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  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    You actually said, `There will be no permanent or temporary facility built in Hackney Marshes.'
  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Jenny Jones (AM): Well, that is not what local people think.
  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    `Temporary' is two years. You are moving that football club on, that's Sunday league, for two years.
  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Let us look at the cost, then. It is expensive to start taking green space and then reconstitute it. Why not just leave it and find another option?
  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [9]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    It has actually proven quite difficult for me to sit here and listen, and not stand up and shout, `rubbish,- because you are talking about environmental sustainability, you are talking about legacy in east London, and yet you are planning to tarmac over a piece of Hackney Marshes: East Marsh... You are ignoring the wishes of the local people, who have come up with several other options instead of tarmacking over a piece of green space. Why are you not consulting the local people? I can give you three suggestions. I have a map and can point to these places...
  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Why not save yourself the money of building a car park? Why not make that space beautiful without'?
  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [11]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Jenny Jones (AM): They know the area better than you, I would suggest.
  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [13]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    The first is that I am a great fan and supporter of the Olympic bid, as I hope you know, not least because it benefits my constituents enormously. One of the assurances that I think some people in east London, where there is some residual cynicism about the bid, would like is assurances about the ways in which you are going to link the bid into local contracting, local recruitment, training of local people, and relationships with local schools, so that it will be a bid that strengthens the area. There is a history of colonial intervention in east London...
  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [16]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    I know that quite a few detailed assurances and commitments have been made in this area already, but I think experience teaches us that you have to tell people again and again, and our job is to examine those proposals again. Are you happy after this meeting to make another written representation, to us, if you like, which could be used in communications in east London and which will clarify points about training; local contracts; the fact that you are going to get local firms, rather than Burger King or whoever, into the area; the fact that contractors will be...
  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [17]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Alright, coach park. Two years is temporary? You will be damaging wildlife; you will be cutting down trees. There is no protection for trees under the plan.