• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 07 March 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Ahmad, please? Marina Ahmad AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, panel. Gerry, you painted a really lovely picture of what the East Bank is at the moment and what it is going to be like. When can we expect it to be fully open?

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 07 March 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Best please. Emma Best AM: Thank you. Good morning, panel. I wanted to turn to the Copper Box Arena. Just recently the contract for the next ten years has been awarded to Greenwich Leisure Ltd (GLL). I wondered if you could talk a little bit about what you see as the future for the Copper Box Arena for the next ten years as well with the investment that is going to be made.

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 07 March 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Assembly Member Baker, please? Elly Baker AM: Thank you, Chair. My questions are also on Stratford Station. Thank you to Assembly Member Pidgeon for getting an update on where we are in terms of business case and potential upgrading of the station. Just to say, Lord Hendy, I was pleased to hear that you got the Rail Minister down, although being a regular user of Stratford Station, the best thing you could have done is leave him in a corner of Stratford Station and see whether he could find his way to anywhere else and that...

• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 07 March 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. District heating systems have been raised constantly on this Assembly in the past and in my view, they never work, but still, you better take a few seconds off my timer. Assembly Member Rogers, please? Nick Rogers AM: Thank you, Chair. A question probably for Gerry, but other guests please feel free to chip in. I am thinking back to a site visit that we did maybe a couple of years ago as part of the work of the Budget and Performance Committee. It was very interesting to watch effectively the construction of a...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 March 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Assembly Member Berry, please? Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much, Chair. I also have questions that I hope Lord Hendy might be able to answer. So, Peter, I wanted to pick up on active travel. In May of last year there was a press release from the LLDC that said there was £150 million of investment in walking and cycling to come. It outlined 26 schemes in total. Now, much of this was work that should have been done in the QEOP plans from the start, not added in later, much as the heat networks...

• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 07 March 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Assembly Member Bokhari, please? Hina Bokhari AM: Thank you, Chair. Lord Hendy, I recently met some residents from the East Village, the former Olympic Village, and many of those residents are key workers, police officers, teachers, nurses, but they continue to live in unsafe flats awaiting an External Wall System One form. In January a First-tier Tribunal (FTT) found in favour of the residents in Triathlon Homes, the ruling found that Get Living [Plc] was liable for the remediation works for five blocks within the East Village. Get Living have since said that they will be...

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 07 March 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Russell, please? Caroline Russell AM: Thank you, Chair. My questions are for Lord Hendy, Chair of LLDC. So, Peter, my colleagues and I have been asking questions about your district energy network, the network that is installed in the LLDC area was originally set up to use gas. The Mayor has set a target to decarbonise London by 2030, but Equans, in a road map in 2022, showed that gas would still be in use on the LLDC network up to about 2036. You do have plans to move to zero-carbon forms...

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 07 March 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Sheikh, please? Sakina Sheikh AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning to the panel. It has been really fantastic to hear about what has been achieved so far in the LLDC and for me one of the founding aspirations, not just with the LLDC regeneration, but more broadly with regeneration in London, is to ensure that any regeneration of the area also improves the lives of local people. As I was saying, one of the founding aspirations of the LLDC regeneration was improving the lives of local people. A lot of the policies...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 07 March 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Pidgeon, please? Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: My question is to the Chair, Lord Hendy, and you have just announced your stepping down in December. Thank you for all your work on LLDC and with Lyn [Garner] as well, the Chief Exec. I want to pick up the issue of Stratford Station, which Rosanna briefly mentioned at the start. Last year you will recall I talked about Stratford Station, one of the busiest Network Rail stations in the UK, one of the busiest stations on the Transport for London (TfL) network. It is...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 07 March 2024

Lord Bailey of Paddington AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning to the panel. I want to quickly just focus on housing delivery, and if I maybe start with Rosanna and then if the other two panel members have anything to add, please do free. In the 2022 Kerslake Review [into Strategic Affordable Housing Delivery in London], it was found that LLDC housing delivery team was well resourced, but housing delivery numbers were modest. Are you satisfied with the LLDC’s housing delivery? Are you satisfied it is providing good value for money? If not, what will you do to resolve this?