The visitor for the second version of On London’s new podcast collaboration with The London Society is Sir Sadiq Khan’s deputy mayor for planning and regeneration
Jules Pipe rose to prominence in London authorities when he turned chief of the Hackney Council Labour group after which, from 2001, chief of the council, and set about rescuing the borough from the calamitous collapse of its funds, providers and organisation on the again finish of the Nineties. In October 2002, he turned Hackney’s first immediately elected Mayor and was re-elected to that place in 2006, 2010 and 2014 earlier than resigning in 2016 to change into Sadiq Khan’s Deputy Mayor for Planning and Regeneration.
As such, Pipe has been an enormously necessary determine at Metropolis Corridor, central to drawing up the capital’s statutory spatial growth technique – higher often known as The London Plan – which defines what will get constructed the place in Better London and the way, and dealing with boroughs, builders, nationwide authorities and mayoral group colleagues to place the Mayor’s insurance policies into impact on the bottom, encompassing housing, transport, financial “good development”, environmental priorities and extra.
However though his position is pivotal, Pipe has fairly a low public profile and his work, in a posh coverage space with many transferring components that politicians alone don’t management, is just not extensively understood. On London and The London Society had been subsequently delighted when he agreed to speak to us for the second version of our Speak About London podcast collection.
He talked to London Society chair Leanne Tritton and I about his job and the way it has modified since Labour’s normal election win, progress to this point on the subsequent London Plan, and Metropolis Corridor’s hopes for the federal government’s spending evaluate scheduled for June.
Amongst different issues, he underlined that the final authorities’s anti-London angle went nicely past rhetoric and he was upfront about Metropolis Corridor’s hopes for funding for transport infrastructure that might result in the creation inside London of what is perhaps termed a New City.
The podcast might be watched by way of the On London YouTube channel beneath or listened to by way of the London Society web site. That good cardigan I’m carrying is by Paul Smith, by the best way.
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