[TomGullen]

No flying kites? Isn't that what we were saying you couldn't do under Taliban control about 5 years ago and laughing at how ludicrous it was?

Nice to see tens of millions of public money going on vanity projects like this with ridiculous baggage attached to it.

The £20mm public loan over a 50 year period sounds interesting. I wonder what interest rate they are getting on that. I would LOVE to see it. Maybe I'll do a FOI request. If I could bet on it, I'd bet they have a pretty swell deal.

[jarek]

Strictly speaking, flying kites is not allowed in other London streets as well ("any street, to the obstruction, annoyance, or danger of the residents or passengers", from a 19th century law http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/89/section/28). Flying a kite from the pavement of Waterloo Bridge seems intuitively a bad idea so that's not very controversial. It does undermine their "park" claims though...

[vidarh]

I'd be tempted fly a bag of cheap phones under a kite.. "The tracking system says there's a gang of people gathering... What?!? Now they're hovering over the water?!?"

[deadfish]

It would probably be deemed 'commercially sensitive'. I sent a FOI to my university and that was what they used to get out of it.

[TomGullen]

I've sent one off, let's see what happens. I've done quite a few before. If they don't reply, it's often worth trying again but rephrasing or targeting a specific detail.