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You are here: Greenwich / Daily Photo / Daily Photo: 08/10/10 – Scarification

Daily Photo: 08/10/10 – Scarification

October 8, 2010 By Rob Powell

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A photo showing the scarification work being undertaken in Greenwich Park for the London 2012 cross country event.  Read about "acid grass" here and here on the Greenwich Phantom's blog and on the Greenwich.co.uk forum.

There's more photos in the "Greenwich _Park" photostream on Flickr.com

Filed Under: Daily Photo Tagged With: Greenwich Park

Comments

  1. Indigo says

    October 8, 2010 at 4:27 pm

    Ok, folks, what do you think are the chances of that sapling still being there in 2013? Zip, I should imagine, The Royal Parks’ assurance notwithstanding (that no trees will be felled as part of the x-country course preparation). LOCOG vandals.

  2. Kate says

    October 9, 2010 at 8:17 am

    Scarification is exactly the right word…

  3. Indigo says

    October 9, 2010 at 9:18 am

    The amenity societies are very quiet. Let’s hear from you – Greenwich Society, Blackheath Society, Westcombe Society, “Friends” of Greenwich Park – you are on LOCOG’s advisory group, you have given your blessing to LOCOG starting the cross-country course preparation before discharging the whole of planning condition 1. This appalling damage is happening because you let it.

    The company in charge of preparing the course is the Sports Turf Institute

    http://www.stri.co.uk

    – that’s right, SPORTS TURF, whose professional skills and expertise are all in preparing and managing golf links. Not fragile, unique, bio-diverse, World Heritage Sites. I can easily imagine that Lee Penrose (STRI)

    http://www.stri.co.uk/en/about-stri/stri-staff/ecology/lee-penrose/

    just told the workmen to keep “scarifying” until there was nothing left. Indeed, it occurs to me to ask: do these workmen with their rakes have any relevant park management qualifications at all, or did LOCOG/STRI bring in some people from the local Job Centre.

Trackbacks

  1. Greenwich Council and London 2012: The end of the affair « 853 says:
    October 15, 2010 at 1:19 pm

    […] LOCOG in the first place, we perhaps wouldn’t be in the situation we’re in now, with people worrying about works in Greenwich Park taking place with little explanation of what’s going on, fuelling rumours of permanent […]

  2. BBC London in Greenwich Park: Fair or biased? « 853 says:
    October 27, 2010 at 2:18 pm

    […] was the wrong idea, and that it would have been better to have had a proper report into this now the park’s undergoing the “scarification” treatment which has got many people worried, and with concerns about road closures remaining […]

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