From my latest for Comment is Free:
At present there is much uncertainty. The Games website maps a future of sylvan "character areas" and murmurs seductively of wetland habitats, a "learning and innovation centre" and cutting-edge waste recycling plants in a spacious new urban park. There will be new housing and new shopping. From the grey ashes of a warren of grimy old industries will rise a green, pleasant and renewable East End. Locals, it appears, do not fully share this official confidence.
Now read on.
