So the Olympics are coming to London in 2012.
In those seven, short years, the Government will have to ensure the compulsory purchase of land, re-house businesses and residents, build a stadium, a water park, thousands of apartments in the Olympic village, enough hotels for a million visitors, a cross-London rail link, new roads, a new terminal at City Airport, as well as extend three Tube lines, put a roof on Wimbledon and finish Wembley.
It will also have to accelerate planning permission, override environmental objections, wait for a report from the Government's planning inspector and then override any objections from the local LibDem MP.
We have waited nearly the same amount of time for a single decision on Falmer. Let's hope the Government doesn't appoint John Prescott or the Olympics won't be ready until 2112.
-Chris Rackley, Burgess Hill
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