Olympic Park 2012

With the introduction of ‘Localism’ there may be further changes to the governance of this Olympic Park site. After games time it could be that a ‘Mayoral Development Corporation’ would become responsible for the rates and development permissions in the area. The UK’s professional planning institution the RTPI was focusing on the park recently with an event in Stratford and one of the presentations suggested this may well happen. Dawn Hawthorn from the GLA talked about the next steps and the changes in terms of planning processes if this was to happen.

I have borrowed this image from the RTPI’s own London Calling blog.  Quite an interesting site in itself, to keep an eye on for changes and challenges about development and related social issues in London.

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From 9th-26th Sept tickets for the 2012 Paralympics will be on sale from the official ticketing website for the London 2012 games. Most cost under 50 GBP and give a full days worth of access, great value but likely to be oversubscribed. According to the BBC they are limited to UK & EU residents and oversubscribed tickts will be balloted the same way that the Olympic event ticket were.

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This story from Inhabitat i-zin describes an urban initiative for “2,012 Public Growing Spaces For London by Next Year With Capital Growth Scheme”.

http://m.inhabitat.com/capital-growth-scheme-creates-2012-public-gardens-by-2012-for-london/

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