Olympic Arc
Where
A series of four specific areas around the
Olympic Park and Stratford City sites (Hackney Wick and Fish
Island, Northern Olympic Fringe, Stratford Town Centre and
Stratford High Street), completing a suite of documents and
masterplanning that will undergo significant regeneration and
growth in the next 10-30 years.
Key outputs by 2016
LTGDC aims to deliver:
- 2,680 new homes in Stratford Centre and Hackney Wick
- 2,450 jobs
- LTGDC investment: £42m
- Private sector investment: £350m.
About the area
The legacy of the 2012 Games will be felt throughout the region
but nowhere more keenly than in the fringe of the Olympic Park.
The huge investment in the 2012 Games and Stratford City
development (a mixed use development comprising a retail park the
size of Bluewater, a hotel plus commercial and residential
accommodation) will have a huge impact on the surrounding areas of
Hackney Wick, Fish Island, Stratford High Street and Stratford town
centre, together within Leyton and Leytonstone.
LTGDC projects
The LTGDC, with its borough partners, and
Design for London, have led on six key masterplanning projects to
review and inform emerging planning policy and
future investment.
Consultants EDAW, who led the Olympic
Park masterplan, have been appointed by LTGDC and partners to
prepare a masterplan for Hackney Wick and Fish Island. This study
has reviewed the spatial objectives for the area including how the
location will change and provide the potential for new homes and
jobs, together with improvements in transport infrastructure.
Public consultation will commence in 2009 and the masterplan will
be adopted by the borough partners. In Stratford High Street
and Sugar House Lane, the LTGDC, with the London Borough of Newham
commissioned consultants Urban Practitioners to undertake the
masterplanning works, including provision of a design study for
Stratford High Street where 9,000 new homes are planned.
In Stratford Town Centre, the LTGDC are
working with Birkbeck College and University of East London to
develop a new campus next to Stratford shopping centre by 2010,
providing part-time study geared to the economic needs of the wider
area.
LTGDC is also funding work on an extension of
the Olympic Park’s district energy network (CHP), to the wider area
– the aim is to reduce carbon emissions and provide energy for
homes and businesses in the Olympic Arc.