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A half-dead half-empty stadium media center houses and ordinary Londoners who can not afford to be reached with the legacy

The creation of the London 2012 Olympic Park so far has been a model of accuracy and robustness maintenance time budget. No, you're dreaming. The staff of the Olympic Delivery Authority, the agency responsible for the site of East London, ready for the Games has confirmed to the London Assembly plan to use the £ 7.2 billion of books 8.1 billion was awarded to the work.

The landscape and buildings was present, no doubt remains prodigious splashing money - the main stadium, the Olympic Village, including the exotic aquatic center and much more - have long since developed earth itself as the architecture for palpable blame the skeptics Olympics everywhere. Everything seems to go better and better. Now we curl our lips and asks if he can last.

I do not mean the summer festival of sport, but the enlightened vision of urban regeneration who has promised is five, 10 and 20 years beyond. The argument made to justify the huge sums spent in the park is that the Games are just the beginning of a golden age of economic and social renewal in the poorest regions in the compass of the capital. However, you can see the dark clouds on the horizon. Do not fill the sky and yet may be runaway, but they are there and lots of rain.

hangs on the future of the stadium. The recent decision to overturn the agreement they have seen the owners of West Ham United, in partnership with Newham Council has been dignified by the government and the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, in conclusion, in the words the latter, the faffing "around", caused by a series of legal challenges.

Then there are the 8000 new homes is expected to hold the stock over time. Five districts have been mapped and named by the public in advance. The complex planning applications were filed. The first houses in the next Chobham Manor should be completed in 2014, but end up living there? In line with the requirements of the Plan of the new Mayor of London, 35% of homes must be affordable.
This, however, is "affordable" really mean? In London, where accommodation costs are becoming more localized, the future shortage of housing and other benefits in combination with the advent of the so-called government "affordable rent", subsidize cheaper products rather than "social returns" raises the prospect of the next generation of "affordable" houses are out of financial reach of a growing number of households whose housing needs are great in London.