is now a widely used popular sporting complex and public park, a legacy of the games. Since the
London 2012 Paralympic Games finished on 9 September 2012 the UK Government has unveiled an updated Legacy Plan. Its main points include: • increased funding for elite sport • investment to turn the Olympic site into the
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park • 20 major sporting events to UK by 2019, with more bids in progress • £1bn investment over the next five years in the Youth Sport Strategy, linking schools with sports clubs and encouraging sporting habits for life • introduction of the School Games programme to boost schools sport and county sport festivals • continued funding for International Inspiration, the UK's international sports development programme There have been several previous legacy plans. These include:
Legacy Plan 2010 In December 2010, the Government published a new Legacy plan, which set out the legacy vision for the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, and the detailed plans underpinning it. It identified four areas to focus on: harnessing the UK's passion for sport to increase grassroots participation, particularly by young people, and to encourage the whole population to be more physically active; exploiting to the full the opportunities for economic growth offered by hosting the Games; promoting community engagement and achieving participation across all groups in society through the Games; and ensuring that the Olympic Park can be developed after the Games as one of the principal drivers of regeneration in East London.
Six borough plans 2009 The six London boroughs hosting the Games –
Barking and Dagenham,
Greenwich,
Hackney,
Newham,
Tower Hamlets and
Waltham Forest – published plans for legacy in 2009. This was outlined in the Strategic Regeneration Framework which included the objective that by 2030, the communities hosting the Games would have the same social and economic life chances as at least the London average. This is the principle of Convergence and guides its joint working on legacy.
Legacy Action Plan 2008 A Legacy Action Plan to implement legacy promises was published on 6 June 2008. With comments that the legacy has been published several years earlier than previous Olympics and critics claiming the plan lacks the detail needed to implement an effective legacy. • Make the UK a world-leading sporting nation • Transform the heart of the
East End of London • Inspire a generation of young people to take part in local volunteering, cultural, and physical activity • Make the Olympic Park a blueprint for sustainable living • Demonstrate the UK is a creative, inclusive, and welcoming place to live in, visit, and for business
Strategic Regeneration Framework The Strategic Regeneration Framework and Convergence make real the promise in the original bid document that "By staging the Games in this part of the city, the most enduring legacy of the Olympics will be the regeneration of an entire community for the direct benefit of everyone who lives there". The principle of Convergence is included in the Mayor of London's spatial development strategy, known as The London Plan 2011.
Proven legacy The Japanese style '
Olympic Javelin' bullet trains used to ferry spectators at
London 2012 began to run on 28 July 2012 and were still running as of 2023, serving more destinations. Some station upgrades also occurred. Sport relief occurred at the
Olympic Park in 2013, 2014, When concert promoters
Live Nation won the right to stage shows at the stadium and in the surrounding park during January, 2013. The site of the former
Riverbank Arena slated to be the stage for
Hard Rock Calling,
Wireless and
Electric Daisy Carnival festivals in 2013. The Lee Valley Hockey Centre was borne from a revamp of the
Olympic Legacy Hockey Facility and is the home ground of
Wapping Hockey Club. ==Legacy bodies==