Waking Watch Relief Fund’ that will pay for fire alarm systems to be installed in high rise residential buildings which have had to have waking watches as temporary fire safety measures because of fire safety defects which have still not been fixed three and a half years after the Grenfell Tower fire. This fund, however, will not actually pay for waking watches, only a fire alarm system. Many buildings need both. The LFB says there are (as at 18 December) 590 buildings with temporary fire safety measures and around 250 of these just have waking...

Covid-19 Data

  • Reference: 2021/0044
  • Question by: David Kurten
  • Meeting date: 21 January 2021
Which data sources do you use to inform your statements on Covid-19?

Rough sleeping in the second wave – during winter

  • Reference: 2021/0360
  • Question by: Murad Qureshi
  • Meeting date: 21 January 2021
What action is being taken to support Londoners who are sleeping rough during this second wave of COVID-19, which has hit during the winter?

The Extraordinary Funding and Financing Agreement for Transport for London

  • Reference: 2021/0356
  • Question by: Alison Moore
  • Meeting date: 21 January 2021
What does London need to make TfL financially sustainable by 2023?

Electric Buses

  • Reference: 2021/0238
  • Question by: Tony Devenish
  • Meeting date: 21 January 2021
With the news that Coventry and Oxford are set to become the first UK all-electric bus cities, how long will it take London to join them?

Support for the 3 million excluded

  • Reference: 2021/0352
  • Question by: Joanne McCartney
  • Meeting date: 21 January 2021
What actions have you taken as Mayor to help support those Londoners who are part of the 3 million excluded from current support packages?

Policing implications of leaving the EU

  • Reference: 2021/0290
  • Question by: Unmesh Desai
  • Meeting date: 21 January 2021
What impact has there been on the Met’s operations following the end of the Brexit transition period and the loss of EU policing tools which were previously in place?
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