‘Last Stand At Stratford’ BBC Documentary
March 10th, 2009 by admin
BBC2 Documentary to be shown 9pm Wednesday 11th March under series banner ‘Building the Olympic Dream’
Tells the stories of three of the evicted groups as we tried to prevent the land we lived on, owned or gardened, from being bought from under our feet by Compulsory Purchase Order. The footage of Manor Garden Allotments will bring a tear to the eye of anyone who visited the site before its destruction. It’s obvious beauty puts pay to the myth propagated by the London Development Agency and the government that the whole Olympic Park area was a wasteland until the Olympics came along to rescue us!
The programme has time for only the most basic description of the plight of the three. The Lifeisland Campaign to protect Manor Gardening Society is barely touched on, nor the lengthy negotiations with the LDA and eventual Judicial Review supported by Friends of the Earth. However the tensions caused within the society and the human impact of our struggle to resist eviction against mightly odds is apparent.
