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Hackney Wick residents complain about noise and dust from the Olympic Park

Julian Cheyne — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:09:56 +0100

Residents in Hackney Wick have protested at the dust and noise being produced from the Olympic Park. The statement reproduced below was sent on Sunday 6th July to Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, David Higgins, Chief Executive of the ODA and Sebastian Coe, along with other relevant officials and representatives, by Sona Abantu-Choudhury on behalf of the Leabank Square Residents Association about the disturbance being caused by work on the Olympic site.

How British Waterways are destroying the annual natural spectacle of Bream spawning in the Old River Lea

Martin Slavin — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:33:06 +0100

Contaminated Dust at the Eastway, the HSE responds and the ODA upgrades its monitoring

Julian Cheyne — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:42:38 +0100

Further to my earlier article about contamination at the former Eastway cycle track the HSE responded after nine weeks (see email below). I remain astonished that it took nine weeks for the HSE to be able to summarise the monitoring being undertaken at the Eastway site. I would have thought the information would be readily to hand but apparently not.

The Olympics site is eating into east London's green spaces

Martin Slavin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:36:19 +0100

American landscape architects are promising east Londoners a park that will be "equivalent to Hyde Park" and "will give the area an equal weight to the west" (Olympics will leave east London an open space to rival Hyde Park, March 17). However, there are fundamental questions about the way the park and its surrounding developments are being planned that your article fails to address.

What's in the dust from the Eastway landfill?

Julian Cheyne — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:00:20 +0000

Essex too Flat for Olympic Mountain Bikers

Martin Slavin — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:52:26 +0000

Essex, highest point 147m, is not a county noted for its mountains. It was therefore perhaps no surprise that inspectors from the International Cycling Union deemed the county’s Weald Country Park just too flat to host the 2012 Olympic mountain bike competition. Any proposed course would not challenge the riders sufficiently, they said.

The Olympic ground beneath our feet

Julian Cheyne — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:22:41 +0000

Tunnel collapse site 2

Recent aerial photos of the Olympic site

Martin Slavin — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:02:24 +0000

Olympic Park Warehouse Fire: 12 Nov 2007 photo by Martin Slavin
Browsing the web recently for pictures of the Olympic site I came across these aerial views by Darren Lewis taken for the ODA by the look of it.

Not so cool for cats

Martin Slavin — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:34:49 +0000

. “Please do not believe Olympic Delivery Authority (O.D.A) claims that they are working closely with C.H.A.T and that they will notify C.H.A.T if kittens, lactating or pregnant cats are seen. They are reassuring the public by letter, email, telephone and in their own Newsletter (Issue 3, November 2007), that "The ODA is working closely with the Celia Hammond Trust to capture these cats and move them off the site and into new homes."

The Long Goodbye March to the 2012 Olympic Gates

Martin Slavin — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:16:00 +0100

Photos by: Sam Strickland