Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Olympic update: Yesterday morning I lived 250 metres from the edge of London's Olympic Zone. This morning I live twice as far away. I haven't moved, but my corner of the Olympic site just shrunk. It's all part of the 2012 authority's revised plans to appease angry local businesses by not relocating quite so many of them. The Fish Island industrial area will no longer be completely obliterated to make way for a month-long temporary coach park. And the planned International Broadcast Centre will now be relocated closer to the Olympic Stadium, reprieving several acres of polluting incinerators, scrapyards and waste disposal units. See the new masterplan here. It's good news for 95 businesses and 1200 existing jobs, even if it does leave intact a big industrial eyesore down by the Bow Flyover. But I'm pleased, because this decision shifts the edge of the Olympic construction zone just that little bit further away from my house. I don't mind a slightly longer walk to the Olympics in 2012 if that means not having to look at a grim high-security building site every day for the next six years.
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