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Old Oak and Park Royal – a ship without a captain

OPDC local plan scale model
Created on
22 March 2017
  • Why has the OPDC gone so long without a Chair?
  • How will it cope in 2017-18 with a 40 percent funding cut?
  • What are the OPDC’s key priorities for the next year, once it develops plans for becoming self-funding?
  • How will the £2 million contingency funding be used?
  • What plans does the OPDC have to take over the land currently owned by the Department for Transport (DfT) and Transport for London (TfL)?

The London Assembly Budget Monitoring Sub-Committee [1] will tomorrow put questions to The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC).

The following guests will attend:

  • Victoria Hills, Chief Executive, OPDC
  • Doug Wilson, Chief Finance Officer, OPDC

The meeting will take place on Thursday, 23 March from 2 pm in Committee Room 5 at City Hall (The Queen’s Walk, London SE1).

Media and members of the public are invited to attend.

The meeting can also be viewed via webcast.

Follow us @LondonAssembly and take part in the meeting discussion using #AssemblyBudget #OPDC

Notes to editors

 

  1. The terms of reference for the Budget Monitoring Sub-Committee can be found here and its purpose is to consider the quarterly monitoring reports provided by the GLA and its functional bodies as referred to it by the Budget and Performance Committee, and any other reports falling within the terms of reference of the Budget and Performance Committee which that Committee considers appropriate, and to report back its findings to the Budget and Performance Committee as necessary
  2. Gareth Bacon AM, Chairman of Budget Monitoring Sub-Committee is available for interview.  See contact details below.
  3. As well as investigating issues that matter to Londoners, the London Assembly acts as a check and a balance on the Mayor.

 

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