Sun 23rd Sep: Rally Against Olympic Evictions — on Allotment Demolition Day

Details of March & Ral­ly Against Olympic Evic­tions on Allot­ment Demo­li­tion Day — Sun­day 23rd Sept
Meet 2pm out­side Hack­ney Town Hall

The demo will be in sol­i­dar­i­ty with oth­er evict­ed groups such as Clays Lane Hous­ing Co-op who have already been evict­ed from their homes and traveller/Gypsy com­mu­ni­ties soon to be evict­ed. The demo in Hack­ney calls into ques­tion the exces­sive social, eco­nom­ic and envi­ron­men­tal costs of the Olympics as a cat­a­lyst for (de)regeneration.

Marsh Lane allotment protest flierMarsh Lane allotmentsDetails of March & Ral­ly Against Olympic Evic­tions on Allot­ment Demo­li­tion Day — Sun­day 23rd Sept
Meet 2pm out­side Hack­ney Town Hall

The demo will be in sol­i­dar­i­ty with oth­er evict­ed groups such as Clays Lane Hous­ing Co-op who have already been evict­ed from their homes and traveller/Gypsy com­mu­ni­ties soon to be evict­ed. The demo in Hack­ney calls into ques­tion the exces­sive social, eco­nom­ic and envi­ron­men­tal costs of the Olympics as a cat­a­lyst for (de)regeneration.

For a leaflet/flyer for this event, click onto the Lifeis­Land web­site:
http://www.lifeisland.org/

“Devel­op­ment” — at what cost?
Their con­sul­ta­tion = we know best

Plan­ning per­mis­sion for the Manor Gar­dens Allot­ments tem­po­rary relo­ca­tion site at Marsh Lane Fields in Waltham For­est was grant­ed on Tues­day June 12th 07. The Lon­don Devel­op­ment Agen­cy’s plan has always been to remove them to make way for a foot­path to the sta­dia need­ed for the four weeks of the Olympics.

Manor Gar­dens, bequeathed to be allot­ments ‘in per­pe­tu­ity’ by their orig­i­nal own­er the ‘Right Hon’ Major Vil­liers, sit in the North cen­tral sec­tion of the Olympic Park. The site has been ear­marked to be vacat­ed on Sun­day 23rd Sep­tem­ber.

How­ev­er, allot­ment hold­ers aren’t going out with a whim­per. Tomor­row, they are going to hold a march and ral­ly on Allot­ment Demo­li­tion Day. Allot­ment hold­ers, sup­port­ers and cam­paign­ers will be meet­ing at 2pm out­side Hack­ney Town Hall, march­ing to Hack­ney Wick Com­mu­ni­ty Asso­ci­a­tion Baths, 80 East­way, E9.