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Welcome to NOGOE's website!

NOGOE is a community action group which was formed in order to campaign to get the 2012 Olympic equestrian events moved from Greenwich Park to a more suitable location. Hopes of getting the events moved are fading, so NOGOE is evolving into a monitoring group which will provide a record and running commentary on the disruption to normal Park life. We will seek to hold the organisers, LOCOG, to their promise to reinstate the Park after the Games, and we will work to ensure that the Park cannot be misused or abused in future.

Read more about us and our campaign.
Read about what you can do to help us and about how you can get involved.

Horse chestnut leaves on the Avenue

Campaign news

The latest photos of and comment on what is happening in the Park can be seen in our photo diary. The latest stories on our campaign news page are:

5 April	Works in the Park: LOCOG's helpline number
5 April	Phase 2 has begun
30 March	Cable camera given planning permission
19 March	No hosepipe ban for the equestrian events
13 March	Surface-to-air missiles on Blackheath?
13 March	LOCOG's 2012 tree-pruning campaign
9 March	Greenwich Council gets tough with LOCOG?

The Queen's Lawn is closed for a year
(LOCOG's occupation will have to be followed by substantial restoration)

The shape of things to come

LOCOG's occupation of the Park will reach its climax during Phase 7, which lasts from 23 July to 3 August. As LOCOG's planning drawing shows, they will be occupying almost all of the Park; which will be closed entirely on cross-country day. LOCOG will also be occupying Circus Field and nearly all of the National Maritime Museum. The drawing does not show that they will also be using the Old Royal Naval College and much of Blackheath as spectator-holding areas, nor does it show that Greenwich town centre will be swamped by tens of thousands of spectators moving between the Old Naval College and Greenwich Station. Then there are the traffic problems (especially the congestion caused by the Olympic Route Network) and the security problems (Royal Navy warships will be anchored at Deptford, the RAF will be on standby, special services and special police teams will be operating, the Park will be patrolled by private security guards and will be surrounded by security fencing, floodlights and CCTV cameras). And all of this is being done in order to stage a cross-country event that could and should have been held in the countryside. Take a bad idea, push it to its mad conclusion, and you have Phase 7 (and phases 5 and 6 and 8 and 9 ...).

LOCOG's drawing of Phase 7 of their Occupation