Department for Communities and Local Government

• Regeneration
• Olympics legacy

Regeneration and economic growth

Olympics legacy

East London has been long established as London's focus for growth and regeneration. It is at the centre of both one of the largest collections of land available for London's continued growth and has large concentrations of severe deprivation.

In his first major speech as Prime Minister, David Cameron set out his Olympic legacy aspiration:

"Make sure the Olympics legacy lifts East London from being one of the poorest parts of the country to one that shares fully in the capital's growth and prosperity."

One of the core aims of London's successful bid was to use the investment required for the Olympic Games to help expand and accelerate the renewal of East London over the longer term.

This renewal takes three forms:

• economic renewal to create a new successful and growing business economy
• environmental renewal to improve the quality of East London as a place to live and work, and
• a renewed commitment from the Mayor and the East London Boroughs of Newham, Waltham Forest, Barking and Dagenham, Tower Hamlets, Greenwich and Hackney to tackle the factors such as low educational attainment and life expectancy that have prevented East Londoners enjoying a quality of life that those in other parts of London take for granted.

In this section

• What the Olympic legacy means for East London
• What the Department is doing