lifeisland – Manor Garden Olympic Allotments

PRESS RELEASE SAT 28TH APRIL. IMMEDIATE
Too little, too late! After almost two years of meeting with plot holders and repeatedly promising to carefully move this 100 year old community to a suitable site before eviction the London Development Agency (LDA) now say they haven’t made any ‘promises or commitments’.
These much filmed and photographed picturesque [...]

Everyone who showed their support by signing our Downing Street Petition will now have seen the response. The usual discredited, fallacious and factually incorrect arguments from the PR machine, cut and pasted, with no attempt to address the criticisms we have repeatedly made. Most of their statements were already challenged in the ‘Location and [...]

Another version of the planning application for relocation of current plotholders was registered with Waltham Forest council on 30th March.
Full documentation of the LDA’s plans is available online here
CLOSING DATE FOR COMMENTS & OBJECTIONS IS NOW WEDNESDAY 2ND MAY.
There is an online comments form or dcmail@walthamforest.gov.uk (Reference No. is 2007/0582)
The site is in [...]

Manor from heaven
For more than a century, the Manor Garden allotments have been a fertile source of fruit and veg for many local families. But if the Olympic planners have their way, the poppies and potatoes will be concreted over to make way for a showcase riverside walkway. Simon Garfield meets the fighting gardeners who [...]

Olympics race to save fish, bats and bees – The Observer – 15 Apr 2007

Fish will be knocked unconscious, newts lured into traps and rare birds given new nests as part of an effort to save wildlife from being crushed by bulldozers working on the London Olympics…
The planner’s propaganda absurdly presented the Olympic site as [...]

mylondondiary.co.uk April 2007 – thanks Peter
“a still life photographer could spend their life here and never exhaust the subject matter”

‘Allotments promote sustainability and biodiversity, harbour wildlife, bring people together and are beneficial to the nation’s physical and mental health. Manor Garden could be a shining example of all these positive things, if only it were given the reprieve it needs.’
‘Lets not lose the plots’ by Clare Foster (Times Online)