Hackney: A Host for 2012
Future Hackney - 2012 and beyond
As a host borough for the 2012 Games, we are seizing this opportunity for Hackney to secure the best legacy possible for our residents, businesses and environment. There are major opportunities for businesses and enterprise, especially with a new neighbourhood in the east of the borough.
| What we said | What we did | What's next |
| The media centres will be at the heart of the new neighbourhood at Hackney Wick. They will provide a lasting employment legacy, which will contribute to a reduction in local levels of worklessness and to the growth of local enterprise and investment. | Hackney fought hard to make sure that media centres stayed in Hackney Wick as permanent buildings when a partial move was threatened. We also fought for better designs for the buildings. We are now confident that the designs offer the basis for a strong digital, media and creative industry legacy. | Hackney will work closely with our partners to ensure that, after the Games are finished in the Autumn of 2012, the buildings will be converted so that they can be used by the creative industries and encourage more employment in the borough. |
| We will work with local businesses and potential tenants to ensure high quality employment space. | Already significant interest has been generated from potential tenants. We have worked with the East London Business Alliance to identify potential space requirements for local creative and media businesses. | We will support the Olympic Park Legacy Company with a marketing plan that will attract a broad range of IT, media and creative industries to this site. |
| Hackney Marshes, the world famous home of grassroots football, will benefit from more than £3million of investment to improve pitch surfaces and make them sustainable in the long term, offer new changing facilities, and attract new users to the Marshes. | Hackney expanded the quality and scope of the original programme of improvements and worked to find £14million of investment capital. | The new facilities on the Marshes will be fully accessible to disabled people and appeal more to women and children. Working closely with the national sporting bodies, we plan to develop other sports too, with state of the art rugby and cricket pitches. |
| A masterplan for Hackney Wick will have a real and positive influence on the regeneration of Hackney Wick, through influencing legacy facilities, infrastructure and investment and directing development. | A draft masterplan has been produced. The London Thames Gateway Development Corporation has committed to major infrastructure investment and investors are now buying space for post production companies. | We will implement plans to tie in with the Olympic Park’s legacy, with a new transport and commercial hub, which will be essential to the success of creative industries in the Wick and media centres. |
Film producer David Puttnam speaking to students on the New Generation London Film, said:
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“The media centres will mean that you can make a serious decision to enter into the world of the media. What I think we’ll be able to do is provide you with a basic skill set and the opportunity to improve those skills.” |
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Page updated: 18 Mar 2010
