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London Olympic Games (HIC)
Social
Pros
2,800
new affordable homes
Olympic parkland will become 5 new neighbourhoods housing
8,000
Aquatics centre is used by community and schools
Unemployment
overall
fell across London
Cons
Many of new "affordable" homes will be unaffordable to poorest households
Very few jobs were created for local people. Missed an opportunity to train people
People in surrounding boroughs still remain in poverty
Properties for poor were demolished.
450
Housing Association flats were demolished
Economic
Pros
Stratford got a Tube station to help connect the area to the rest of London
The Olympics brought more than
£9bn
of investment to East London
Lloyds TSB estimated the Olympics brought and extra
£10bn
in extra income to the UK economy
Cons
Olympic Stadium is estimated to have cost
£701 million
which is 3 times the original estimate
The total bill for the Olympics was
£8.77bn
of taxpayer money.
£5bn
over budget
Rents and property prices have gone up due to the Olympics leading to some of the poorest not being able to afford to live there.
Environmental
Pros
Many of the grounds have been kept as parkland pen for use to the public.
The stadiums were made out of at least
25%
recycled material
The regeneration project converted
560
acres of contaminated brownfield areas into green areas
4,000
trees,
74,000
plants,
60,000
bulbs and
300,000
wetland plants
Cons
Much wildlife was relocated:
4,000
smooth newts,
100
toads and
300
common lizards.
Many of the materials used for the Olympic Park came from overseas. This meant they produced lots of emissions.
The games produces
3.3
million tonnes of CO2