Evicted London businesses are still waiting for Games compensation

Scores of London businesses and landlords who were forced out of their premises to make way for the Olympic Park are still battling for £78million in outstanding claims.

Six years after the capital won the right to stage the 2012 Games, the London Development Agency has admitted that it is yet to pay promised compensation to 93 of the claimants served with Olympic compulsory purchase orders.

So far the LDA has spent £681million on land acquisition, but today it admitted that some firms had only received part-payments.

Skip and waste management company GB Macks Skips was forced to move twice because the LDA could not find an appropriate site after it was ousted from Temple Mills Lane, Leyton, in 2007.

The Huckles say their family business has so far received only £235,000 of £310,000 it was promised for the cost of the move, which they say was ratified by the LDA in May 2009.

The company is yet to receive compensation for the compulsory purchase order which, including loss of profits, legal fees and moving costs, it says is £4million-£6million.

Company adviser Alistair Hipperson said the firm had written to Mayor Boris Johnson, Chancellor George Osborne and Business Secretary Vince Cable in a plea for help in July but received no response.

The LDA said over £365,000 was paid to GB Mack Skips and their advisors and that they are considering a claim which includes a further £226,000 in professional advisor fees.

An LDA spokesman said: "The Olympic Park compulsory purchase order was one of the largest and most complex ever in the UK - covering around 2,220 different land interests across the site.

"The LDA met and exceeded its statutory responsibilities by helping businesses, residents, travellers, allotment holders, and cyclists find alternative premises.

"In the process we protected some 98 per cent of the jobs that had been on the site. Several companies, such as Bowater and Newsfax, used the move to consolidate and expand their operations.

"We have always said that - by the very nature of the CPO process - it will take years to settle all claims. Ahead of any final agreement, we offer all companies an up front payment of 90 per cent of our valuation.

"For the record, far from failing to meet our commitments to GB Mack Skips, we have already paid them and their advisors over £365,000 and are continuing to negotiate with them.

"Our approach has always been that we will ensure that any final settlement is fair and protects the public purse."