London 2012 blog

Although an employee of the London Borough of Newham, I have been working at the ODA Planning Decisions Team (PDT) for about six months on the Stratford City development.

In almost all cases, the either the PDT or ODA Planning Committee make the decision on planning applications within the Olympic Park and Stratford City site. Any planning applications that are not key to the delivery of the Games (for example, the shopping centre development) are passed back to Newham Council to make a decision.

The Stratford City site is broken into seven zones and I am most closely involved with the Zone 1 part of the site, being developed by Westfield. This contains the 140,000m² retail centre as well as the development of offices, residential, leisure, community and hotel uses.

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