As part of their A Level studies on urban regeneration, Upper Sixth Geography students enjoyed a fascinating trip to the Olympic Park in East London to learn about its sustainability and legacy plan.
During the trip, the tour guides explained how the most polluted location in Europe had been turned into the amazing Queen Elizabeth Park which hosted the 2012 London Olympics. Students were told how the athlete’s village now houses thousands of local people, and how the structure of the stadium was made of recycled North Sea gas piping.
The group then travelled to Canary Wharf, where they were able to visualise the contrast in the landscape, comparing how it looked now, to how it would have looked prior to the London Dockland Development Plan of the late 1980s. Finally, on to Newham in East London, one of the boroughs in the UK with the highest levels of multiple deprivation to assess the success of regeneration plans in that location.