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Put out more (Olympic) flags
Article | Beijing 2008 | Human Rights
.: The Olympic flame passes brightly through somewhere in the the Uyghur Autonomous Province !
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Tue, 17/06/2008 - 08:06.
How British Waterways are destroying the annual natural spectacle of Bream spawning in the Old River Lea
Article | 2012 Legacy | Habitat and wildlife | Sustainability
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Sun, 25/05/2008 - 20:33.
LDA keeps its word! Open space at Eastway to close.
Article | Planning & Development
The LDA acknowledged there would be a loss of open space during the construction of the Olympic Park. I received the following information after several enquiries.
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Thu, 09/11/2006 - 01:57.
Retail therapy
Remarkably, refutation of the inevitable benefits of hosting the Games is considered within the Olympic planning documents (Retail, Leisure and Sport Impact Assessment Appendices, Appendix 4 to the Environmental Statement, January 2004) as part of an attempt to calculate the amount and type of retail floor space that the Games could support. The Atlanta Games of 1996 was a retail disaster.
Submitted by Carolyn Smith on Sat, 04/11/2006 - 14:15.
Cash crisis looms
The £550 million funding for the London Olympics will initially come from London council tax payers, £1.5 billion from the National Lottery, followed by a further £75 million from council tax, and £250 million from the London Development Authority (LDA). The International Olympic Committee (IOC) insists that host cities underwrite all liabilities. £15 million was spent on the London bid alone (Blowe, 2004; 2005).
Submitted by Carolyn Smith on Fri, 03/11/2006 - 19:52.
Rising East Online September 2006 edition
Article | Planning & Development | Politics
Links to four articles in Rising East Online worth looking at
Regeneration Without End: Urban and Social Change in the East of London since the 1890s —William Mann;
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Mon, 16/10/2006 - 13:04.
REAPing the Olympic park!
Article | Environment | Funding | Hackney | Legacy | Sustainability
After writing about the new and reduced park I found myself involved in an email discussion about replacement funding. At the risk of repeating myself I thought part of it deserved a little airing. Below is part of an email from a Hackney Councillor, Christine Boyd, in response to a discusion about REAP funding which was meant to compensate local communities, notably at Hackney Wick, for loss of open space.
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Fri, 05/12/2008 - 00:28.
The Olympic Park: the seven and a half hectares legacy
Article | Environment | Legacy | Sustainability
In his evidence on the Olympic Legacy to the 2006 Compulsory Purchase Inquiry, Lord Sir Sebastian Coe stated that it was impossible to know what the economic situation would be in 2012. Objectors did point out that this suggested some uncertainty as to what would happen at the end of the Olympics. Despite this he and others were sure in their prediction of Legacy benefits. Now that Coe’s worst case scenario has crunched, Tessa Jowell has said if they’d known this was going to happen the Government wouldn’t have put in a bid. But then she thought better of it and decided that, after all, the Olympics is a key part of their anti-crunch strategy.
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 23:41.
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