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""The British Olympic council is planning to compulsory purchase and bulldoze Stratford Allotments to make paths for the Olympic Village."

Petition here:
http://petitionthem.com/default.asp?sect=detail&pet=3540

(from

purpletigron and others)

In general, the Olympics are going to make a real mess of the Lea Valley. Are there any organised resistance movements already in existence?

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From:

purpletigron.livejournal.com

More things about allotments in the Lea Valley:

http://www.england-in-particular.info/abc/ab-abc7.html

For enquiries about Manor Gardens Allotments or suggestions for the campaign to save the site from development, please contact Julie Sumner. (Aireyworld@aol.com).

http://www.england-in-particular.info/particular/e-case1-4.html

Common Ground’s Rules for Local Distinctiveness: Holding a torch for the allotments on Hackney Marshes by Juliette Adair

"Manor Gardens Allotments is a 1.8 hectare site on the east marshes of Hackney. It’s a wedge of land between the River Lea and Bully Point Nature Reserve – and right in the middle of the 2012 Olympic site. For 100 years this ground has been an allotment and was supposed to remain so in perpetuity. Now it has a compulsory purchase order on it and it will soon be bulldozed to make way for a concrete walkway. After the four week Olympic period, this will be broken up and the area made into a reed bed. This may satisfy some environmental concerns but the community - diverse and layered as it is - will be destroyed. Far from dancing in the streets, everyone is grieving."

From:

pfy.livejournal.com

I remember seeing advertisements and news articles everywhere urging me to send text messages and letters to tell the world 'Yes, I want the Olympics in London'.

There was not a corresponding option for 'Fuck off to France, Olympics'. Maybe I should have created one.

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