lifeisland – Manor Garden Olympic Allotments

Take Your Marks …, Get Set …, Don’t Go !
Roll Up, Roll Up, Olympics time,
We simply cannot wait,
As Twenty Twelve comes ever near,
Oh what a magic date!
So sorry but that’s not quite true,
There’s something else to know.
A lovely patch of gardening track
Is being told to go.

Following the granting of planning permission for the Marsh Lane replacement site on Tuesday evening, and negotiations with the LDA today, it was decided that the Judicial Review would be cancelled. It was to have commenced tomorrow the 14th June.
Thanks to everyone who was planning to come along and show support.

Yet again, the publicity-averse London Development Agency have let everyone down with a last minute cancellation.
BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on 12 June was due to include a live broadcast from Manor Gardens Allotments – which are spectacularly beautiful at the moment, humming with bees and alive with birds, a real cornucopia of colour and [...]

Olympic Games 2012: Allotments
4 Jun 2007 2.52 pm
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer asked Her Majesty’s Government:
Whether they will make the Olympic site an exemplar site of sustainable development; and whether any features of the current design recognise the features already on site that could be exemplars of sustainable city living.
Lord Davies of Oldham: My [...]

Planning Laws which constrain the Olympic masterplanners from greater flexibility and responsiveness are being debated as we speak. With six months of detailing still to do on the Olympic Park masterplan, architects abandoning the project and masterplanners expressing huge concerns about quality, time and money could still be saved along with [...]

Lifeisland. Habitats and land around the allotments are already being disturbed. Wildlife, no longer safe on these churned earths, are rushing to the join their neighbors on the allotments to seek refuge. Our Plan B proposes that the allotment site, alongside other areas in the Olympic park could be left, as islands of life, while [...]