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UK Olympic Bid 'Faces Failure'

LONDON-The capital won't get the 2012 Olympics unless it makes accessible environments a key part of its pitch, architects from Miller Hughes Associates told a Town & Country Planning Association conference

By Charlie Jacoby | Updated on May 28, 2003

LONDON-The International Olympic Committee wants accessible environments built into any bid for the 2012 Olympics and London is in danger of not providing this. Charles Hughes and David Aplin of Miller Hughes Associates believe that London’s bid for the 2012 Olympics will fail unless the capital can demonstrate that its design for an Olympic development in East London understands the relationship between accessibility, sustainable development and the exercise of corporate social responsibility.

Speaking at the Town & Country Planning Association ‘Access All Areas’ conference in London, Hughes said: ‘The creation of accessible environments sits within the overall context of social inclusion, which is a key element of sustainable development. Where facilities are paid for by the public purse, social inclusion and accessibility should be considered as fundamentals, but, for the private sector too, companies now recognise that the exercise of corporate social responsibility requires a more enlightened approach to accessibility and social inclusion.’

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