Seventy people took to Leyton Marshes to protest the local planning application to dig up the protected land to make way for more carparks and buildings for the Olympics, taking away public space, and destroy the marsh habitat. The crowd put up signs on the fence that surrounds the proposed site near Lee Bridge Road. The 'Olympic Delivery Authorities' have won the right to build a hall on the site and adjasent car parks even although 1,250 local people have signed a petition to stop the proposals.

“Even if the building itself goes, the land will no longer be green belt and therefore cannot be protected from development,” said Caroline Day from the Save Leyton Marsh Group, which is campaigning to save the site.

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