The row over the costs of staging the Olympic Games in London in 2012 continues to rage. Discussions have now moved out of the press pages and into the courts.
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has issued drawings of three major planning applications for sport, leisure and entertainment venues and the Olympic village in the Lower Lea Valley, which runs from Stratford to Canary Wharf. The 246-hectare application will include plans for highways, bridges and river works. Now lawyers for two groups of Travellers are going to the Royal Courts of Justice citing human rights legislation to challenge plans to relocate them to make way for the Olympic Village. The London Development Authority (LDA) wants Travellers in Newham to move to a nearby park. ...
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