Built Environment Committee
3 November 2026
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Built Environment Committee Actual start House of Lords
Follow its sittings22:03 - 24:03
Speaker 1
Good morning and welcome to the Built Environment Committee and to the first evidence session of our inquiry on maintenance and enforcement in public spaces. Joining us today, I'm very pleased to see three very eminent practitioners: Patricia Brown, Director of Central; David Milner, Managing Director of Create Streets; and Ed Lennox, who is the Director of Operations at Clean Up Britain. Quite a spread of expertise and commitment there.
We've got a lot to get through this morning as always, so I'm going to ask the committee and witnesses to keep questions and answers short and sharp. And we're aware that David has to leave us for another select committee, they come along like buses clearly actually, so we will have to release you early.
Don't feel that each of you has to answer every question. If there's one of you that has a particular expertise and experience, please make that choice. I want to say, before I ask you to introduce yourself, that I wanted to put two fundamental questions, which are contextual questions, before I put my first formal question to you. And the one is just to be clear whether the, what would your definition, from your experience, be of the public realm and a public space, and whether they would be the same or different?
So maybe you could address that question when you introduce yourselves. The second question is even more fundamental, actually, which is, what is the exam question that this committee should really be addressing, with a hope of getting a very effective, and concise, and practical answer? And I would ask you to think about that in the course of the morning, because I think that's best come back to at the end, when we are thinking about the other gaps we might address and issues that might arise.
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