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Why have working-class Londoners largely failed to benefit from the legacy of the 2012 Olympics?
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Why have working-class Londoners largely failed to benefit from the legacy of the 2012 Olympics?
<strong>The long read</strong>: After so many other Olympic sites ended up left to rot, London 2012 was supposed to be different. But who has really benefited from this orgy of development?
The “devastating” cyber attack on Hackney Council has exacerbated the “flexibility and resilience” of its finances, councillors have heard.
Is the Olympic Park’s redevelopment still on track? The London Legacy Development Corporation has been accused of not building enough affordable homes on the former London 2012 site. With less than four years before it winds down, can it still deliver on its lofty ambitions? asks Will Ing Advertisement ‘It seems like everything with the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) was set up with good intentions, but somewhere along the way things have been lost,’ says Susan Hall, who chairs the London Assembly’s Budget and Performance Committee. ‘From expensive white-elephant foo...