Greenwich Park confirmed as Olympic venue

Remiss of us not to mention this earlier, but following a lengthy public meeting yesterday, plans to use Greenwich Park to host the equestrian events for the London 2012 Olympic games, have been approved by Greenwich Council. It looks as though what we hoped would happen, will.

Blackheath Bugle has a very balanced summary of the issue. Intrepid blogger Adam Bienkov provided the most colourful live commentary via Twitter, including this gem:

@AdamBienkov We're now in the Tudor bricks, Roman graves, horses falling down holes, moonbat section of the presentation.