• Reference: 2014/3866
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

In January this year a local councillor raised concerns about TfL's potted plants along Bowes Road being unsuitable for the location due to the amount of space they take up, causing difficulty for cyclists and pedestrians to pass, particularly if they have mobility issues or prams. After contacting TfL repeatedly regarding this issue throughout this year and not receiving adequate responses, the councillor has recently received the response: "Thank you for your continued correspondence regarding the potted plants on Bowes Road. Please accept my apologies that this matter is taking so long to come to a satisfactory resolution. Due to...

• Reference: 2014/3865
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

A local cyclist has written to me raising concerns with vehicles speeding and encroaching into the bus lanes during restricted times, in particular along the A10 Great Cambridge Road from White Hart Lane to the Cambridge Road roundabout, especially between its junction with Pasteur and Lister Gardens. Residents often use bus lanes to cycle in when there is a lack of dedicated cycle lanes, and the speeding along bus lanes during restricted times is dangerous. What action will you take to prevent this issue before there is a serious accident? Will you please investigate whether a segregated cycleway along this...

• Reference: 2014/3864
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

I have repeatedly raised the issue of the closure of the Wilmer Way/Bowes Road footbridge stairs which are currently taped up due to a structural fault. In March, TfL informed me that the stairs on the footbridge were closed due to a structural failure of pin joints at these locations and investigations were being carried out to establish the cause of the failure, and to remedy the problem as quickly as possible. However, further to that email TfL responded in June to inform me that the footbridge was still accessible via the ramps at present with no indication of when...

• Reference: 2014/3863
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Can you please provide a list of all GLA owned sites which are "non-developable" and the reason they cannot be developed?

• Reference: 2014/3862
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

In response to question 2014/2080, you reported that, of the land that you inherited in 2012, 56% is "built out, infrastructure or non-developable". Can you please provide a breakdown?

• Reference: 2014/3861
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

How are you monitoring compliance to your mayoral 'concordat' with developers that "new homes on every development… will be available for sale to Londoners before, or at the same time as they are available to buyers from other countries"?

• Reference: 2014/3860
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

I was recently asked by a member of the public to put the following question to you: "As a Londoner by birth and a resident for over fifty years, I have seen many changes to our great capital city - almost exclusively for the better. However, there is one aspect about which I feel deeply embarrassed - the large number of (usually) official refuse bags left on the street. Whilst this is predominantly a phenomenon of central London, it is also to be found in boroughs further out - especially in shopping areas. I understand that there is a policy...

• Reference: 2014/3859
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Savills recently said that London has now surpassed Hong Kong as the world's most expensive city, largely due to the high cost of housing. Do you agree that this is a serious problem. If so, do you agree that your policies have failed to prevent this, and therefore what policies require change to reverse this?

• Reference: 2014/3858
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

What London Plan policies will need to be amended following the implementation of the Government's Housing Standards Review? Can you please describe these changes?

• Reference: 2014/3857
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Are you confident that the method by which the GLA announces dates for public hearings into planning applications which you have taken over is the best way to inform both stakeholders and the public?