lifeisland – Manor Garden Olympic Allotments

Robin Shelton, author of ‘Allotted Time’, will raise a toast to Manor Garden Allotments at a party on Sunday 1st April 07 at the plots.
With the LDA’s threatened eviction cancelled until July, plot holders, friends and supporters will celebrate and demonstrate to the Olympic Authorities how popular these allotments [...]

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Hey driver, spare my peas…
Optimistic allotmenteers prepare for the growing season

Freshly delivered piles of manure could be seen sitting by the allotment track on this sunny Sunday in March 2007, an unlikely symbol of determination and staying power.
Just as if it was any other year in the long history [...]

Fool’s Gold – The stories behind the 2012 Olympics
Developers fail to meet evicted gardeners

If they’d been competing in the Olympics, it would have been a case of no-show. The London Development Agency (LDA), which is responsible for the development of the Olympic site, failed to turn up to a meeting it had arranged last Sunday [...]

Transport to the allotments:
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by Train or bus: Silverlink Train to Hackney Wick Station then 267
bus or walk for 15 mins via Carpenters Rd. Turn left onto Waterden
Rd. Entrance is on the right next to the bus depot.
by Car: Along the North Circular and towards London on the A12.
At the signposting for [...]

The best we can do is store your plants and trees, says the Mayor
In a brief exchange with London Assembly Member Peter Hulme Cross last week (see full text at the end of this post), the unfortunate Mayor Livingstone tried to explain how constructing an Olympic Park round a little allotment site seems to present [...]

“Turn right by a scrapyard, right again just beside a bus depot, cross a small bridge and you come to Reg Hawkins’ patch of east London heaven…”
“…Given the immense effort of will expended to bring the Games to London in the first place, against the odds, I cannot believe the Olympic masterplan could not be [...]

Thanks to everyone who has submitted objections to the planning applications and requested more time to view them. Today, George Monbiot comments on the inaccessible documents:
“East Londoners are told the games will be good for them, yet it has been made almost impossible for them to have their say…”
The Guardian

PHOTOGRAPHIC TREASURE

HUNT
AT MANOR GARDEN ALLOTMENTS
for all allotment holders and their children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews and children of family and friends who have been part of the allotments
Saturday March 24th 10.30am-1.00pm and
Sunday March 25th 2.00pm-4.00pm
Please join artist-photographers Caroline Christie and Bobby Lloyd of On Site Arts for two photographic workshops:
On Saturday [...]

Yesterday evening at People’s Question Time: Julie asks Ken Livingstone why the allotments, along with its sustainable community, are to be sacrificed. She invites him to visit the gardens, meet with other plot holders and share the home-grown food and hospitality which is the allotment experience.

A supporter asks the Mayor what reason he can [...]

Quote from the London Mayor at the last People’s Question Time, 21 Nov 2006 -
“There are some allotments which happen to be just in the middle of where the stadium is going to be and there is no option but to take them. However, we will be providing new [...]