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LDA gets go-ahead for new Manor Gardens allotment site
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Manor Gardens Society will be able to keep their community together during the construction of the Olympic Park after Waltham Forest Council resolved to give the London Development Agency (LDA) planning permission to build a temporary site.
The Society backed that application and today withdrew their legal challenge against the Olympic CPO.
The LDA will take control of the allotments on July 2 as planned, but has agreed allow a limited number of plot holders supervised access to their current site for a few days a week until September – the end of the growing season.
Once the new site in Marsh Lane is ready the Society will move until the Games have finished when the LDA will help them move to a new site within a landscaped Olympic Park.
Their current site is fundamental to the Olympic Park designs housing both the main concourse for spectators, and a flood management area both for the Games and in the longer term.
Gareth Blacker, Director of developments – Olympics, said: "We are delighted that Waltham Forest Council resolved to give us planning permission for a new temporary allotment site for Manor Gardens Society. We will be taking ownership of the allotment site on July 2 as scheduled in the Olympic programme.
“As part of our continued support, a limited amount of plot holders will be allowed supervised access to their current site for a few days a week until September. After the Games we will be reproviding a larger allotment site on a landscaped Olympic Park."
The LDA has been working with the allotment holders for two years to identify and secure a site.
Other forms of LDA support include £850 disturbance compensation for each allotment holder, new shed and moving existing greenhouses to the new site.
A previous extension for all of the allotment holders to stay on site past an original April deadline was also secured by the LDA after Waltham Forest turned down the first planning application for a temporary site in February.
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