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Now on BBC One, it's time
for the news where you are. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:01 | |
Good evening from BBC London News. | 0:00:13 | 0:00:18 | |
"A catalogue of disasters" -
the damning verdict of a report | 0:00:18 | 0:00:20 | |
into the refurbishment
of the Olympic Stadium, | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
now the home of West Ham. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:27 | |
The initial build for the Games cost
around £400 million. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
Then there was the additional 323
million to convert it into a stadium | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
suitable for football. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
Now, it's been revealed
that the taxpayer could continue | 0:00:36 | 0:00:38 | |
to lose up to £20 million a year. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:40 | |
Our political editor,
Tim Donovan, reports. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:44 | |
It was the centrepiece
of a successful sporting event, | 0:00:44 | 0:00:48 | |
with high drama on the track and,
at the time, few problems off it. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
Today, five years on,
it is being used by a Premier | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
League football club. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
A sporting legacy ensured. | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
But the lucky tenants, West Ham,
don't own the stadium. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:03 | |
It was kept in public hands,
with costs and liabilities | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
borne by the taxpayer. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
The big headache was making
athletics and football fit in one | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
place, having seating you could put
in and take out. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:19 | |
It was Boris Johnson
who sealed the West Ham deal, | 0:01:19 | 0:01:24 | |
but what was first estimated
to cost £190 million has | 0:01:24 | 0:01:28 | |
actually cost 320 million,
and the current Mayor | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
blames his predecessor. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:35 | |
It beggars belief, it's
staggering, the numbers | 0:01:35 | 0:01:40 | |
of bungled decisions made
by the previous Mayor. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:42 | |
A failure to properly understand
the cost of transforming a stadium | 0:01:42 | 0:01:46 | |
from an athletics stadium
to a football stadium. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:48 | |
Why should the London taxpayer be
subsidising a Premier League club? | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
Why should taxpayers around
the country be subsidising - | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
on an annual basis of up
to £20 million - | 0:01:53 | 0:01:55 | |
a multipurpose venue? | 0:01:55 | 0:01:56 | |
That 20 million is the loss the
stadium is heading for this year. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
Rather than a small
annual profit promised. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
The accountants also say that
West Ham should have been asked | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
to pay more than the £2.5 million
a year in rent. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:06 | |
Their report says the former Mayor
made things worse by insisting | 0:02:06 | 0:02:10 | |
on Rugby World Cup games
being staged here in 2015, | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
delaying preparations
of the stadium for football. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
Boris Johnson wouldn't say
anything directly today, | 0:02:16 | 0:02:17 | |
but a close ally said... | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
Sentiments echoed by one of those
who ran Boris Johnson's Olympic | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
Legacy Organisation for a while. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
Of course the costs have been
higher, but has anybody | 0:02:40 | 0:02:42 | |
behaved badly about this? | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
No. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:45 | |
What they've tried to do,
and what Boris tried to do, | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
was rescue a bad situation. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
And actually, when you look at it,
the turnout, the outturn of it all, | 0:02:49 | 0:02:53 | |
is a very successful stadium that
attracts lots of people | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
and is very well used. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
With the Mayor taking
over full control now, | 0:02:57 | 0:03:02 | |
Newham Council will not be getting
back £40 million they invested. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
Of course it's regrettable that
we've lost some of that money | 0:03:05 | 0:03:10 | |
and we aren't getting it back. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:11 | |
But actually, we always planned
that this was going to be | 0:03:11 | 0:03:14 | |
a regeneration project and we've got
a fantastic stadium | 0:03:14 | 0:03:16 | |
and a fantastic park. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:17 | |
There is a visible legacy
taking shape, but some | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
decisions are now looking
dubious, with hindsight. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:25 | |
A situation, some argue,
where no deal for a bit longer might | 0:03:25 | 0:03:27 | |
have been better than a bad deal. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:29 | |
Tim Donovan, BBC London News. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
A retired window cleaner who failed
to repay nearly £300,000 | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
he inherited from an elderly
customer has been sentenced | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
to 12 months in prison. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:46 | |
Albert Pearce, who's 83,
from Finchley, befriended | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
the woman in her final years. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:50 | |
A court ordered him
to repay all he'd received, | 0:03:50 | 0:03:53 | |
but he failed to do so. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:54 | |
London's parks are increasingly
hiring themselves out for private | 0:03:54 | 0:03:56 | |
events like music festivals
and food markets. | 0:03:56 | 0:03:58 | |
And whilst that brings
in much-needed revenue for councils, | 0:03:58 | 0:04:00 | |
it can be frustrating for people
who want to use their local park. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:05 | |
We asked boroughs how
often this is happening. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:07 | |
Tolu Adayoye has the details. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:15 | |
Well, what happens here
is the massive stage is constructed. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
You can still see the damage caused. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:19 | |
Some of the damage the Friends
of Finsbury Park have blamed | 0:04:19 | 0:04:22 | |
on the staging of the Wireless music
festival on the grounds. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
This is supposed to be a park path,
but actually, what it's | 0:04:25 | 0:04:28 | |
for is for the big trucks to bring
the stage here. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:30 | |
They've lost their second legal
fight seeking to ban it, | 0:04:30 | 0:04:33 | |
in what's been seen as a test case. | 0:04:33 | 0:04:35 | |
These were the scenes two years
ago which sparked some | 0:04:35 | 0:04:38 | |
of the objections to the festival. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:44 | |
The group say they will
keep fighting to save | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
the park from damage
and preserve it for local people. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:48 | |
There's a massive
commercialisation of public parks. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:51 | |
That means park-users, residents,
people who normally use | 0:04:51 | 0:04:53 | |
the park are pushed out. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:59 | |
It's the disruption, the noise,
the actual damage to the park, | 0:04:59 | 0:05:04 | |
a whole range of issues that really,
people say - enough is enough. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
And the number of private events
in London parks is on the rise. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
It was recently announced that
a brand-new festival will take place | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
here in Victoria Park over two
weekends next year. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:17 | |
And in the years '16-'17,
London parks were hired out | 0:05:17 | 0:05:21 | |
for nearly 6,000 days for private
events, generating more | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
than £1.6 million for our councils. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:25 | |
That's a rise of 200%
over five years. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:27 | |
The council that made
the most was Haringey, | 0:05:27 | 0:05:29 | |
the home of Wireless Festival. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:34 | |
Is this all about making
money for the council? | 0:05:34 | 0:05:36 | |
Absolutely not. | 0:05:36 | 0:05:38 | |
The festivals generate revenue,
which is great for us, | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
we get to plough money back
into the park. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
But it's also one
of the biggest urban | 0:05:44 | 0:05:49 | |
But it's also one of the biggest
urban festivals in London and it's | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
great that we have a festival
like this | 0:05:52 | 0:05:54 | |
in the heart of our borough. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:55 | |
It's fine, as long as the profits
can be invested into | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 | |
the children's playground. | 0:05:58 | 0:05:59 | |
If it's away from
residential areas, fine. | 0:05:59 | 0:06:05 | |
But not presidential areas. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:06 | |
But not presidential areas. | 0:06:06 | 0:06:07 | |
I can understand they bring
in a lot of money but it's | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
a lot of disruption,
noise and mess and it | 0:06:10 | 0:06:12 | |
gets overrun sometimes. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:13 | |
If the money is invested
in the park, a couple | 0:06:13 | 0:06:16 | |
of weekends is not too bad. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:17 | |
Wireless has applied
to stage the festival again | 0:06:17 | 0:06:19 | |
in Finsbury Park next year. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:20 | |
As the number of events in parks
rises, the debate over how many | 0:06:20 | 0:06:23 | |
is too many looks set to continue. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:29 | |
Time for me to say goodnight. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:30 | |
And I'll hand you over
to Sarah Keith-Lucas | 0:06:30 | 0:06:31 | |
It is looking a little less cold
than it has been recently. Wintry | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
sunshine today, this is how we ended
the day as the sun set in Colston. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:44 | |
Red chilli, things turn a bit amount
and there will be some sunshine on | 0:06:44 | 0:06:48 | |
offer. Chilly out there. Clear
spells overnight and most places | 0:06:48 | 0:06:54 | |
should stay dry and it could be
isolated light rain showers. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:59 | |
Temperatures just above freezing in
urban areas. In the countryside, | 0:06:59 | 0:07:04 | |
below freezing. Frost, even the
light patch of ice, as possible. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:10 | |
Slightly cloudier on Saturday, and
temperatures between 5-7d. Through | 0:07:10 | 0:07:16 | |
the second half the weekend, a
cloudy and stamps start, that cloud | 0:07:16 | 0:07:21 | |
clears away towards the south
leaving sunny spells by the | 0:07:21 | 0:07:24 | |
afternoon and temperatures back into
double figures, something we have | 0:07:24 | 0:07:27 | |
not seen in a while. I will leave
you with an outbreak of the weather | 0:07:27 | 0:07:31 | |
in the capital and I will pursue to | 0:07:31 | 0:07:33 |