CONSTRUCTION of a temporary Olympic police base is due to begin on Wanstead Flats.
Work on the eight acre site, which will be surrounded by an 11-foot high fence, will start this Saturday (June 23).
The police's Olympic Community Relations Project say they are planning to hold a public open session at the base in July.
Campaigners fought an unsuccessful battle in the courts to prevent the base being built after Parliament temporarily suspended a 136-year-old act which prohibits building on Forest land.
It will be allowed to stand for 90 days after which it will be removed and the police will pay the City of London £170,000 in compensation.
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