Benefits
There will be many benefits left locally to the main site, which covers parts of Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Hackney.
- A new 500 acre park (bigger than Hyde Park) will be available for the public. This will be the biggest new park in Europe for over 100 years.
- New transport, including the new service from Stratford International to France. This will take you to Kings Cross in less than 10 minutes, and also directly to France.
- There’ll also be lots of new carriages for the DLR and Jubilee Line, the new East London metro service will be open, and the Silverlink line gets major improvements, not to mention a number of new bus services and lanes.
- Around 9,000 new homes will be left from the Olympic Village or built afterwards, and up to 50% of these will be ‘affordable’, with many being fully accessible for people with disabilities.
- However, the Games must also provide a social legacy too. It needs to give people from east London and Essex more jobs, improved skills and qualifications - while helping people to become more active with increased access to sports and healthy activities.
East Thames and the Olympics
Whilst the physical things to be left after the Games are more or less guaranteed, the social things are not. East Thames has a plan in place which will guide its ‘Olympic’ work over the next six years and beyond.
There are four main themes:
- Communicating the benefits and opportunities of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to all, so our residents, stakeholders and staff have all the information they need.
- Representing local people’s views to the Olympic authorities, ensuring that the Games delivers on the priorities of East London and Essex.
- Using the build up to 2012 to expand our many social responsibility programmes, such as our construction training initiatives, or our sport and healthy living programmes.
- Creating new projects to help local people get the most from London’s Olympics, and to leave a positive and lasting legacy for all our neighbourhoods.
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