2012 Olympics in Waltham Forest: the Dispersal Order

Looking back at the past, an occasional series. Part two: ‘Our Olympics – “Chariots of Ire”‘

July 29, 2022 2012 Olympics in Waltham Forest, 2012 Olympics in Waltham Forest: Leyton Market, 2012 Olympics in Waltham Forest: the Dispersal Order, National Construction College Cathall Rd.

Purely for amusement, and to compliment all the remeniscing prompted by the 2012 anniversary, here’s a post that first appeared on this blog in 2015, one of a series on ‘Our Olympics’ (see links for the others). Who can forget the sight of no less a figure than LBWF CEO Martin Esom scurrying round the borough’s public libraries to collect in as many copies of the council’s Olympic guide to Leyton as he could, lest he and his chums be blamed for the evolving fiasco that was the Leyton Market? A ‘Gold medal for ineptitude’, indeed. ‘Our Olympics’: (1) LB... »

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‘Our Olympics’: (3) The Cann Hall – Cathall – Leytonstone – Wanstead 2012 Dispersal Order (DO)

April 14, 2015 2012 Olympics in Waltham Forest: the Dispersal Order

The final piece in this Olympics trilogy is about policing. It’s my experience that the police in Waltham Forest for the most part escape serious scrutiny, and for that reason I’ll be looking at their functioning and performance in some detail over the coming months. To start the ball rolling, here is a piece I wrote in December 2012 about the Dispersal Order that was imposed on South Leytonstone and environs during the Olympics. At the time, I was secretary of the A Better Way Partnership Board, the formal community partner in LBWF’s Gang Prevention Programme, so I had a rin... »

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