Manor Gardens Allotments
Feeding the Olympics
Originally posted Yule 2007
A new report 'Feeding the Olympics' from the Soil Association, Sustain and the New Economics Foundation, calls on London 2012 to deliver on their promise to be the greenest and healthiest Games in terms of the food they provide, and sets out how this can be done:
"This report is a call to action for everyone involved in catering for the London 2012 Olympic Games, to ensure that the food served before, during and after the Games is local, seasonal and organic as was promised in London’s bid
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Sat, 15/12/2007 - 14:18.
Article | 2012 Bid | 2012 Sustainability | Health | Legacy | Manor Gardens Allotments | Skills Training | Sustainability
The Deferential Olympics
One family seems to be doing nicely out of the Olympics. Mrs Windsor's nephew made a profit out of selling Jubilee and Olympics commemorative items at £3,900 a throw. Mrs Windsor herself was awarded an Honorary BAFTA and was ludicrously described as the 'most memorable Bond girl yet'. The Olympic Park is, of course, named after a famous ship, the QEII. A further example of this interminable sycophancy is the renaming of another local park, Marsh Lane Fields, where the Manor Gardens Allotments were forcibly relocated, the instantly forgettable Leyton Jubilee Park.
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Mon, 08/04/2013 - 16:56.
Problem with attrition? Try communities and engagement glue
More Olympic mumbo jumbo, this time about London 2012's recruitment legacy. Pats on the back for LOCOG’s head of recruitment, Paul Modley, for keeping his team of employees motivated, despite the fact that they knew their jobs would end when the Olympics finished. Huh? Is this a problem unique to the Olympics? Don’t lots of projects come to an end and everyone knows they’ll have to look for another job?
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Fri, 15/03/2013 - 01:20.
Blog | 2012 Jobs | Clays Lane | Displacement | London 2012 | Manor Gardens Allotments | Travellers
Less affordable housing on Olympic Park?
It seems 'affordable' housing on the Olympic Park has taken another hit. According to Greg Rosenberg, who was speaking at the East London Community Land Trust AGM, the present target of 35% is to be reduced to 28%. Greg was giving a lecture on CLTs, with particular reference to Troy Gardens, a project he was involved with in Madison, Wisconsin. This was mentioned when he and some others from the East London Community Land Trust had a meeting with the Mayor's London Legacy Development Corporation to discuss the possibility of a land trust at Chobham Manor, formerly known as Clays Lane.
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Sun, 02/09/2012 - 13:48.
Article | 2012 Legacy | Clays Lane | Housing | Manor Gardens Allotments | Planning & Development | Travellers
The real environmental impacts of holding the Olympics in East London
from Corporate Watch
Submitted by Steve Dowding on Mon, 06/08/2012 - 09:03.
Article | Contamination | 2012 Legacy | 2012 Sustainability | Bully Point Nature Reserve | Environment | Habitat and wildlife | Hackney Marsh User Group | Lammas Land | Manor Gardens Allotments | Transport | Travellers
Not the Manor Gardens Allotments
The Evening Standard's Homes&Property section featured an article 'This is the year of the Vegetable Olympics' on 11th January. Could this be a reference to the removed Manor Gardens Allotments or even to actual vegetable growers? No way! On the contrary, the long forgotten East End gardeners don't get a mention. Instead a brief pr splurge for the flower gardens, without vegetables, in the Olympic park and to chucking vegetables outside City Hall!
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Fri, 13/01/2012 - 02:42.
Manor Garden Allotments ODA picnic invite insult
Hitting a new low of poor taste in PR, plotholders evicted from the historic Manor Garden Allotments received an invitation from the Olympic Delivery Authority to see the 'progress' on the Olympic landscaping for which the ODA demolished their gardens three years ago. The photo on the invite is taken from a spot near the middle of the old allotment site, which stretched down to the bridge embankment in the upper left.
Submitted by Charles Batsworth on Fri, 17/06/2011 - 07:55.
Article | 2012 Sustainability | Habitat and wildlife | Manor Gardens Allotments
The Inspector's report into the 2012 Olympics Compulsory Purchase Order
The Inspector for the Inquiry into the 2012 Olympics Compulsory Purchase Order only produced an advisory report. The final decision was left to the Minister for Communities, then Alastair Darling, who ignored the Inspector's recommendations regarding the Travellers. There was never the remotest chance that the Inspector would not recommend acceptance and even less that Mr Darling would not grant the order. The whole process was a sham.
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Sun, 19/09/2010 - 13:37.
CPO London 2012 | Document Archive | Clays Lane | Compulsory Purchase | Displacement | Manor Gardens Allotments | Planning & Development | Regeneration | Travellers
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