Survey On Legacy Plots
March 10th, 2009 by admin
In May 08, the Society, funded by The Villiers Park Educational Trust, conducted a survey of people in the boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets and Hackney by inserting a flyer in the local papers asking people if they would be interested to have a plot in the Legacy Park. It was time to find out the level of local demand for plots as discussions with the LDA showed their intention to put MGS plots back in a hidden corner of the site behind a games venue and next to a flyover. Yet MGS is guaranteed by the Compulsory Purchase Order a larger site located in a like for like location. Over the last four decades at least four hundred allotment plots have been bulldozed in the lower Lea Valley (now Olympic Park) area to make way for roads, railways and now the Olympics.
The survey attracted a surprisingly high response rate for a survey of this type and from a wide demographic. Thank you to all those who responded. There are now almost two hundred people on the waiting list for MGS and Legacy plots. This is in addition to the long waiting list for plots in most inner London Borough. It takes four years to get a plot in Hackney. When funding has been found MGS plan to contact those who responded to the survey and invite them to put in design ideas for Legacy plots.
Our new community shed which is beginning to look more homely on the inside thanks to Cynthia’s donation of little gingham curtains and more grand and unique on the outside since RCA MA student, Thomas Pausz, built a classical portico.