Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
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Website | queenelizabetholympicpark |
Full name | Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park |
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Former names | Olympic Park (2012 Summer Olympics) |
Main venue | London Stadium Capacity: |
Other sports facilities | Aquatics Centre Copper Box Arena Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre Lee Valley VeloPark |
Operator | London Legacy Development Corporation |
Construction | |
Built | 2008–2011 |
Opened | 2012 |
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is a sporting complex and public park in
It was simply called The Olympic Park during the Games but was later renamed to commemorate the
Location
The site covers parts of Stratford, Bow, Leyton, and Hackney Wick in east London, overlooking the A12 road. The site was previously a mixture of greenfield and brownfield land, including parts of Hackney Marshes.[8]
The Royal Mail gave the park and Stratford City the postcode E20, which had previously only appeared in the television soap opera EastEnders for the fictional suburb of Walford.[9]
On 2 August 2011, it was announced the five neighbourhoods of housing and amenities (anti-clockwise from north-east) are:
- Chobham Manor in the London Borough of Newham
- East Wick in the London Borough of Hackney (by Hackney Wick)
- Sweetwater in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
- Pudding Millin the London Borough of Newham
- Marshgate Wharf in the London Borough of Newham
These names have relevant history in the area.
History
Design
The park was designed by the EDAW Consortium (including
Legacy List charity
The Legacy List is the independent charity for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, set up in 2011 to support the legacy of the Games. Their mission is to make creative connections between people and the Park by developing, commissioning and supporting high quality art, education and skill building initiatives, to engage, educate and inspire current and future generations.[14]
Construction
During its construction over 80,000 workers were engaged on the project.
Constituent sections of the park
- London Aquatics Centre
- Copper Box Arena
- Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre
- Lee Valley VeloPark
- London Stadium
- ArcelorMittal Orbit
- East Village, London
- London Olympics Media Centre
- International Quarter London
- Northern Parklands
In addition, at the time of the Olympic and Paralympic games:
- Eton Manor
- Riverbank Arena
- Water Polo Arena
- Basketball Arena
- Park Live
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The London Aquatics Centre with the ArcelorMittal Orbit on the right
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Olympic gardens in front of the River Lea and its tributary the City Mill River
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Northern Parklands with the River Lea, looking south
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Northern Parklands with the River Lea, looking south
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The park looking south from Eastcross Bridge
Post-Olympics
The park has been given over to a number of current and planned uses after the London 2012 Summer Olympics finished, such as:[17][18]
- A part of the East London Tech City technology hub.[19]
- One of the largest urban parks created in Western Europe for more than 150 years, designed to enrich and preserve the local environment, by restoring wetland habitats and planting native species of plants.[20]
- 3,600 apartments, the East Village, next to the Stratford City neighbourhood of Stratford, London.[citation needed]
- The Manor Garden Allotments (reinstated after alternative use).[21]
- The ArcelorMittal Orbit, a steel tower which is the largest public work of art in the UK and a tourist attraction.[22]
- In 2012, it was announced that the UK's main Olympic Museum would be opened at the park in 2014 next to the ArcelorMittal Orbit.[23] The plans were shelved in July 2013.[24]
- A new Head Office for Transport for London, after the closure of 55 Broadway.[25]
East Bank
As of January 2021, several arts and creativity institutions are constructing outposts at the park as part of a £1.1billion[26][27] development,[28][29] including:
- The Victoria and Albert Museum will open a new museum.[28]
- Sadler's Wells Ballet Company will open a new 550-seat theatre.[30]
- University College London opened its new UCL East campus within the park in 2023.[31]
- The BBC hopes to relocate its famous Maida Vale Studios.[27]
- University of the Arts London's London College of Fashion relocated to the park and opened its new campus in 2023.[32]
International Quarter London
International Quarter London will include 4 million sq ft of commercial office space,[36] 330 homes known as Glasshouse Gardens and a new hotel.[37] The area is accessible via Stratford station.
Subsequent international sporting events
Although the sporting venues in the park were reduced in scale after the conclusion of London 2012, part of the legacy is to ensure the continued use of those facilities that are permanent, as local and community resources and for major international sporting events that make use of the world class facilities constructed for the Olympics and Paralympics:
- The Stadium hosted the London Grand Prix athletics event starting in 2013.[38]
- The third stage of the 2014 Tour de France between Cambridge and The Mall in London passed through the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
- In September 2014 the first Invictus Games was held in the park.[39]
- In 2010, a bid was submitted to use the Stadium as the venue for the 2015 World Athletics Championships. Due to the then uncertainty over the future use of the stadium, this bid was withdrawn, with instead a subsequent bid for the 2017 World Championships submitted instead. The success of this bid was announced on 13 November 2011.[40]
- The women's 2015 European hockey championships took place at the revamped Lee Valley Hockey Centre.[41]
- London was announced as the only formal bidder for the 2017 World Paralympic Championships in October 2012.[42]
- In December 2012 the International Tennis Federation announced that the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre would host the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters between 2014 and 2016.[43]
- London successfully bid for the right to hold the
- Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games were hosted at the Velodrome.[46]
Resident sports clubs
In addition to the use of the venues for international events, some of them are intended for use on a regular basis by amateur and professional sports teams in various sports.
On 11 February 2011,
The Copper Box was the only permanent indoor arena remaining after the end of London 2012. Built primarily for use in the
The Lee Valley Hockey Centre was born from a revamp of the
Following the demolition of the original warm-up track after the end of the Olympics, a new six-lane facility, the
Concerts
In January 2013, music concert promoter
The stadium has since hosted various concerts, including Guns N' Roses, AC/DC and Robbie Williams.
In 2021, ABBA began construction of a purpose-built arena in the Olympic Park, called the ABBA Arena, for a motion-capture hologram concert residency which would take place from May 2022. The announcement of the arena's construction and purpose took place during a YouTube livestream to announce the release of their album Voyage.[58]
Transport
Railway stations
- London Liverpool Street, Romford, Shenfield, Chelmsford, Colchester, Braintree, Bishop's Stortford, Ipswich, Southend, Clacton-on-Sea and Norwich. c2c also operates services to Tilbury, Basildon and Shoeburyness.
- Custom House, Canning Townand Stratford.
- Pudding Mill Lane DLR station is another DLR station just south of the park. It was rebuilt in 2014 after the Olympics; the previous station was so small that it was closed during the Olympics for safety reasons. DLR trains serve the station from Stratford, Lewisham, Greenwich and Canary Wharf.
- Richmond and Clapham Junction via Shepherd's Bush.
London Buses
Bus stations
- Clapton, Leytonstone and Shadwell with also route 388 serving it to London Bridge. National Express and Airport Bus Express operate 24-hour coach services to London Stansted Airport.
- Stratford bus station has bus services to many parts of East London, including Barking, Canary Wharf, Ilford, Romford and Walthamstow, plus route 25 to the City of London.[60]
See also
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External links
- Official website
- Venues: Olympic Park London 2012
- London Legacy Development Corporation Archived 20 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine