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Jolly entertaining blog old bean! Will read one again.

This is shameful. If these allotments were buildings there might be some chance of their being listed, but there is little protection for garden. And all just so we can watch a lot of people running in circles as fast as they possibly can.
Perhaps these allotments can be saved in the same way as the Camley Street nature reserve at Kings Cross, but the chances look slim.

Absolutely appalling.

Where I live, in suburban North London, I am fortunate enough for my house to back on to allotments, then the Northern Line, and finally a wild open space with a stream that becomes the River Brent running through it.

Urban at the front, the rear is a rural paradise, and because of the allotments, we have wonderful wildlife in our little garden. As I speak there's a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker and a Blue Tit on the bird feeder. Green and Gold Finches visit regularly. We have sleek foxes wandering through, not like the mangey urban variety you find further into town. There are also sometimes field mice in the garden.

In the summer crickets sing in the garden; admittedly they sometimes jump in through the windows which I don't like so much, and our autumn spiders are massive. But beautiful butterflies flutter by, and Grey Herons lazily flap over head.

Most of this is due to the proximity of the allotments, as are the blackberries that grow in profusion along the fence, and the lovely perenial flowers which have appeared of their own volition in my gardens.

To take away the little oasis in East London and replace it with a drab concrete footpath which could well become another no-go area for locals after the circus has left town is pure vandalism.

And I doubt there will be ASBOs for the vandals.

A great shame, an absolute disgrace.

Petition signed though I doubt it will do any good.

Glad to see my whinging to you about this paid off

Petition duly signed.

I'm sure that nobody in the Olympic team wants to erase these allotments, but alas they're in completely the wrong place to be able to survive.

I just hope that acceptable alternative arrangements are made for all the allotment holders, and soon.

Good point, DG. Almost everything we do impacts on others (evan a wank uses up water and bog roll). So, Authorities: give consideration to an elevated walkway, maybe above the river. Use the compo money for the extra cost of constuction, plus whatever money may have been set aside for artists to install sculptures along the walkway: you won't need them if there are some pretty allotments to look at. ANy security concerns could be fixed with a fence around the allotments, surely? Wouldn't it be cool if 2012 WAS the Green, (semi) sustanable Olympics!?

Well here in the states, the only interesting bits of property left around populated areas seem to only have survived because they're useless for anything else.

For instance right near where I live is a gorgeous 7 acre natural area... you'd think you were out in the country when you're down there. The only reason it's there is because it was a city dump in 1926 and beneath all those rolling hills and ponds are probably model A Fords.

Likewise, one of the only really pristine patches left of the mighty Columbia river is the Hanford Reach... a highly contaminated radioatictive area (only 10\\% contaminated actually).

And I might add the native american reservations remain blissfully undeveloped... aside from the casinos.

The hardest thing is to just leave nature alone it seems.

Like NiC, I've signed the petition but without any great hopes. This is a microcosm of what's happening to the entire planet. When the decision-makers finally get the message it will be too late.

Signed, but not resigned. What do you mean they're in entirely the wrong place? It's the new development that's in the wrong place! 'Circus' is right.

Appalling! Truly appalling! They should not be allowed to do this, to erase 100 years of history just for a footpath, turning a nice area of greenery into yet more concrete wasteland.











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