What's your opinion on the location of the site compared to the location of the residents of that area? Hopefully you're not calling the locals amoebas.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Braithwaite+House,+7+Forre...

I suspect OP is referring to the presence of newts or bats or greater-crested hedge warblers etc, which can put a stop on building work for literally years in the UK

To hell with nature, we need a giant spherical video screen!

I walk past this site multiple times a week. It's currently partially derelict land and a car park. Not sure which nature you're talking about.

How about just making it a good old fashioned nature park? Vegas and Dubai are plenty enough for building extravagant vanity projects.

And if the private owner of the space cannot extract value from it without degrading the quality of life of the surrounding area's residents, maybe there should be laws to give it back to the public. This would also tackle "investors" that buy cheap properties amass and leave them to rot, until they can make enough profit from gentrification.

Let me clear, as a local to Stratford (not within direct line of sight to where this would be though), I don't particularly support this project. But, there's already a fair amount of green space around the Olympic park.

I wasn't talking about this project at all, I was responding to GP's sarcastic assertion that there's "always some kind of rare amoeba whose habitat would be impacted."

Same here in Germany, but I don't think that it's always a bad idea. Should help to make better decisions. Why seal land instead of reusing already existing lots.

In that case here, it's a huge screen in front of a lot of peoples windows, so I see why it's a dumb decision. I wouldn't want that either.

A policy to defend nature is a good one... But the nature that gets defended shouldn't depend on which pissed off residents hire the right naturalist to go find some reason building can't happen.

In the West you can stop pretty much any construction be releasing a rabbit family on the site and then sending a picture of them to the media. It will block construction for years until they decide where to relocate them.

Not in Stratford, the foxes would scoff them almost immediately.

Perfect, send a picture with the cute foxes that would be displaced to the media.

No cute foxes in London, grimy greasy animals due to mainly subsisting on discarded fried chicken and kebabs (which is why they'd be so keen on a fresh rabbit).