London Olympics Legacy Plan

Almost two years to the day from the opening ceremony of the london 2012 olympic games 27 july 2012 a new report from the british government shows that the olympic games continue to provide significant legacies for the city of london and britain as a whole.
London olympics legacy plan. However the games legacy is being driven across the uk and beyond by a rich variety of organisations communities and individuals including. This is a plan produced by the uk government. Instead of becoming a dedicated athletics venue the stadium has controversially become the home of premier league team west ham united with the club paying 2m a year to use the building. Legacy includes sporting economic cultural and environmental benefits.
The olympic park will be transformed into the queen elizabeth country park and the permanent venues within it will bring new leisure facilities to the area. 125m per year funding for elite sport over the next four years up until rio 2016. The mass participation legacy plan called places people play will see 135 million of lottery funding spent on facilities protecting playing fields volunteering programmes and extending access. Five years on from the london 2012 olympics we investigate how the games are leaving a lasting legacy on the uk s capital.
The regeneration of east london and particularly stratford the site of the olympic park will bring untold benefits to the area and the local communities that live there. The london bid for the 2012 summer olympic and paralympic games included bid chairman lord coe placing a pledge to use the events to inspire two million people to take up sport and physical activity at the heart of the bid. The government has now set out a 10 point legacy plan which mps will be kept up to date on. The queen elizabeth olympic park is managed as a private site by the london legacy development corporation lldc a mayoral development corporation established in 2012 while the former athletes village now known as east village contains the pseudo public spaces victory park and mirabelle gardens.
Drivers of regeneration in east london. For more videos by the b1m subscr. Whilst the olympic stadium was the centerpiece of the games its legacy plan didn t materialize after 2012.