Housing

Building for the future now

Family homes and successful communities are at the heart of our plans for the future. Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will bring tradition and innovation together in a landscape of family homes, quality apartments, waterways, parklands and open spaces. With less family housing being built in London than ever before, the new homes on the Park will go someway to meeting the capital’s needs for the 21st century.

The Park’s housing offer will be about the right mix of affordability and housing types. From one and two bedroom apartments around the south plaza, to three or four bedroom houses with their own front doors near the waterways and open spaces.

Five new neighbourhoods will be established around the Park, each with a distinct character and a mix of housing sizes, ownership and rental options. These new neighbourhoods and the Athletes Village will eventually provide up to 11,000 new homes. The first homes will be available in the Athletes Village from 2013 onwards, with new family homes available in the north of the Park a few years after.

For more information on the Athletes Village, please visit the Triathlon Homes website.

These developments will be part of a much bigger change across the Lower Lee Valley, with new homes planned in Bromley-by-Bow, Hackney Wick, Canning Town and Leyton. This is in addition to the several thousand homes already being built in and around Stratford.

Like everything else to do with the future of the Park, we’re looking into all the options and working with local organisations and housing associations to identify innovative models of affordable housing, such as shared ownership, shared equity and the feasibility of community trusts.

Commitments

• Up to 11,000 new homes
• 35% affordable housing
• 40% family homes

    
Plans and proposals

To develop the type of housing that people want, we will only promote projects that:

• Build a diverse range of homes designed for a wide mix of people
• Use efficient energy and green technologies
• Provide different types of outdoor space for families, including private, neighborhood and community play
• Design housing to meet changing needs over the next 20 to 30 years
• Create high quality, aspirational homes that attract people to the area
• Create family housing that encourages stable and long lasting neighbourhoods
• Include high quality, affordable homes for people excluded from the housing market
• Provide a choice of housing that attracts and includes established residents