TACKLING SUSTAINABILITY

At a formal dinner held in the Tower of London this week to mark the second visit of the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission for the 2012 Games to London, Sally Hamwee took the opportunity to talk to the Chair of the independent Commission overseeing the sustainability of the Games, and to bring him into a discussion with the London Development Agency about the problems faced by plot holders at Manor Garden Allotments who are facing relocation from the site of the Olympic Park.
After the event, Sally said "The Chair of the Assembly is often invited to events like this, and the trick is to make sure that you use such occasions to talk to senior officials the real issues that Londoners are concerned about. I told them that I guessed that the allotment holders must have felt as if they were under the wheels of a juggernaut" The LDA announced on Thursday that they had reached agreement with the Manor Garden Allotment plot holders to enable them to return to their plots after 2012, and in the meantime to move to a temporary site in Waltham Forest, having arranged suitable compensation and support