Manor Gardens Allotments vs. Olympics 2012

[taceworldwide]

how about let them do their sports for a while then theyle give the land back. iv gone to hear from the managers themselves. its your land so theyre gna have to fund some kind of movement plan. x

[Leighsharpe]

Many of my relatives had allotments here, now they have been moved on or retired due to old age and hassle of relocating many times due to the Phoney Olympics!

I spent my childhood summer time down here with many happy moments, wondering around and being fasinated with the local wildlife and learning the art of growing food!

The good news though is all this exposure has rubbed off on me and now I have my own two allotments for the last two years, I have some vids on my channel.....

[FreedomFighterUK]

The olympics is costing £40 BILLION. The country is fucking bankrupt and the suits in power are using £40 BILLION of our money, for what? Fuck the olympics, spend that 40 bill on the NHS or education you good-for-nothing cunts.

[MyPoetryandPictures]

It is shocking if they bulldoze this lovely allotment site. It should be incorporated as part of the design. I know if my allotment was taken off me I would be absolutely devastated because it's such a big part of my life.The men in suits need to spend a day or two down the allotments to realise how much it means to how many.

[miliziametallica]

Im from Turin, olympic city in the 2006. The olympic game is only a lobby affair of sponsors and constructor. The city lost only money, then the buildings remain inutilized.

Fight for your zone

[mal344]

Return the stolen marbles of Parthenon. Prove you respect history!

[kokonutbaby1]

I think its a shame on the developers and city to take away what people have had so long and worked so hard for...that is how it will be all over soon i think...gov't will own everything and we will be the slaves to it. Those gardens are beautiful.

[mrplasma375]

Empire01233,if you had an allotment you may understand.

[bittenof]

sorry dont understand as i didnt mention allotments but no doubt they took someones allotments and didnt replace them

[welshmoron]

It was with sadness that I watched the programme on these lovely allotments and their destruction by the L.D.A. They should have been preserved for the people who have looked after them for so many years, and it was lovely to see a part of London that reminded one of the old days. Surely they could have built the olympic site around this beautiful spot and left it for the many people who obviously love it.

[blumetatron]

We have allotments near us, and they look like a dirty shanty town on the outskirts of town. All you can see is homemade lock-ups and plastic sheeting, it reminds me of my time in south america

[Sebtastical]

urgh 2012 was a mistake (lol) 2016 would have been saner, and perhaps with more time for planning, they wouldn't have had to get rid of one of the best parts of London... something thats almost unique - and so pretty looking - is going to removed, and flattened :(

And not only the allotments, but almost the entire site looks like one of the last scraps of green land in London, demolish in the other direction? :( i thought we were supposed to be green!

[brokenbriton]

Disgrace. All because they want a few vastly overpaid athletes to run jump and skip around a track....

Care for the environment...

[slightlymooshed]

I hope every thing has turned out ok for you guys? My heart goes out to you all.

[PostModernKarma]

DIG FOR VICTORY!

[englander1971]

get over it just stinking allotments

[ShckJok]

What exactly are these allotments? are they the fields that serfs would have tilled or are they the lands of a Manor Lord

[spidrawebster]

Any architects and designers worth their salt would have incorporated the allotments into their plan in a way that showcases them instead of bulldozes them.

[bazil2007]

this should be on the news

[meldeak]

sickening how things can just be swept away on the whim of poeple we give power to.  All allotment society members need to uproot from their own plots mentally and think about Manor Gardens.

[nico2lette]

why cant they build a suspension bridge then the appoline freaks can walk over the top and look down on real england not some hyped up I can run faster than you and cost a lot as well propaganda.

[KurtZarniko]

I think they can make it like the Eden Project with temporary glass dome over beautiful examples of world class olympic fruit.

[discocircus]

This makes me so angry. I hope the allotments are saved.

[xchazniez]

Is there any way we can support your cause, I would be willing to sign a petition or something. I think it is disgusting that they can even think of wiping you out. All the hours spent at universtiy etc and the planners cannot even come up with a way of keeping a piece of England right in the heart of the biggest project London has seen since the Dome (another planning failure). I am all for the Olympics but come on planners think outside the box, you may even go down in history for it!

[lifeisland]

You might be interested in checking out the campaign website, the url is in the video note.

[zigvog]

That's a really, very positive and practical suggestion, made by xchazniez, to encourage the planners to try to incorporate the gardens into the preparations for the Olympics, not take the negative path of doing away with them.

[tuinal]

Only in England bureaucrats are allowed to abuse power on this scale. I think that there is a hidden agenda in British politics, of destroying any posiblility of community spirit and solidarity between people. Make it a nationwide compaing. Imaginative plannig is essential! In solidarity Saffron Walden allotments holders.

[ShckJok]

Yeah only in England my arse, get some global perspective. Have they been killed and had their lands stolen from them? Have they enslaved these people? Have they begun an extermination program? I think not

[splotsplat]

stick in there, victory to the underdog ! I am with you all the way.

[socpa]

Remember how worried they looked when people stood firm at Oxleas Wood, or when the M11 Link Road campaign cost them over 26million, or when the 'Millennium Timebombers' occupied that crane at the dome? Non-violent direct action is a powerful thing.

"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. It is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

[socpa]

There's room for sensitively dug tunnels under them there plots, room for sensitively built tree-houses in them there trees, lock-on barrels next to every shed, and a phone-tree posted on everyone's kitchen wall.

[socpa]

The last thing our cash-strapped drowning-in-paperwork cops need right now is a sustained campaign of direct action. The last thing the Olympics organisers need is an army of committed activists screwing up their work sites and time-tables.

[fugueur]

there's no argument for concreting over these allotments and in the process of re-allocating them destroying a piece of ancient common land. So much for a 'green Olympics'.

[ziggy36]

Damn the Olympics! You can't trust any council,or political figure,to lose this for the sake of a stupid path. I thought our wonderful leaders were pushing for health foods and staying fitter? You would never know by this would you?  I have a plot and I feel for these people.