DEVELOPMENT FOCUS
Marshgate Wharf at street level
Fact File
Developer: The Legacy Corporation
Location: East London
Type: Mixed
Completion Date: Spring 2014
Project value: £292m
built and the existing BMX track regraded for public use. This is the first time these four cycling disciplines will be brought together and will create the finest cycling hub in the world which will be owned and run by Lee Valley Regional Park Authority.
• Aquatics Centre: The Aquatics Centre will be converted into Zaha Hadid’s original design by replacing the two temporary seating wings with glass windows allowing natural light to illuminate the pools. Operator GLL will then help to fit out the venue as a public leisure centre.
• Eton Manor: Eton Manor hosted the Paralympic Wheelchair Tennis competition and warm up swimming pools during the Games. The Legacy Corporation will create a completely new sports facility called Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre, which will be owned and run by Lee Valley Regional Park Authority. It has already won the right to host the 2015 European Hockey
Championships and is bidding for the 2014-16 ITF Wheelchair Tennis Masters Championship.
• North Park and Park Hub: The green space in the North Park will be significantly extended. New planting will include 4,300 semi- mature trees including 51 Black Poplars, more than 100,000 new shrubs and almost one million bulbs. A new park hub with a
new cafe and community and events space will be created along with one of the best children’s playgrounds in the UK. It will include log piles, den making facilities and lots of other features which will combine nature and play.
• South Plaza and Park Hub: This 28 acre area, the size of 16 football pitches, will be transformed into London’s newest public space. A spectacular urban park offering concerts, events and attractions. A 12 metre wide tree-lined boulevard will be the gateway to a series of outdoor rooms shaped by 5m wide planting designed by Piet Oudolf, containing fountains, climbable walls, giant swings and a revitalised traditional lock. This area has been designed by James Corner Field Operations, the same firm that designed New York’s High Line – a public garden which opened in June 2009 and now attracts four million visitors a year.
• Chobham Manor: Taylor Wimpey and London and Quadrant will begin building the Park’s first neighbourhood Chobham Manor in autumn 2013. The
neighbourhood, which will be on the current site of the Basketball Arena, will offer around 850 homes, 70% of which will be family homes of three bedrooms or more.
• Copper Box: The Copper Box hosted handball during the Olympic Games and Goalball
during the Paralympic Games. The outside will remain the same, but inside it will be turned into a public leisure centre alongside operator GLL. The Copper Box will have a flexible seating capacity of around 7,500 seats and facilities for a wide range of community sports, competitions as well as cultural and business events.
• ArcelorMittal Orbit: The ArcelorMittal Orbit structure will not need any work, but operator Balfour Beatty Workplace will be furnishing the interior inside. It will be a visitor attraction with unique views across London from the two glass enclosed platforms.
• East Marsh: Reinstatement of 12 football pitches on Hackney Marshes.
• Temporary Venues: Waterpolo, the Basketball Arena and Riverside Arena (already dismantled) will be removed.
• Press and Broadcast Centre and the Stadium: The transformation work on these two venues is dependent on the outcome of bidding processes, both of which are currently in their final phases.
SUCCESS & THE FUTURE With a 20 year build programme planned, the Legacy Corporation has a real opportunity to switch a whole generation of east Londoners on to construction as a career. The Legacy Corporation
is prioritising the creation of new construction apprenticeship opportunities and have set a minimum target of 3% of the total construction workforce to be apprentices. The transformation project will see a peak of around 1,000 construction workers employed on the Park. BAM Nuttall, our Tier One Contractor for transformation has already announced its plans to recruit 30 apprentices. More
apprenticeship places are to become available through Balfour Beatty’s transformation of the Aquatics Centre.
Colin Naish, Executive Director of Infrastructure at the London Legacy Development Corporation, said: “I’m delighted that we’re able to mark the next phase in London’s Olympic legacy and our journey to create London’s most dynamic urban district. It’s only a couple of months since the Paralympics ended, and the transformation of the site is already well under way. Taking control of the Park today is another major milestone and in only eight months time the Park will begin to re-open. Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will be home to some of the best sporting and entertainment venues in the world, and will be a vibrant destination for people to live, work, visit and enjoy.” ■
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