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Tom Sleigh

Tom Sleigh

American poet and dramatist

Jul 9, 2026

9:59
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9:59
in missed growth.
10:00
And you mentioned the floor space sizes, the, the difference.
10:04
And there's an important point here.
10:05
It's not just about a few percent.
10:07
So it's not saying, "Oh, the cluster will be a few percent smaller." First of all, the few, a few percent of a really big number is still a very large number, and we churn out more than a hundred billion a year in economic output, so a few percent of that is large.
14:12
But, um, look, realistically, m- maybe a very difficult question to answer, but when do you now expect the city plan to actually be adopted? Um, and what's your message to investors and developers that will be watching and listening to this about where things go from here?
2:50
commercial real estate.
2:53
You probably saw, however, that this is kind of now escalated.
2:57
And our plan's suspension has now knocked on to Tower Hamlets.
3:03
And so the inspections that were due to take place this week of the Tower Hamlets plan, well, they're now postponed.
3:11
And I don't think they have a date either.
3:13
So suddenly we're in this very unfortunate position of having... two local development plans so growth plans one for the city of london which is 110 billion pounds of economic output every year one for tower hamlets which has some really important work to do in in housing but also has canary wharf and carry wolf i think is i don't know it's well over 10 billion a year of economic output and again you know 150 000 jobs to our 675 000 jobs So in a stroke, with one letter, you've suddenly suspended these two kind of crucially important, to the economy, crucially important growth plans.
3:54
And so we were, I think, rightfully very frustrated when we got the news and are still very concerned at the open-endedness of this.
5:50
Do you have any particular views on those at the moment or implications if they were ultimately the preferred option
3:01
Not so much passionate about being a mom.
3:04
No.
3:05
I remember when I was in my 20s, my mom said to me, you know, Tom, motherhood, it just wasn't my thing.
3:14
And, you know, that had its downside.
3:16
She was frequently unhappy in that role of mother.
3:20
Because of that, there was a certain amount of anger that just came out of her.
3:26
And it kind of fell on us.
3:51
And what did she say?

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