Drones

Drones used for deliveries save on labour. 

This means that they make people unemployed. 

With the exception of the emergency services, drone use should be heavily taxed to help support the newly unemployed

I don't see much use for them for members of the general public but I can see how they might be handy for the sorts of things mentioned in the intro above (deliveries etc.). But at the moment, I feel the negatives outweigh the positives. There certainly need to be more regulations about who can use them and how.

Regulate all drone usage. Only licensed users for approved commercial, security or safety purposes. 

Ban private use, at best it's really annoying, at worst its a great tool for criminals

Commercial drones for deliveries should be limited to specific operating hours. Delivery companies should be encouraged to use drones to reduce traffic. However it might be best to not allow drones to actually deliver anywhere where there is significant foot trafffic and there is both annoyance and danger if drones fly at pedestrian height.  
There probably should be a maximum weight limit allowed for unregistered drones. Enough for a camera, not enough for a weapon. 
The usage of drones for recreation should be severely limited. They can be quite annoying and few recreational drone users have the ability to both fly their drones and pay attention to whether or not they are bothering other people. Operators may think their drones are quiet but those of us with highly sensitive hearing might disagree.
I'm frankly conflicted about the idea of strict registration and limits on who is allowed to fly. I think that there needs to be some exemption for any use of drones to take aerial footage of newsworthy events to serve a public good. One can easily see citizens with drones assisting firerighters in looking for people inside a burning building, or capturing criminal behaviour. We all know that both protestors and the police can misbehave when the two groups clash, having lots of angles on events should encourage both sides to behave better.
I do think that some thought needs to be given to the impact on jobs, but given how often I see food delivery people violating traffic laws I have to imagine that there would be some social good in not having so many of them (of course this same benefit could be gained by prohibiting employers from encouraging workers to break the law to make deliveries on too tight a timetable). 

I think they should be very useful, and as long as they are tightly regulated, could be the future of efficiency within a variety of sectors.

Horrifying amount of cost and disruption already caused at airports. ok for emergency services but definitely should not be in the hands of private users wthout some very strong regulations to protect people's privacy and safety, Frightening what they can do in the hands of paparazzi . As mentioned before they are bad for the environment, distracting to drivers, dangerous if not properly controlled, they can kill and are wide open to abuse. i think we are a very long way away from being able to use them for any practical purposes such as deliveries.

Fine by me 

Potential for being a highly effective tool for professional use only. Emergency use should be prioritised, i.e delivery of medical items, as well as police and fire brigade operational a uses. Also important to permit the restricted and regulated use by professionals such as Surveyors for the inspection and monitoring of the City's buildings and infrastructure. Aside from the above, and perhaps for occssionally licenced event photography, there doesn't appear to be any real need for Drones generally  in the city otherwise. 

I agree with everyone: drones should be registered and vetted so they don’t get in the hand of criminal gangs and kids.. They should only be sold to government bodies and perhaps used by NHS to deliver special  medications but only from hospitals to other hospitals. I think organisations such as Amazon should be banned from delivering goods in London. Imagine we have  already a thousand planes flying above us and adding drones we would only make our lives less secure. Already drones are used by criminal gangs to deliver drugs and other objects into prisons and if they are not controlled they could deliver drungs to people everywhere  indiscriminately. I SAY NO to unregulated drones

Letting anyone buy and use drones is a complete disaster waiting to happen. Money blinded leaders forget that there are many people in this world who cannot/will not obey rules. If everyone followed rules we wouldn't need law enforcement.

Yes - there are many good uses for drones. So, why not only sell drones to organisations who can prove they will use the drone for good and are trained to use them? i.e. ONLY SELLING DRONES TO LICENCED USERS.

Not everyone NEEDS a drone and enforcing safe use of drones is near impossible. How did the person/people flying a drone near Gatwick Airport get away with it? The CAA drone code told them not to fly near airports, yet they still did! People don't listen. It's a joke to think if you write a drone code people will follow it.

I was once on a busy road and a drone was flown about a 2 meters from my car.

Imagine a drone in the hands of teenagers hanging around wanting to have a laugh or in the hands of a terrorist or just someone not mentally stable or someone who does not have the skills to control one but decides to use one in public (e.g. on holiday) anyway?

But yet again, if these companies want to make money at the cost of safety they will.

There should have been a ban on these being sold at the start. It will be hard to take these toys away from the babies of this world now.

Drones are a danger to aviation as seen recently - chaos at Gatwick and many thousands of lives affected.

Drones should be banned from sale to the public; only licensed operators.

Drones could be very useful in takling London's out of control criminal gangs. As long as drones are used within a clear set of guidlines and procedural rules, they should be a benefit to the Met and the wider public. The danger is overuse and overreliance on technology, which is no replacement for face to face community policing. Drones must not be used as a cost cutting exercise to further reduce officer numbers.

Very intrusive with few restrictions. I was gardening over the weekend last year when a drone was hovering above me for a very lon time on both the Saturday and Sunday. Nothing I could do but it felt very uncomfortable.

I feel that drones are useful in certain circumstances.

For example, police can use them where dangerous surveillance is required, hostage situations, missing people, traffic reports etc.  I think a drone would be less intrusive and cost-effective in such situations.  The same tasks are being done by helicopter anyway. So for government and local authorities, I think they are useful.

However, non-essential areas, such as recreational use, is more problematic.  I could see the growth of drones being used for fun, might get to a point where they would be dangerous.  For example, would we like to see out parks and gardens buzzing with hundreds of drones every weekend?  In the hands of the public, the regulation would be difficult to enforce.  I recall the Gatwick Airport incident.

I would agree with their use in the hands of authorities, once approved and regulated.

They should be tagged so that the Police can track them. They should also be licenced and confined to monitored spaces. If this isn't possible then they should be banned