Abstract
The casualties are mounting up in the heart of the legacy labyrinth. Margaret Ford has gone. Andrew Altman followed not long after. The stadium process has become a farce. Like Tom Russell before them, Margaret Ford and Andrew Altman have paid the price for not delivering on a legacy use for the Olympic stadium. Worse than this, the story of the failure to find a tenant for the stadium has become, in this last year, an embarrassment—an interminable saga worthy of the worst television soap operas.
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Appendix 1 Economy Culture and Sport Committee 8 November 2011 Transcript of Item 5. http://www.london.gov.uk/moderngov/documents/s6202/Olympic%20Stadium%20Legacy.pdf. Accessed 5 May 2015.
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Annual Report and Accounts 2011–2012 Olympic Park Legacy Company. http://queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk/~/media/lldc/accounts/oplc_annual_report_2012_260712.pdf Accessed 5 May 2015.
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Legacy Communities Scheme http://queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk/our-story/transforming-east-london/legacy-communities-scheme Accessed 5 May 2015.
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Convergence Framework and Action Plan 2011–2015 https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Convergence%20action%20plan%202011-2015.pdf Accessed 5 May 2015
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The Lower Lea Valley Opportunity Area Planning Framework http://legacy.london.gov.uk/mayor/planning/docs/lowerleavalley-pt1.pdf Accessed 2 May 2015.
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Annual Report and Accounts 2011–2012 Olympic Park Legacy Company. http://queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk/~/media/lldc/accounts/oplc_annual_report_2012_260712.pdf. Accessed 5 May 2015.
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Evans, G. (2016). An Interminable Saga. In: London's Olympic Legacy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-29073-1_8
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