London Development Agency A Sustainable Olympic Legacy

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London Development AgencyA Sustainable Olympic
Legacy

• Tom Russell
• Group Director, Olympic Legacy Directorate

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Overview

• Legacy and Sustainability
• The role of the legacy directorate
• Dealing with sustainability
• Key next steps

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Legacy and Sustainability

• Sustainability at the very core of the London
  2012 promise
• Legacy also a principal driver
• A positive conjunction Sustainable development!
• But Sustainable development is not self defining
• A truly sustainable development cannot stop at
  the red line and cant be purely physical

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The Legacy Directorates role

• To lead the process of definition and delivery of
  this sustainable development project through..
• A comprehensive, complex and multifaceted work
  programme
• Intensive work with communities, delivery
  partners and stakeholders
• Aligning around a broadly agreed vision for the
  park and surrounding area

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Dealing with Sustainability

• Sustainability is our main integrative cross
  cutting work stream
• Separately resourced with a full time team
• Defined work programme across and within all the
  legacy directorates programmes and projects
• At the early stages of clearly specifying how
  legacy will need to deliver against a range of
  environmental, economic and social objectives
• Building on a solid platform of existing work,
  commitments and the real financial and physical
  parameters that exist on the project

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Key Next Steps

• The LMF process will be seeking to define key
  sustainability deliverables for the project
• Also a central and exciting narrative of what
  this development is about and for where does it
  fit in Londons ecosystem?
• A truly catalytic development must push its scope
  outside the red line The role of the Strategic
  Regeneration Framework

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London Development AgencyOlympic Legacy An
Overview

• Geoff NewtonDirector, Olympic Opportunity

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Overview

• A broad overview of the Legacy Directorate
• Socio-economic and sport programmes
• Land delivery and development planning
• Over to Shaun for Q and A

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The London Development Agency

• We are the Mayor's agency responsible for driving
  London's sustainable economic growth.
• It's our job to ensure that London remains a
  global success story and a truly exemplary
  sustainable world city. To help us deliver this
  we work with partners from industry, the public
  and voluntary sectors. In addition to driving
  forward equality, health and sustainability our
  work is prioritised by four themes
• Places and infrastructure
• Supporting People
• Encouraging Business
• Marketing London

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LDA Olympic and Paralympic Games

• Physical regeneration
• Delivered the land for Games
• Relocated businesses, residents and other uses
• Enabling works including remediation and
  powerlines
• Economic and social benefits working with
  partners
• Promoting the Capital as the most diverse,
  welcoming city in the world, to encourage tourism
  and inward investment
• Getting London business fit to supply the Games
• Realising job, training and volunteering
  opportunities
• Using the Games to develop Cultural and Sports
  legacy
• Relationship with ODA and LOCOG

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Olympic Legacy Work Programme
Mayors Economic Development Strategy
Places Infrastructure
People
Marketing Promotion
Enterprise
1.Support delivery of London Plan
2.Improve the infrastructure for Londons future
growth development
3. Deliver healthy, sustainable, high quality
communities environments
4.Tackle barriers to employment
5.Reduce disparities in the labour market
6.Address the impacts of concentration of
disadvantage
7.Address the barriers to start-up, growth
competitiveness
8.Maintain Londons position as a key enterprise
trading location
9.Improve the skills of the workforce
11.Ensure a coherent approach to marketing
promoting London
12.Coordinate effective marketing promotion
across London
13.Maintain develop London as a visitor
destination
10.Maximise productivity innovation potential
of Londons enterprises
Deliver Olympic Park and all venues on time, to
specification, and providing for a sustainable
legacy
Achieve sustained improvement in UK sport before,
during and after the Games, in both elite
performance and grassroots participation
Maximise economic, social, health and
environmental benefits of the Games for the UK,
particularly through regeneration and sustainable
development in East London
Level 0 Programme Olympic Sub-Objectives
Land Delivery
Employment Skills Benefits
Tourism Business Benefits
Culture
Olympic Park and Lower Lea Legacy
Greater Sports Participation
Level 1 Sub- Programme
Land Assembly
Employment Skills Progression into Work
International Promotion
Business Opportunities Support
Land Preparation
Culture
Greater Sports Participation
Legacy Masterplan Framework
5 Borough Employment Business Programmes


Business Planning Governance Structures
LDA Development Strategy
LLV Regeneration Strategy
Relocations
Remediation
Support for Cultural Olympiad
Level 2 Projects
Sport Legacy Plan for London
East London Business Place
Personal Best
Events for London
Tourism Business Support (Stratford)
LegacyVenues
Olympic Park Development Platforms
Olympic Fringe Sites
Wider LLV Development and Connectivity
LLV Socio-economic Interventions
Offsite Developments
Pan-London Job Brokerage
Building the Visitor Welcome
LEGEND
Local Job Brokerage
CompeteFor
Active Workplace
LDA FUNDED / DELIVERED
Land Acquisition/ Compensation
Pan-London Construction Training
East London Tourism Development
Supply London
Sports Technical Officials
Local Construction Training
Stadium
Three Mills Sugar House Lane
Stadium Zone
Social Infrastructure
LDA FUNDED / EXTERNALLY DELIVERED
Aquatics
Games Related Sector Specific Training
Workspace Study
London Business Network Leon Clarke
Aquatics Zone
Emerging Markets
Summer of Sport
Velopark
Stratford City
Economic Action Planning
Bow Island
EXTERNALLY FUNDED / DELIVERED
Arena 3
Employer Accord
Business Link IDB
Stratford Town Centre
Promoting Marketing London
Joblink Employability Programme
Winter Sport Program
Stratford High Street South
IBC / MPC
Stratford High Street
Local Legacy
Relocatables
Clays Lane
Inward Investment - Invest 2012
LLV Growth Sector Training
London Leisure Academy
Eton Manor
Leyton
Pudding Mill Lane
Lea River Park
Community Hub Network (linked to CSP)
Park
Hackney Wick Fish Island
Hackney Wick
Connectivity Study
Olympic Village
LDA Olympic Opportunities Fund Projects
Town Planning
Utilities
Structures, Bridges Highways
Communications and Community Engagement
Sustainability and Health (climate change, waste,
biodiversity, inclusion and healthy living)
Equality and Diversity
Crime, Disorder, Community Safety
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Economic and Social Priorities

• LDA is a key partner in delivering the 2012
  sustainability plans health and inclusion
  aspirations. Businesses and communities need to
  be brought into the opportunities offered by 2012
  and beyond if it is to be genuinely sustainable
• Deliver employment and skills benefits across
  London through co-operation between private and
  public sectors
• Target a reduction of 70,000 in worklessness
  across the capital (20,000 in the 5 Host
  Boroughs)
• Focus on most disengaged, using the Games as a
  catalyst improve workforce diversity
• Support Londons SME / BAME businesses in
  developing their capability and accessing Olympic
  contract opportunities
• Deliver a better skilled and capable community,
  well positioned to benefit from job opportunities
  before, during and after the Games
• Develop and deliver an extensive community and
  business engagement programme
• Promote Tourism and Inward investment
  opportunities
• Optimise the opportunities for culture and sport

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Size of the Prize

• 10-12,000 sustainable jobs in Olympic Park in
  legacy part of up to 50,000 new jobs arising
  from redevelopment of Stratford City and wider
  Lower Lea
• Jobs created in the lead up to / during the Games
  include
• Average of 8000 construction jobs a year peak of
  18/20000 in 2010
• 2,600 paid staff employed by LOCOG
• Over 100,000 contracted staff employed by
  suppliers to LOCOG for the Olympic Games, and
  25,000 for the Paralympics
• 70,000 volunteering opportunities
• 7,000 temporary jobs due to indirect benefits
  (e.g. tourism)
• Substantial number of Olympic contract and
  sub-contract opportunities

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Overview of main socio economic programmes

• Employer leadership and engagement
• The Employer Accord
• CompeteFor/London Business Network
• Improved employment and skills provision
• Sector Training initial focus on construction
• LDA Opportunities Fund
• Local Employment and Training Framework
• Personal Best
• Effective outreach and engagement
• Job brokerage and pre-employment training
• Pan-London job brokerage network
• City Strategy Pathfinders
• Working with big opportunity Get set London
  Roadshow

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Some headline achievements to date

• Over 450 (16) local people and a total of 1,324
  (47) Londoners employed on the Olympic Park
  construction site, a rise of 335 since Dec 07
• 338 (52) London companies have already won work
  supplying the Olympic Delivery Authority and of
  these three quarters are small/medium size
  businesses and nearly a quarter are local to the
  Olympic Park
• Approximately 2,400 people have received
  employment support in the five host boroughs and
  of those 470 (20) have gone on to secure work as
  a direct result of this help
• The establishment of a pan London job brokerage
  network with a central team of 6
• The launch of the award winning CompeteFor
  business brokerage system for the games with
  approximately 6,000 London suppliers already
  registered on the system

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Construction focus

• At peak 20,000 construction jobs to build the
  park, venues, village and Stratford City
  developments
• Working with ODA to map construction workforce
  demand
• Working with ODA / Construction Skills / LSC to
  plan response including National Skills Academy
  for construction investment of 38m ? 2012
• 5 Host Borough construction training programme
  supporting basic construction skills and site
  readiness (3.6m ? 2009)
• Eton Manor plant training centre (Olympic Park)
  open
• Waltham Forest training centre in development
• Pan London construction Employer Accord programme

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Personal Best
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London Development AgencyOlympic Legacy An
Overview

• Gareth BlackerDirector, Olympic Legacy
  Development

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LDA Legacy Client

• London Development Agency Olympic Legacy
  Directorate
• Legacy Masterplan Framework
• Development Strategy
• Business Planning
• Strategic Regeneration Framework
• Olympic Opportunities / Legacy Opportunities

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Catalyst for Regeneration
Long-term regeneration of the Olympic and
Paralympic Games Catalyst for regenerationNew
jobsNew homesRemediation of brownfield
landEnvironmental improvementsInfrastructural
improvements
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Regeneration Priority
LDA Corporate Plan to create a sustainable
world city based on strong long-term economic
growth, social inclusion and environmental
improvement Thames Gateway A regional and
national priority area for regeneration and
growthLower Lea Valley Strategic priority for
investment and regeneration
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Legacy Masterplan Framework Scope

• Core Area
• Olympic Park boundary
• Beyond Legacy Transformation
• Wider Area
• Olympic Fringe masterplans
• Strategic Regeneration Framework
• Area of influence social infrastructure,
  development scenarios, transport routes, urban
  design principles etc.

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OLYMPICS 2012
Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012
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LEGACY TRANSFORMATION 2012-2014
Legacy Transformation 2012-2014
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LEGACY 2015
Legacy 2015
Illustrative Legacy Masterplan included in 2007
planning applications
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Olympic Legacy Sustainable Development

• Ongoing workstreams
• The Legacy Masterplan Framework
• Sustainability in Design
• The Development Strategy
• Maximising Sustainable Development opportunities
• Business Planning
• Sustainability opportunities not costs
• Governance
• Sustainable management and ownership
• Sustainable Development principles should
  underpin all of these

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Future Challenges

• Engagement with
• Communities
• Client groups
• Delivery Partners and stakeholder
• Co-ordination and integration of multiple
  programmes across multiple partners
• Regeneration requires integration of socio
  economic legacy with physical legacy
• Understanding and meeting target groups needs