Jeremy Beeton

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Jeremy Beeton
Director, Government Olympic Executive
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Maximising the legacy of London 2012
6 May 2009
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Build Phase

• On track and on budget
• 1/3 of ODA programme complete
• All major venues on or ahead of schedule
• Stadium (May 08 2.5 months early)
• Village (June 08)
• Aquatics centre (July 08 2 months early)
• Energy centre (August 08)
• March-April 2009
• Media/Broadcast centre (last of Big Five)
• Velopark (Fastest track ever)

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Olympic Park

• 550 hectares, equivalent to Hyde Park
• Twelve rail lines, transport links to rival
  anywhere in UK
• Seven minutes by high speed train to Central
  London
• Completely remediated site

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Olympic Park plan
Velopark
Hockey Centre
Basketball Arena
Media Centre
Athletes village
Handball Arena
Aquatics Centre
Olympic Stadium
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Main Venues
Olympic Stadium
80,000 seats opening and closing ceremonies and
athletics events Commitment to deliver a
sustainable athletics and community
sports-for-all legacy (inc 25,000 seats)
Aquatics Centre
17,500 seat Zaha Hadid design to mark the Park
entrance 2,500 seat legacy venue for elite and
community use
Olympic Village
Will house up to 17,000 competitors and 1,000
officials In legacy, 4,000 homes, at least 30
will be affordable
IBC/MPC Expected to be in excess of 5,000 job
opportunities with a vibrant and economically
sustainable mixed-use development.
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Off-Park venues
Broxbourne, Herts - White Water Canoeing Earls
Court Indoor Volleyball Eton Dorney -
Rowing Eton Manor Wheelchair tennis /
Paralympic archery ExCeL Boxing, Judo etc.
Greenwich Park Equestrian / Pentathlon
Hadleigh Farm, Essex Mountain biking Horse
Guards Parade Beach Volleyball Hyde Park
Swimming / Triathlon Lord's Cricket Ground -
Archery
North Greenwich (O2) Basketball,
Gymnastics Regent's Park Road cycling Royal
Artillery Barracks - Shooting Weymouth and
Portland - Sailing Wimbledon - Tennis
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Maintaining ambition

• New economic climate for the Games
• Priority is to deliver on time and on budget
• Downturn has redefined purpose of the Games
• Provide a vital shot in the arm for the economy,
  right at the moment we need it most
• To do this, must ensure that London 2012
• Delivers value for public money
• Benefits the whole country
• Brings about lasting change

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Government Olympic Executive

• Only body overseeing the entire Olympic project
• Responsibilities
• Ensuring the Games are on time, on budget and
  benefit the whole of the UK
• Project cash flow
• Identifying and solving problems
• Guaranteeing value for public money
• Ensuring accountability to Parliament and the
  public
• Safeguarding and maximising the value of the
  Governments investment

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Delivering a lasting legacy

• Recent Olympic Games
• Lack of focus on sports participation
• No improvement in local skills
• Little or no urban renewal
• Lack of focus on sustainability
• Manchester Commonwealth Games, 2002
• The Inclusive Games
• 10,000 volunteers 20 continued
• London 2012
• Legacy set our bid apart
• Action Plan published early - June 2008

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Legacy what and how?

• 75p in every spent on legacy
• Regeneration of East London
• And ensure that the whole of the UK benefits
• Legacy Action Plan (LAP) focused on key areas of
• Regeneration of East London
• Business and employment
• Sustainability
• Young people
• Sport

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1. Regeneration of East London

• Five world class sporting venues
• 10-12,000 new mixed tenure homes, with a target
  of 35 affordable
• Three new primary schools, a secondary school,
  and a school in the stadium
• New Stratford City shopping centre and business
  district
• Unrivalled transport links
• 326m project to be in place by Jan 2011
• Doubling of capacity at Stratford regional
  station, including a high-speed Eurostar line

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2. Businesses and Employment

• Games will directly award 6bn worth of contracts
  through 75,000 business opportunities
• CompeteFor Giving UK businesses access to
  contracts
• Huge jobs and skills opportunities
• 48-hour jobs brokerage in five host boroughs
• Workforce will peak at 11,000 in next twelve
  months
• 30,000 will help build Park and Village by 2012
• 350 construction apprenticeships on site
• 100,000 contract jobs to stage games
• 6,700 jobs in wider visitor economy
• Aim to reduce worklessness by 70,000 20,000 in
  host boroughs
• Visit Britain estimates tourism benefits at
  2.1bn

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3. Sustainability

• Olympics and Paralympics to be the most
  sustainable of modern times
• Park will set new standards of sustainable
  development
• On track to meet London 2012 Sustainability Plan
• Build continues to exceed 90 target for
  recycling of demolition materials
• 57 material delivered by rail access by
  waterway soon
• Breaking new ground First Games (or major event)
  to calculate a carbon footprint for entire
  project, in order to minimise impact
• Will create a long-term legacy of environmental
  improvements, behavioural change, and knowledge
  transfer

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4. Young people

• Tens of thousands more young people giving time
  to local communities and participating in 2012
  cultural activities
• Thousands of schools, colleges, universities etc.
  inspiring young through Olympic and Paralympic
  values
• Open up sporting opportunities for young people
  like never before
• 100m to fund five hours sport per week for
  5-16s
• 140m Free Swimming scheme for under 16s Taken
  up by almost 300 local authorities

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5. Sport

• GOE promise to create world leading sporting
  nation
• Goal of two million people more active by 2012
• Aim of fourth in Olympic medal table Second in
  Paralympic
• 600m investment in elite sport
• 300m from lottery fund
• 250m from HMG
• 50m from Team 2012 private sector scheme

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Holding us to account

• Delivering value for money
• Continuous cycle of NAO reviews and PAC reports
• Continuous scrutiny from OGC, Select Committee,
  PQs etc
• International Olympic Committee inspections
• April 09
• Transformation is nothing short of astounding
• The area will be a great legacy to the people of
  London and the UK
• Olympic Legacy Company
• Unrelenting press and public interest from start
  to finish
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Holding us to account

• Public scrutiny
• 2,655 questions or letters from members of the
  public, parliament and organisations from Nov
  07Nov 08
• Thet equals an average of over 220 a month
• Major public consultation ongoing around the
  site, the five boroughs and across east London
• Series of problem-solving summits
• Hundreds of thousands have signed up for
  information through www.london2012.com  

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The role of NGBs

• Sport NGBs
• Will deliver our ambition to make the UK a world
  leading sporting nation and get two million more
  people active
• Half a billion s available over next four years
• Participation must be rooted in high-performance
  delivery
• Coaching
• At least 50m invested in to the coaching system
• Recruit into Coaching 10,000 new volunteer
  coaches from 70 most deprived areas by 2011
• Major events
• NGBs also responsible for major events,
  showcasing UK (e.g. Twenty20 World Cup)

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London 2012 Already delivering...

• Jobs and skills
• More than 3,300 currently employed on site (Jan
  09)
• 23 from host boroughs One in ten ex-unemployed
• Business
• 1/2 the business contracts to UK firms outside
  London, 2/3 of which SMEs
• Personal Best
• Aims to help 20,000 disadvantaged volunteers into
  work
• Cultural Olympiad
• Launched 2008 650 cultural events across the UK
• International Inspiration
• 23m programme to help children in developing
  world into better lives through sport
• Twelve million children in 20 countries by 2012

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Economic Gold

• Leveraging change in London and across UK
• Serving as a catalyst across a broad range of
  sectors being challenged by the current downturn
  (Media, hospitality, sport, leisure, tourism
  etc)
• Delivering a legacy of jobs and skills for other
  major projects of national importance (Crossrail,
  Stratford City, Kings Cross etc)
• Leaving a lasting sporting legacy from children
  in the developing world to elite UK athletes
• Building a world class, sustainable and
  prosperous neighbourhood in what has been one of
  the most deprived areas of the UK