I just got in from a trundle around the Olympic Park. I still head up there quite a bit as Stratford still strikes me as one of those interesting, vibrant, dynamic corners of the metropolis worth keeping an eye on. However, I just feel I need to vent an issue which I think is rather sad. When the Olympic Park was first created, you’ll probably remember there being plenty of green space: large areas of grass surrounded the Olympic Stadium. It looked quite picturesque. Over the past fourteen years however, these areas have been built upon and used for housing: the fields are now blocks of flats. This seems like a great shame to me. I know that housing is at a premium in London, but do they have to sacrifice every patch of green space? That land was apparently always going to be developed and built upon, but even so, spaces which had given that lovely new park a peaceful, open and almost rural feel, now seem far more enclosed.