ie Anyone who dares to express an opinion other than that held by NOGOE.

And to think these people are asking for our support.

PS. Pensioner – I hope I’m not one of the ‘others like him’ and that you’ll reply to my question of 17 August @ 5:52pm?

I don’t hate Capability Bowes. But I shall in future ignore him, and others like him.

I have set out Nogoe’s case here and in another recent TGP discussion “Just where do we stand?”; I can’t find the link, I hope that the Phantom will oblige by repeating it. Nogoe’s case can also be read on our website (http://www.nogoe2012.com/) and in our photo diary (linked to on our web page).

Like you, I believe that we are dealing with questions that are much too serious to allow personality differences to get in the way. Greenwich Park and Circus Field have been very badly damaged. No expense must be spared when it comes to putting the damage right. We at Nogoe also believe that the Park should remain public; that is, open to the public, free, all year round.

P.S. I read in the latest Greenwich Mercury that Derrick Spurr, the Royal Parks’ project Manager for 2012 and former manager of Greenwich Park, is using the end of the next growing season (November 2013) as a benchmark for when “people will find it hard to see where the events took place”. Let’s hope that he is largely right; the acid grasslands may not have been fully restored, and the 600 pruned trees can’t be repaired. Let’s hope that Greenwich Council also ensures that Circus Filed is properly restored; see my last post.

I’m curious: who are the current committee members of NOGOE, on whose behalf you claim to be speaking? The committee members are not listed on the NOGOE website, as far as I can tell.

I know that a number of the original leading lights have left the group (or been expelled). Who’s left?

Oh – I know – it’s secret, right? Like your high-level sources.

Can you at least tell us how MANY committee members there are now?

Believe me, I have tried to be reasonable with NOGOE,and failed miserably, as have many others. I am thinking about starting an action group called “NO NOGOE”.

I know you guys hate each other but these things do matter to the local environment and deserve more consideration than a feud between two opposed groups/individuals.

So you hate NOGOE – fine, whatever, but things still need to be put right, above and beyond this silly spat. And 3 weeks after the cross-country, it’d be nice to have the fences removed from the top of the park.
But we won’t know what the long-term situation is for a while yet and, while a walk in April sounds good, it might need more than just the one visit to find out the overall picture.

NOGOE were offered the opportunity to come to the Park next year on the same day as me and the Phant and do a visual recce and as far as I can tell have refused. So personally I am refusing to have anything else to do with you or NOGOE (it is this stridency which has turned many away from your cause) and will not be engaging in this pointless battle of wills with you any further.

End of conversation.

Circus Field is a Site of Nature Conservation of Metropolitan Importance. A central aim of the programme is to protect London’s wildlife habitats and to create new habitats.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/save_greenwich_park/6800130892/in/set-72157629397205479

Since it was enclosed by LOCOG:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/save_greenwich_park/6805159256/in/set-72157629397205479/

Circus Field has been turned into an industrial park:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/save_greenwich_park/7710509010/in/set-72157629397205479

Are you suggesting that they have not damaged it and that they can just walk away when they have finished with it and leave a waste land behind them?