2012 Velopark

Looks like the 2012 indoor cycling track is starting to take shape

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I get a blank image!

I remember when it was all toxic waste dump round there, look what they've done to it!

Winston - you remeber when there used to be wolly mammoths roaming around there…

what you want is this

it's between stratford and leyton

That has to be the most useless user unfriendly site I have ever seen. Did they even test it in FireFox I wonder

LOL

It's just as bad in Safari... loads and loads... then shows nothing...

that's funny,it worked when I first found it..now it's as abominable as the logo

I wonder if it'll be ready for winter? :-)

Thats no more than a five minute ride from my house, I wouldnt even need to touch a road to get there! Bit easier than getting to HH.

You won't get to ride it till after the games...

First event on it will be just before the games and will be a World Cup type event. This is used as a test so that UCI can sign it off.

Only riders who will get on there for training with be the GB Squad.

It'll be about a month or so after the games before anyone else gets a look in.

It'll be about a month or so after the games before anyone else gets a look in.

It'll be a Tesco by then.

video here:
http://www.london2012.com/blog/2009/08/12/track-rider-to-track-maker.php

well.. I suppose they have three years to finish it.

looking good! I reckon they wanted the roof on by this winter

I was chatting to some planning bod the other day who reckons that they have only got the planning for the whole Olympic park, based on an agreement to turn it into low cost housing immediately after the games, i.e. pull the lot down. :-(

That sounds like bullshit to me. The Velopark would have been built regardless of the outcome of London's bid for the 2012 games and BC intend to use it as a major training site post 2012. It's here to stay.

Apparently the whole housing complex is to be run by Tesco, with a Tesco School, College, Mini hospital, the works. I live next door to the stadium and I've been on a couple of tours of the site, and they are very cagey about specifics when asked!

But BC have said many times that they are not moving from Manchester.

The dude I spoke to knows his stuff, and doesn't really understand humour, so I am inclined to believe it.

What a horrible state of affairs. As far as I can see it's not the public-spirited exercise that it should be, not from any angle.

I'd imagine that this would certainly apply to the venues for which no legacy use has been identified.

There are housing requirements/targets for the Olympic Park, but it is unclear whether they're even going to be delivered, given the downturn in house-building. The situation may change by 2012, of course.

There is no question that a sterilised planning zone with so many question marks over it will be a goldmine for some people.

The legacy planning will be handled by the Olympic Park Legacy Company, which has Urban Development Corporation status.

http://www.olympicparklegacycompany.co.uk/

Unfortunately, it doesn't look as if planning control will be handed back to the local authorities, who would be more accountable, for the foreseeable future. There are arguments in favour of UDCs and plenty against.

What is certainly true is that few people have any clear idea what's going to happen. It's definitely worth watching.

I love your planning goss Ol.

To what extent were compulsory purchases used to secure the land?

Had to Google for that one:

http://www.lda.gov.uk/server.php?show=nav.00100h003001002

The land bank for Stratford City was assembled by private developers and the LDA negotiated buy-out packages with most (I don't think all, but I'm not sure) of the businesses located within the zone. I don't think CPOs were used for any of that; from memory, the businesses hired good lawyers who defended their interests. I followed the transport picture more closely.