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• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. I wondered if I could ask you, Liz, about the governance issues. In particular, are you confident that the OPDC has the correct governance arrangements and the capacity to simultaneously negotiate public land transfer and co-ordinate the development now occurring on private land?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Len Duvall AM: Can we go back to the Crossrail depot? Do you both agree with Sir Terry Farrell’s [British architect] comments when he says the failure to plan to deck over the Crossrail depot represents London’s worst cock-up in 50 years?

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Navin Shah AM: Thank you, Chair. May I raise an issue about locality versus density impact? The question is: how can the OPDC produce a successful local destination from the start of this project, given the tensions that there are or there will be resulting from the densities and heights required to fund this national rail interchange?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Nicky Gavron AM: Good morning, Liz and Victoria. I want to ask a few questions about the industry and business premises and land in the OPDC area. You have there the largest concentration, probably, in western Europe of business and, broadly speaking, industrial premises and land. It is, arguably, the engine of London and the UK’s industrial economy. It is very farsighted of you that you have taken out an Article 4 direction to block the change of use to housing overnight from warehousing and from offices. When did that come into force as a direction?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Andrew Boff AM: Developers and designers and landowners effectively will get away with what they can in terms of developments. Is there not some advantage in advance of developments being submitted for planning approval of saying what the parameters of such a development are going to be?

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Fiona Twycross AM: I wanted to correct the impression that was given that the way it has been operating at the moment has been simply about opposition Members [on LFEPA] getting at the Mayor. The fact is that the Mayor has insisted on managing by Direction even when there has not been an impasse, including on issues over which there has been cross‑party agreement by LFEPA Members. I just wondered if you could focus a little bit on what impact the Mayor’s insistence on management by Direction has had. To be honest, we have had Directions on all sorts of...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Chairman, probably this is one for you as the politician of the two of you. The fact is, surely, that government, particularly local government, has been changing very considerably over recent years. That is accepted. The straight point to you: is it not correct that perhaps LFEPA in its current form is out of date and past its sell‑by date, really?

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Fiona Twycross AM: We obviously have to make sensible use of resources in the face of cuts. Some of the new technology that could come online is really interesting and will offer exciting possibilities, but do you agree with the Londoner who contacted me yesterday to say that £283,000 for a website rebuild is bordering on scandalous?