Development Investments
The Legacy Masterplan Framework (LMF) will guide the long-term development of the Olympic Park after the Games. The LMF is a framework rather than a blueprint and allows for flexibility in relation to the detailed form, scale and amount of development in each part of the site.
The LMF has progressed through collboration and testing with a wide range of legacy partners and stakeholders, and extensive public consultation.
Looking at development of the Olympic Park over the next 20 to 30 years, the aim of the LMF is to deliver world-class sustainable urban regeneration, leading to a new metropolitan area of London within the Lower Lee Valley. This includes homes, open space, play areas, work places, education centres, community facilities and much more.
Private sector partners will be essential to deliver the housing-led, mixed-use development opportunities over the next 25 years. Our role as the Legacy Company is to ensure that the public sector engages effectively with the private sector to jointly deliver the proposals set out in the LMF.
Up until May 2009, when the Olympic Park Legacy Company was established, the preparation of the LMF was led by the London Development Agency, who undertook extensive consultation and engagement with local communities and stakeholders.
The Olympic Park Legacy Company has now taken responsibility for delivery of the LMF and will continue the extensive work that has already been progressed by the LDA and other partners. The Legacy Company is currently taking stock of the LMF to ensure that it is genuinely deliverable, that it addresses corporate priorities and also addresses key stakeholder concerns. The results of this review and the latest plans for the Park will be clearly communicated on this website from June 2010.
A number of planning applications for the Olympic Park after the Games will be submitted in the next few years and the first legacy planning application will be submitted by early 2011.
There has already been a huge amount of investment to clean up and prepare the sites for future development. Utilities such as heating, cooling and telecoms are already established. The transport infrastructure is already in place with an outline road network, access routes to the Park and a new bridge, plus existing infrastructure around Stratford.
Although the post games transformation of the Park will be planned over decades, the first five years of the site's development will be crucial. What occurs during this period will have a significant influence over the success of bringing local people together to use the venues and creating a "must see, must return" destination for domestic and international visitors.
These important first five years of development will begin in 2014. While working on the long-term development plans, there will also be opportunities for interim uses on parcels of land awaiting development. As part of the public consultation carried out in 2009, suggestions from local people about these interim uses included temporary allotments, cultural festivals, religious events, outdoor classrooms, a skate park and a lido.
If you have any ideas for interim uses for the Park, please contact us on info@legacycompany.co.uk
The LMF has the potential to deliver thousands of new homes with a range of affordability, in addition to those being built in Stratford City and the Olympic Village.
The aim is to create a mixed housing sustainable community. The challenge is to establish a new benchmark for quality, design, construction and management for regeneration of the area.
To create a successful metropolitan area in this part of London over the next 25 years, we are looking to create new neighbourhoods within the Olympic Park. These new areas will be integrated with existing, surrounding communities to create a thriving new heart for east London.
The new neighbourhoods will be informed by the character of existing local places to ensure that there are no divides between old and new. Each will have a broad mix of housing sizes, ownership and rental options.
The neighbourhoods and the mix of housing and facilities in each of them is currently under review, but details will be available on this website from June 2010.
