(ATR) Around the Rings has learned that new Russian plans to promote the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in London are finally set for planning approval next week.
Original plans for an ice skating rink and arts and culture pavilions to promote the Winter Games at Marble Arch drew opposition from police and transport authorities over traffic congestion, security and environmental concerns. Planners said the venue would be vulnerable to a terrorist attack. The plans were rejected by Westminster City Council in October.
But the revised "Sochi.Park" plans, relocated to be part of the Russian Olympic Committee hospitality site in Kensington, are recommended for approval by the council's planning committee at a June 19 meeting.
The combined activities are to be known as Russia.Sochi.Park,. A website www.russiasochipark.com will help promote the park.
According to the planning application from Sochi – seen by ATR – the Games organizing committee is seeking permission to build a 1,200-capacity covered ice rink and a large cultural pavilion and visitor attraction at the site.
No objections have been filed by police, environmental planners and English Heritage.
There would be two shows daily on the ice rink, each around two hours duration.
The rink would not be made available for public use, according to the application filed with council.
The main cultural pavilion would be open from 10.00-21.30 every day.
Russian Olympics chiefs estimate that the Sochi ice rink and pavilions would attract between 9,000 and 11,000 people every day during the Games.
Sochi 2014 aims to be on site constructing the temporary venues on July 2. They would be fully operational July 26 to Aug. 12 when the London Olympics close. Under the plans, organizers would remove all structures by Aug. 24.
After Marble Arch plans were rejected, Sochi 2014 president and CEO Dmitry Chernyshenko has always been confident of winning planning approval for a Sochi promotional development elsewhere. With five weeks to go before the Games start, Sochi obviously has little time left to get plans ratified.
"Sochi.Park will showcase the Sochi Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games concept and the wider Krasnodar region to the British public and London 2012 guests," Chernyshenko said.
Reported by Mark Bisson
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