Sustainability
Canford Bottom 'lied to, ignored, humiliated, run over roughshod'
A local road improvement scheme at Wimborne in Dorset which was to have been delayed while an impact study was carried out following protests will now go ahead because the Government has belatedly admitted it is key to the Olympics Route Network.
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Sun, 21/08/2011 - 00:12.
Blog | 2012 Transport | Environment | Local groups | London 2012 | Planning & Development | Protest | Roads | Sustainability
#1yeartogo
Submitted by Steve Dowding on Wed, 27/07/2011 - 11:51.
Blog | 2012 Media | Human Rights | Mega Events | Sponsors | Sustainability
2012 Sponsorship: sustainable blood money
Rio Tinto Zinc is to sponsor the Australian 2012 Olympics team. The company described its values as 'accountability, respect, teamwork and integrity (which) are in tune with those of the Australian Olympic team.'
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Sun, 24/04/2011 - 02:20.
Blog | Corruption & Ethics | Environment | Health | Human Rights | London 2012 | Sponsors | Sustainability
Highway to Greed - Westfield's high-security Olympic rat-run
A heavily secured transit route, known as the 'Northern Retail Lifeline', is to be carved through the Olympic Park so that 4x4 drivers can be shepherded through to Westfield to do their Christmas shopping this year - while cyclists, pedestrians and public transport are banned from using the route. So much for the 'greenest Olympics ever'.
Submitted by Charles Batsworth on Mon, 28/02/2011 - 18:06.
Article | 2012 Construction | 2012 Sustainability | 2012 Transport | Cycling | Roads | Sustainability
Getting a leg(acy) up
by Stuart Fuller
Here is a little secret for West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur awaiting the decision on who will get the Olympic Stadium next week. Whisper it quietly, but football fans rarely want to watch football in an Olympic Stadium. Why do I say that? Well a simple look at similar structures around the world, built for non-football events reveals quite a bit. The prospect of an Olympic Games being awarded to a city sends them into construction meltdown, over promising and in most cases under delivering on the legacy of the games. The whole story of whether a stadium will have an athletics track or not is not a new thing. We all know that at the end of the day politics will win the day, and we have seen all sorts of stories in the past few weeks about who will do what when/if they win the bid.
Submitted by Steve Dowding on Tue, 25/01/2011 - 22:18.
Article | 2012 Bid | 2012 Sustainability | Corruption & Ethics | Displacement | Finance | Funding | Legacy | Mega Events | Newham | Regeneration | Sport | Sustainability
Oh no - it's not even the biggest new park in London in 20 years...
Following previous posts pointing out that the 2012 Olympic Park is not the claimed "largest new park in Europe in 150 years", there was some hurried hype revision and the ODA downgraded it to the "biggest park in the UK for 100 years" while other fellow traveller agencies drifted off message and settled for "biggest new park in London for 100 years" .
Submitted by Charles Batsworth on Thu, 30/12/2010 - 19:45.
Blog | 2012 Construction | 2012 Legacy | Attractions | Sustainability
Tugboat Annie
Spin is pernicious, like Japanese Knotweed from tiny fragments of root it keeps popping up everywhere.
Mark King, an innocent 'churnalist', writes a piece in The Guardian: A working life: the lock keeper
Submitted by Steve Dowding on Sun, 24/10/2010 - 11:24.
Blog | 2012 Legacy | 2012 Sustainability | Environment | Sustainability | Thames Gateway | Transport
Acceptance of Grant of Sports and Play Equipment [AdiZone] report to Greenwich Council
See attachment.
Clause 7.2 of especial interest in respect of legacy costs.
Submitted by Steve Dowding on Mon, 11/10/2010 - 11:01.
Document Archive | 2012 Sustainability | Legacy | London 2012 | Regeneration | Sport | Sustainability
Or maybe there's an extra swan in the CGI?
According to planningresource: ODA unveils plan for open spaces
Submitted by Steve Dowding on Tue, 24/08/2010 - 16:16.
Blog | 2012 Legacy | 2012 Sustainability | Bully Point Nature Reserve | Clays Lane | Displacement | Habitat and wildlife | Manor Gardens Allotments | People | Sustainability
2012 Game Makers – Disabled people need not apply
Amidst all of yesterday's 2-years-to-go hoohah, London2012.com launched their new MacJobs volunteering scheme. Blogger IanVisits was carping about the accessibilty failures in their new style-over-substance webpages.
Submitted by Steve Dowding on Wed, 28/07/2010 - 16:50.
Blog | 2012 Media | People | Sustainability