These open spaces will provide a colourful and festival atmosphere during the Games and will become the largest new urban park in the UK for more than 100 years.
More than 4,000 trees will be planted across the Olympic Park and Olympic Village, along with 300,000 wetlands plants and hundreds of thousands of plants and bulbs in varied parklands, including wooded hills, meadows, ponds, lawns, gardens and wet woodlands.
There will also be ‘hanging gardens’ 10m above the ground on the huge footbridge that links the new Stratford City development with the Park.
A tree-lined road in the north of the Park has been modelled on The Mall and Birdcage Walk next to St James’s and Hyde Park, with distinctively designed lights, bollards and traffic management so visitors feel like they are within the Park.
Olympic Delivery Authority Chief Executive David Higgins said: ‘We are cleaning up industrial land and creating the green backdrop for the London 2012 Games that in legacy will become the UK’s largest new urban park in over a century.
‘Inspired by the original Victorian parks, the meadows, gardens, woods and river walks in this new “great Park” will create a fantastic public space for people and wildlife right at the heart of the transformation of east London.’
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