Unfinished business

Our previous two posts summarised the main issues we’re hoping the Council’s new project team will address, in the west and east of the park.

This post will wrap up our quick review with some of the more obvious elements where work needs to be done to address the post-Games condition of the park.

Elements which the Council is very aware of - but which we presume the new project team will now be expected to pick up - even remarkably simple tasks like removing a pile of fencing supports which were piled up but collapsed into the brook.

And elements like tackling whatever was meant to be happening with the so-called “northern plaza” to the reservoir side of the stadium - an area which was hyped up to provide spectacular views across the lake, and was meant to be beautifully landscaped, but as with so much, was essentially abandoned post-Games.

And, astonishingly, even the stadium itself has been left looking in places like an abandoned building site - hardly the flagship development that the Council was excited to promote for the two weeks of the Games.

And, of course, the hundreds of Heras fence panels that can be found all around the park - including some particularly bizarre stretches where the fence divides one section of the park which is accessible to the public with, well, another section of the park which is also accessible to the public.

Or even simply securing the site properly, and treating the integrity of the park and the stadium with the respect they are actually owed.

It’s clear that the new project team has inherited a huge job.

We look forward to seeing their plans, and wish them luck - they will need it!