Skip to main content
Mayor of London logo London Assembly logo
Home

Culture at Risk Office

  • Reference: 2020/2355
  • Question by: Joanne McCartney
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2020
How many organisations and individuals has your Culture at Risk Office helped since the start of the COVID-19 crisis?

Mayoral meetings and hospitality

  • Reference: 2020/2353
  • Question by: Nicky Gavron
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2020
Could you provide a list of engagements, hospitality and gifts received by the Mayor of London and/or his Chief of Staff between 1 July 2015 and 1 May 2016?

Westferry Printworks decision

  • Reference: 2020/2352
  • Question by: Nicky Gavron
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2020
Could you provide copies of all emails, agendas, minutes and notes associated with the planning decision for the Former Westferry Printworks that was made on 27 April 2016, GLA case number 3363. Please include internal GLA emails as well as external emails with personal information redacted where appropriate.

New Permitted Development Rights

  • Reference: 2020/2351
  • Question by: Nicky Gavron
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2020
Do you support the Government’s introduction next month of a new permitted development right for the two-storey upward extension of blocks of flats? How can you assist boroughs in mitigating their impacts?

Architecture Design and Urbanism Panel

  • Reference: 2020/2350
  • Question by: Nicky Gavron
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2020
How many of the 92 companies appointed to your Architecture Design and Urbanism Panel are led by people from a) Black; b) Asian and c) other minority ethnic groups?

Diesel trains in Gospel Oak

  • Reference: 2020/2345
  • Question by: Andrew Dismore
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2020
Residents inform me that diesel powered freight trains at night run on the Overground Line around Gospel Oak, which causes pollution and extremely disturbing noise. Can TfL take action to prevent these diesel engines being used, and what options are feasible, such as overhead electrification, that might end the necessity of freight trains on the line here at night?

Hampstead Heath Ponds

  • Reference: 2020/2344
  • Question by: Andrew Dismore
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2020
In 2005 The City of London, who run Hampstead Heath introduced a ‘self-policed’ charging system at the bathing ponds which had hitherto always been free to use in much the same way as beaches are available for swimming. In the fifteen years that ‘voluntary’ payment has been required, many swimmers have either not been aware of the charges or assumed that they weren’t taken seriously by the City, who failed to communicate the charges clearly and proved unsuccessful at collecting them. In January of this year the City announced a consultation on managing the ponds, which was responded to by...

384 bus

  • Reference: 2020/2343
  • Question by: Andrew Dismore
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2020
The Mayoral response to the Victoria Quarter planning application (GLA/5034/AB/01, 20/1719/FUL, page 75 para 72) asks for a contribution of £90,000 pa for 5 years to strengthen the 384 service. This would alter the viability of the existing route and provide a valid reason to at least postpone route changes until the outcome of the planning application is known. Will you consider this?

Face coverings on tube

  • Reference: 2020/2342
  • Question by: Andrew Dismore
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2020
You have rightly required tube users to wear face coverings; however, many passengers are not obeying this instruction, especially in ticket halls and on platforms, as well as in carriages. Will you improve your messaging in posters and by public address, to make clear that the face coverings rule applies throughout, specifically referring to ticket halls and platforms, not just carriages; and what steps will you take to beef up enforcement?

Borough lockdowns

  • Reference: 2020/2341
  • Question by: Andrew Dismore
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2020
If the Government bring in specific borough lockdowns to deal with areas of high infections, how will this be effectively enforced, especially along borough borders?
Subscribe to