Transport: London as a whole has this enormous concentration, probably an over concentration of jobs in the centre, and it can only sustain that by sucking in labour from enormous distances every day, these huge floods of people that come in from Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire and Essex and everywhere. Locally it’s not really sustainable, it has to be done by long distance commuting, so we have all these expensive railway tracks loaded with crowded trains in the morning going back empty for the next lot of people, and in the evening packed with people going home and returning empty for the next lot. This is an incredibly inefficient use of the track and the trains and energy, and really we should be trying to get more of the housing into the centre near where the jobs are to reduce the amount of travelling. Not everybody wants to live in the centre but some people jolly well would if there was more space. Equally it’s very important to get more of the jobs out of the centre to sub-centres, you know to get more jobs out in Stratford or Wood Green or Brent Cross or you know other places in the suburbs or outside where there are lot of people living, very few local jobs and they could be employed locally. So in terms of the kind of big ecology of London and the flows of people, the big priority I think is to keep the lid on employment numbers in central London - especially jobs in these big corporations which bring people in from enormous distances - and try and concentrate as much of the space on housing. This transcript is part of King's Cross Central - A Development Challenge