lifeisland – Manor Garden Olympic Allotments

Opportunity to quiz Ken Livingstone or Assembly members on why the allotments are to be sacrificed to some hastily planned, futuristic landscaping. Why ‘regeneration’ seems to mean ‘destruction’. Why locally produced food and healthy local communities count for nothing in the face of glamorous big development projects like the Olympics. Whatever is important to you.
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by David Mackay – architect for Barcelona’s Olympic Village and Port and co-author of the pre-Olympic masterplan for the Lower Lea Valley

The 2.5 km x 1 km.Olympic Box that lies between the A12 to the north and the A118 to the south, and stretches from one side to the other of the Lower Lea [...]

On 7th February, Waltham Forest Planning Committee refused the application for the proposed temporary allotment site on Marsh Lane Fields, an area of public open land which we were to be offered in exchange for the destruction of our established and secure location.
The London Development Agency have issued a Press Release on 13th February [...]

Why are they destroying our 100-year-old allotments to make way for the ‘Green Olympics’? By Michele Hanson, Tuesday Feb 13 2007

These have now been submitted and objections and comments can be made until 19th March.
The relevant applications are 07/90010/OUMODA and 07/90011/FUMODA – you can make comments online via these links. Planning documents can be accessed directly here

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