Recent content by Rachel Mawhood

I realise that it is not comfortable for you to acknowledge this but Greenwich Royal Park is a fragile, biodiverse Grade I Listed Baroque English landscape containing rare habitats and internationally protected species. Not a field of clay. If the Olympics equestrian venue had been...

It was I who blew the whistle on LOCOG's plans to steal mains water and electricity. I think that that was constructive for the community I care about.

Er, if you spend £140 million on a penthouse at One Hyde Park, you actually own a £140 million penthouse. Not only the memory and pictures of a £140 million penthouse. Wouldn't you like to take this up with the BEF? To find out why they misled everyone? I'll come back later with...

Do you read anything but Horse & Hound? The Olympics have been an absolute disaster for the local economy and business - takings down 50%-70% - and some will not survive because it happened during what is usually the height of the tourist season. The Old Royal Observatory's loss of visitor...

This is stating the obvious but ... you and the others who dismiss what I say have just illustrated why the master race within the UK equestrian world get away with squandering your money and resources. Next time the master race want to appropriate a piece of land for their personal glory, it...

To obtain permission for planning permission to build something equestrian on Metropolitan Open Land at the Shooter's Hill, LOCOG and the Council lied, claiming that there were no other riding schools in Greenwich. The fact is that there are already three riding schools in Greenwich.

First time I have been on this forum since early January. I see that the standard of the debate on this subject is much the same as it was then. I am looking at the bigger picture - the one in which UK equestrianism threw away a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have its national facilities...

Read my lips: £120 million of taxpayers' money. Someone in Government must have been signing off bought invoices like there was no tomorrow. Greenwich Park is a brilliant public park (open every day of the year since 1820 until your lot took it over totalitarian-fashion for the Olympics) and...

You are not really paying attention: what proportion of £120 million is the amount you paid for your tickets? (More about the source of the figures eventually.)

Define disaster. Three times the budget sounds like a disaster to me. The attempt to steal electricity would likely have been a disaster, if they had not been found out. Catastrophic dereliction of duty by all the statutory authorities is a disaster for democracy and the rule of law...

In the current issue of H&H, it is suggested that critics of using Greenwich Park as the Olympics venue were won round or "disappeared". They haven't disappeared; rather, their reasoned voices have been drowned out by the white noise of propaganda and hype. Consider this: 7 years ago, the...

Thomas Cook is only a Tier Two sponsor, which starts at £20 million. Lloyds TSB sponsorship is £80 million which, coincidentally, is the same as the amount by which the taxpayer bailed them out. So I think the Lloyds TSB sponsorship is really being paid for by us.

You haven't read the Transport for London reports on the impact on London's transport system? You haven't heard how LOCOG wants working people in London to work from home (how does a doctor work from home?) You haven't seen the crowd-modelling results. You haven't heard anything about the...

You. Have. No. Idea. Greenwich is nothing but small businesses. Now those living near the Park have been told that during the Olympics they cannot take deliveries during daylight hours but either hold a lot of stock (they can't, they have tiny premises) or receive deliveries during the night...

Bury Farm is 300 acres. Greenwich Park is 183 acres in total: the space available to use for the 2012 equestrian events is much, much less. Probably less than 150 acres. If, as you assert, "there is no way [Bury Farm] could cope with the Olympics", why on earth do you - or anyone - think...