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I am standing in for Andy Altman the chief executive of the Olympic Park Legacy company who unfortunately has been unable to join us Andy has been a member of the urban age since its inception And is now very involved in running one of probably Europe's largest urban redevelopment project I've taken the liberty after consulting with Wolfgang and others whether this was okay to effectively give his talk very aware that Otherwise, I'll see maybe using too much airspace But I think it's an important contribution because what I'm going to talk about or what he would have talked about is can an event like The London Olympics actually make a difference to the health of the city now yesterday We already with Stephen O'Brien and Tony Travers began to talk about some of these issues So I'm going to just use his presentation and add to that and Marianne You'll tell me how we're doing in terms of time a lot of discussion happened yesterday in Terms of understanding inequality in a city like London And we talked a lot about the fact that East London has its own sort of set of problems in terms of downgraded public housing a Degree of lack of infrastructure particularly in health education and other services And it's right in the middle of this area that the Olympics is actually being built In fact, this is a very very recent picture and you begin to see the main stadium already completed and some of the other facilities happening This is a view of the map of deprivation of London that we saw yesterday Showing how the darker colors Concentrate social deprivation in the east There's the River Thames with Canary Wharf that was referred to before it over here and the site is this yellow site We also talked yesterday. I presented the Charles booth map if you remember poverty in London from a century and a half ago What was our 1890s which show in the darker colors in exactly this area? There's the Isle of Dogs and where canary Wharf is today show in the darker areas How deprivation was concentrated a hundred and twenty years ago? We haven't improved very much in that space of time and that's why Many of us have been involved in this field in London have focused on a redevelopment plan or future vision of The city to concentrate development along these axes to the east That's where there's greater concentration of deprivation as you've seen and this is something which has been in the sort of planning Philosophy of London now for a number of years. We happen to have won the Olympics in 2007 for next year we didn't expect to so we actually use the Olympics collectively This is what Andy would have said to kickstart a regeneration of all levels including health of the area Just to locate us. There's London We're in on the east side of the United Kingdom Very strong connections as it happens by rail to what we still call the continent otherwise known as Europe and Therefore a corridor of accessibility which takes us eastwards Through the Thames Valley effectively the whole idea here is to shift development concentrate new opportunities Eastwards to rebalance the city as I described yesterday So this image was a very architectural image is really trying to say what the project is about How do you re-stitch together the social economic and health fabric of the city? So to use an event which only lasts for two weeks and has to be closed because of security issues To actually make it something open and integrate and that's what the master plan is really about the bid document from 2005 Already said and that's one of the reasons perhaps why London actually nearly got in there Was to emphasize the fact that it should be an enduring legacy that it should actually leave America not do what Los Angeles or Atlanta or for that matter Athens did to the local economy I leave hardly anything behind or large debt our model in London has been Barcelona So the whole notion was to actually create a park with a series of facilities, which I'll describe Building on what's there very important building on the DNA of the local area Building on the fact that it's in a massively well integrated place in terms of public transport anyway Not to mention the connections to Europe and the continent and many of the communities that Tony travels was describing yesterday in terms of Immigrant communities very different parts of the world and very many different generations. There's a lot there We win the Olympics 9.3 billion pounds of public money Comes to this area a first chunk of it was used as very important in terms of health and other issues to get rid of the High tension power which crisscrossed the site for the last 50 60 years You could never do that without that sort of upfront money which comes from the public sector It was all being put on the ground therefore you actually have a development footprint You have a very large piece of land owned by the government and owned by and the Altman effectively So the Olympic Park legacy company is a government agency Which is a combination of the mayor and central government which effectively takes over the ownership of this very very large piece of land now because of time We won't go through it in detail But just think of this as a large piece of city with a big big and massive railway station and other connections right at the heart of it a Very beautiful park being created there not just for the games But for afterwards and a whole series of venues actually being built across the site a major stadium of A an aquatic center by the architect Zaha Hadid a velodrome, etc. Etc. But you'll see many more venues, but only for remain that's very very important concept In other words, you use it as a temporary sort of notion. In fact What you see here all these white platforms are the bits of land which have been cleaned up De-polluted and actually are ready for new development not just offices and housing But also other facilities that I'll come to so the idea is that over time something like 15 20 30 years What might happen is that you restitch you build up the facilities to create to fill the gaps in those holes That I said the most important thing though is not just filling the gaps within the site And this is a key issue if I think of Richard Senate's points yesterday, but about integration and complexity How do you connect back to the existing tissue not just physical but social of all the communities that are around and this is very much I think what the OPL sees Objectives which you can see here are it's not just to create More development and more housing and to flog it off to developers It's very much as you can see here to deliver social and economic and environmental benefits And it's interesting to see that only a few weeks ago effectively in September 2011 The notion that sport and healthy living should be very much part of the whole agenda of a Development company of this sort is is quite interesting and I think important So what does this look like and what are they doing in terms of making a difference to the health of the residents? Both who will move in the area, but much more importantly in this wider Area of East London that we've been describing Well, first of all the park in and of itself is an asset the mere fact that there will be a new park of some quality This is a picture taken when Tony Travers and I were there only a few weeks ago This is what this park now looks like it is Incredibly high quality I have to say and it will be of course an asset for everyone who lives around there Not just the residents and that's got to do with exactly the issue of grain Tissue and integration if you can't get there There's no point in having it if this is behind a big wall so to speak or let's call it Referring to Carrie Lam's presentation around a vertical cluster that you can't connect to it wouldn't work in terms of what it's intended to do So I think that's an issue for wider discussion There will be some facilities like the velodrome not just the park which become a place where kids who live in the area Will go cycling. I mean basically English kids don't do a lot of sport. I think compared to others They only win Olympics apparently on sitting down rowing on horseback and on cycles And so it's quite interesting that that's actually what happens So perhaps this will be building on that great natural asset that we have for sitting And even maybe do a bit more. This is the great swimming pool complex by Zaha What is important about this is that if I live there in 10 years time with small kids? They will be going swimming here at the moment in East London. There's no swing pool at all So that will make certainly a difference in terms of what might happen There's an Olympic village, which isn't being built and 50% More or less of this whole complex is what we call affordable housing. That's by law. It's not by Sort of design. So that's an important element and significantly They're not placed in the bad bit of the site Each one of these urban blocks has literally the mix within the block itself as opposed to across the site. So that's Significant and that's why schools and health centers being placed at the middle of this project will be not just venues for the local New inhabitants, but for the people who are there. So this is a sort of vision of what might happen in the next 20 or 30 years Let me conclude with some of the points that Andy would have made which are sort of important here that this sits within a wider Context and that's why here in Carrie Lam, here in Yorkshire was so important, which is political Tony knows that there is a sort of probably rare moment where the national government and local government are Trying to work together in terms of convergence of these sort of big ideas that you see here And the convergence themes are around the notion of creating wealth and reducing poverty very important Supporting healthier lifestyle. So that's in the sort of political DNA of the people running London and central Government and developing successful neighborhood. So just in those three you see an integration between the physical and the social at the heart In many ways of the project. We don't have time to go through this But I think it's interesting to see that what the OPLC is doing is actually If you look at some of these point give children the best start in life reduce a number of people dying prematurely Reduce the number of people's health effects their ability to work etc etc is a series of ambitions and goals Which are there? I'm going to do three more slides and then stop It's Andy's fault if I'm going too long What is it that's being done apart from the physical infrastructure that I've described well There are a lot of sports clubs and people who are being trained Through the Olympic project and a lot of the promotion that comes in with the sponsorship to become coaches and everything Who are living in there and going to work in there and therefore they will stay in the area And I think that will make a difference They're the sports facilities that I've already described but not just in the site but everywhere else and again That will probably make a difference. So Andy would have included Can the London Olympics make East London healthier the answer is yes would say that and How do you measure it and I thought this was interesting if we go back to some of the points that were being made yesterday some of the statistics that Even we at LSE cities and HKU began to look at here If you take these parameters male life expectancy female life expectancy development of a child age five mortality rates, etc Just in the five years since the beginning of this project happened There's already an increase apparently or improvement in terms of male life expectancy Obesity level for children mortality rates from Circulatory diseases for people under 75 and there's still a lot of work to go in terms of female life expectancy And others but probably most importantly is that physical activity in this Very diff try part of London where obesity is high has already improved in these five years So in sense, this is a project which is really trying to change the way Not just how London is designed, but how people's behaviors are actually structured. Thank you very much