Four years after the Olympic Games were hosted in London, the regeneration plans for the park have been adapted to say the least. But has the LLDC managed to adhere to the legacy promises that won the UK the Olympic bid in the first place?
When Lord Coe pulled off the stunning coup in July 2005 of securing the right for London to host the 2012 Olympic Games, it was pretty clear that one word encapsulated the reason why the UK capital won: legacy. And, while that word meant one thing to athletes hoping to inspire the next generation of sportspeople, for the people of East London it meant the potential to regenerate one of the most stubbornly grim and deprived parts of nearly central London. 2012 was to be the 鈥渓egacy鈥� Olympics.
The level of ambition was not small. Originally the London Development Agency promised that 9,000 homes would be built on the site of the Olympic park, of which half would be affordable, and that legacy uses for all of the venues would be nailed down before the Games took place. There was to be a construction academy and a pilot of mutual home ownership on the site. Many of these original promises - such as the construction academy - were dropped or amended before the Games even took place. However, t