Olympic Legacy Supplementary Planning Guidance

The significant public sector investment in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and the Lea Valley in preparation for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is already providing a catalyst for tackling decades of underinvestment across east London. Land is being reclaimed, infrastructure and green spaces improved and created, waterways brought back into use, new sporting and community facilities constructed and new homes built. In short – a new piece of city is being made.

Policy 2.4 of the Mayor’s London Plan identifies the potential of the Games to deliver fundamental economic, social and environmental change in east London, and describes it as ‘London’s single most important regeneration project for the next 25 years’. The Plan also confirms the Mayor’s commitment to use the Games and its legacy to secure ‘Convergence’ by closing the deprivation gap between the Olympic Host Boroughs and the rest of London.

The Mayor estimates that the OLSPG area has the potential to provide around 29,000 new homes and 1.35 million square metres of new and improved commercial floorspace and confirms Metropolitan Stratford as a focus for regeneration and change. The draft SPG sets out a vision for the area which includes making it one of the best places to live and work in London.

The Olympic Legacy SPG consultation draft was produced by the GLA working with officers from the London Boroughs of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest, the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation, Transport for London and the Olympic Delivery Authorities’ Planning Decisions Team. It was agreed by the Mayor for public consultation on 26 July 2011 and when published in its final form will supersede the Lower Lea Valley Opportunity Area Planning Framework where the two documents overlap geographically.

It is available in PDF and RTF (text only) files to download below. Because of the size of the PDF document, it is available in five parts and sections two and three are particularly large.

The consultation period ran from 12 September to 18 November 2011.

Olympic Legacy SPG background studies were published in January 2012.