Comments on: Andrew Gilligan: Locog Admits Windsor Is a Better Venue

By: Indigo

Indigo — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:07:45 +0000

Does anyone know if foxes were being culled on any night in August 2009? By being shot? Thanks.

By: LOCOG: Greenwich Park “most suitable and cost effective venue for the Equestrian Events” | Greenwich.co.uk

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:28:39 +0000

[...] last week’s column by Andrew Gilligan (”Locog admits Windsor is a better venue“), London 2012 organisers have asked us to publish their [...]

By: Rod

Rod — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:07:58 +0000

“I disagree with you. It is so good for Greenwich that the Olympics are coming to Greenwich, it will be great fun, a once in a lifetime opputunity”

We see again and again that the Pro Olympic lobby actually have no arguments to set aginst the facts. They just keep chanting “It will be good for Greenwich” like Hari Khrishna zombies, in the belief that if the mantra is repeated often enough it will come to be believed………

By: Fat Cat

Fat Cat — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:50:44 +0000

It will be a once in a lifetime opportunity for some top end anti olympic guerrilla advertising from Fat Cat Towers which directly overlooks the park.

By: Indigo

Indigo — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:32:19 +0000

The Committee of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society (LAMAS) is going to have to work much, much harder not to appear lazy, incompetent, ignorant and stupid.

At their meeting on 17 December 2009, on behalf of the Council for British Archaeology in respect of Listed Buildings and Applications, the Committee “deliberated long and hard on” and raised “strong objections” to a planning application (HGY/2009/2000) to build a new football stadium in Haringey – but merely “discussed the case” (09/2598/F and 09/2599/L) of Greenwich Park and the 2012 Olympics, prompted by a letter signed by Neil Smith of LOCOG, and decided that there were “no major objections”.

This is an outrageous dereliction of duty on the part of LAMAS.

Greenwich is a World Heritage Site; it has global significance, historically and culturally. Haringey isn’t and doesn’t. There is no indication that LAMAS looked at even one page of the LOCOG planning applications.

LAMAS appears to have taken down their web site, so one cannot check to see if any of their Committee is associated with either Lord Coe, the BEF, Rockpool, Coca Cola, etc etc. And one cannot easily find out what their constitution is and hold them to it.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:43:19 +0000

Fat Cat, it’s a once in a lifetime event for GREENWICH.

By: Fat Cat

Fat Cat — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:46:31 +0000

Steve. Its not really a one in a lifetime event though. You could go to Badminton< Burley etc and see top class 3 day eventing on a proper course every single year. The % of locals attending the Eventing in the park will be tiny. The tickets will be sold to fans who follow 3 day eventing. LOCOG are just a typical state eneterprise. They spend OTHER PEOPLES’ MONEY with zero over sight or thought for tax payers.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:17:25 +0000

Yes have a read Steve!

By: Indigo

Indigo — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:40:17 +0000

J J, if you can’t send your objection in via the Greenwich Council web site, then I suggest visit the NOGOE web site http://www.nogoe2012.com and follow the advice there on how to submit your objection.

To Steve: please read the planning application documents.

By: J J

J J — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:12:22 +0000

Have you got a link that I can use to object to the Olympics in Greenwich Park.