The Future
The first stage in preparing the area for use as the 2012 Olympic Park will be the removal of the pylons that run from here to Canning Town and the horse brigade tower located south east. Due to its proximity to the Olympic Park, Hackney Wick is receiving (2006, onwards) community and public realm development grants. The Draft Phase 1 Hackney Wick Area Action Plan was developed for consultation in November 2009 by Hackney Council as a strategy to guide and manage future change in the area. This should further contribute to improvements in the area, although there are fears that development may price many residents, particularly artists, out of the area.
Conversely, concerns have been raised over some of the local effects of the Olympic Park development, including the potential impact to the future of the century-old Manor Garden Allotments, which has inspired a vocal community campaign.
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