East London Benefits

• Attracting massive inward investment
  
  
• Delivering significant legacy benefits from the infrastructure required, including new flagship sports facilities.
  
  
• Boosting London's tourism industry.
  
  
• Opening up opportunities for local communities in the Valley, among the most deprived in the UK.
  
  
• Delivering 9,000 new homes in the Olympic precinct after the 2012 Games
  
  
• Providing a major boost for business and jobs
  
  
• Engaging and motivating young people in sport and physical activity – in an area which has one of the worst health records in the UK.
  
  
• Showcasing the strengths of east London – e.g. as a thriving creative and cultural quarter of the capital.
  
  
• Providing focus for new local training and skills programmes specifically linked to the needs of the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games – e.g. construction
  
  
• Vastly improving the physical landscape of the Lower Lea Valley – pylons that characterise the area will be removed.
  
  
• Creating a huge new parkland that will stretch from Hackney Marshes in the north of the Valley, south along the River Lea to the Thames
  
  
• Bringing state of the art 'green' energy facilities to power the Games, securing a permanent energy legacy for the Valley, in line with the Mayor's Sustainable Development Commission's recommendations
  
  
• Restoration of the River Lea's unique waterways, improving the ecology and enhancing the biodiversity of the area.
  
  
• Providing a better sense of security and openness along the canals.
  
  
• Building on the public and private investment already underway in the Lower Lea Valley area, including the international passenger station on the channel tunnel rail link at Stratford and the associated commercial housing, retail and leisure developments.
  
  
• Levering greater private investment and providing the impetus for lasting regeneration on a scale that years of separate initiatives have failed to achieve. With this level of investment, regeneration will happen sooner and be of a higher quality than would otherwise be possible.
  
  
• Providing an opportunity to improve the health of residents in the area.