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• Reference: 2017/3382
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Can you guarantee that 50% of homes built on the OPDC site will be genuinely affordable?

• Reference: 2017/3381
• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

When will the OPDC own sufficient land resources to deliver 25k homes?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Joanne McCartney AM: Thank you. I want to ask about the National Audit Office (NAO) report last year. It was reported in that report that the DfT had asked HS2 to assess the impact of extending the timetable for phase one up to 12 months. I am just wondering what impact that would have on your development schedule?

• 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: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Finally, you mentioned as well that it is not just about tackling the issue of low pay here, but it is making sure that people are paid a decent wage for all work done in relation to the Olympics. Therefore, in terms of merchandise being imported and so on, will you be making sure that there are guarantees that that is not through sweatshop labour, and that there are principles of fair trade, fair pay, and so on incorporated into that?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Would you not agree with the me that, actually, the approach to take now is to sweep away this bureaucracy and have exactly what you have said: a simple organisation that everyone can understand, so if things go wrong, we know who to look to, rather than it being obscured all over the place?