This brings the total number of homes finished and transferred by the Olympic Delivery Authority to the Village’s long-term legacy owners, Get Living London and Triathlon Homes, to 1,029.
Plot N14 is the latest plot to be finished, with an additional 201 homes. This builds on the completion of the previous four plots - N10 (281 homes), N09 (120), N13 (185), and N26 North and South (242), and in total now provides 500 market rental properties, and 529 affordable homes. The first residents moved into East Village in late 2013 and there are now more than 350 apartments and townhouses occupied at East Village by families, couples, individuals and sharers.
Since the end of the Paralympic Games the ODA’s development manager, Lend Lease, has been working with contractors to transform East Village from its use during the Games as temporary accommodation for athletes and officials into a brand new neighbourhood complete with 2,818 homes, an Academy, Health Centre, parks and open spaces, a new road network and a wetlands area.
New kitchens have been fitted in every home in the space used to accommodate extra beds during the Games, with temporary partitions removed to create bigger rooms. Painting and decorating, plumbing and electrical work has taken place in every home.
The work to transform the Olympic and Paralympic Village into the new East Village development has included:
Installing 2,818 new kitchens
15,000 rooms being transformed within the homes
6,000 workers working more than six million hours since November 2012, including 2,000 plumbers and electricians
Forty football fields of flooring laid
80km of fibre broadband lines installed
Seven bus stops installed
276 bike storage units installed
Eight kilometres of kerbing installed on the new road network
More than 250 benches installed
Four children’s play areas installed
A major ‘mirror labrynth’ artwork by artist Jeppe Hein installed within the public realm area
Completion of 25 acres of new parks and open space, including 2,500 trees, picnic lawns, flowering lawns, an orchard, and wetland area that links to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park wetland bowl, together forming one of the largest man-made areas of this rare habitat in the UK, with work being carried out before and after the London 2012 Games.
Completion of the Sir Ludwig Guttmann Health and Wellbeing Centre, now open with more than 800 patients registered
Completion of Chobham Academy, open since September 2013 with more than 700 students now attending
More than 1,000 homes in East Village have now been handed over.
More than 2,300 workers remain on site working with Lend Lease and their contractors to complete the remaining homes, which will be handed over in phases once entire plots are finished during the spring with around 300 apartments or townhouses in each.
A management office at 5 Celebration Avenue in East Village is now open for people to come and find out more about the new homes Get Living London and Triathlon Homes have available, from private rented apartments with Get Living London, to shared ownership, social and intermediate rent with Triathlon Homes. People can also find out more information and register their interest at www.eastvillagelondon.co.uk
East Village was last month recognised as the ‘Best New Place to Live’ at the London Planning Awards.
Properties have been checked by an independent certifier to ensure they are of consistent high quality and satisfy the requirements of Get Living London and Triathlon Homes.
Mike Cornelius, the ODA’s Director of Village and Commercial, said:
“The scale of the work to transform the former Olympic and Paralympic athletes’ accommodation has been enormous, and the site is still a hive of activity. We have been working flat out with our contractors to complete and hand over the apartments and townhouses as soon as possible. Each home was individually checked before being signed off, a process that was complex and time-consuming but critically important in ensuring really top-quality new homes at East Village.
“With more than 1,000 homes in this huge project now completed and handed over, East Village is already an exciting, new community and a great place for families, couples and individuals to live.”
Young residents of East Village are among students at Chobham Academy, which opened in September 2013. The first 52 East Village residents have enrolled, taking student numbers above the 700 mark, with more than 100 teaching and support staff. Further Village residents will be joining the school on a phased basis at the start of terms and after half-term breaks. The Sir Ludwig Guttmann Health and Wellbeing Centre, which is providing GP and pharmacy services for East Village and the wider local community, opened in November and now has more than 800 patients registered.
The N14 plot consists of four residential blocks, named after plants found on the East Village site: Samaras Mansions, Asterid Heights, Lunaria House and Festuca House. Get Living London has 90 private rental properties and Triathlon Homes a further 111 affordable homes, available for social rent and shared ownership.
Each of the East Village plots was designed by a different architect to ensure a variety of styles and approaches and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and Haworth Tompkins were responsible for the N14 plot. Lend Lease was responsible for construction and post-Games transformation of N26.
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