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| Link to The Guardian |
"It's ironic that the Earls Court exhibition centre,
presently hosting Olympics volleyball, is lined up for bulldozing after
the Games. Opened in 1937 and a premier London venue for the events
industry ever since, it is earmarked for levelling directly after
helping accommodate the largest event London has ever hosted. Sounds
odd? A bit of background sheds some light.
"The planned destruction of Earls Court is – as regular readers of this blog know – part of a larger redevelopment scheme
proposed for that part of inner west London. This would also reduce to
dust the 760 homes of the West Kensington and Gibbs Green housing
estates.
"The Conservative-run boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea
(K&C) and Hammersmith and Fulham (H&F) envisage a regenerative
new 'urban quarter' full of luxury flats and, they say, new local job
opportunities rising from the rubble, but they've been meeting some
determined opposition."
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