Work is continuing to transform the former Olympic Village, with the seventh residential area now finished, including 298 more new homes.

This brings the total number of homes completed and transferred by the Olympic Delivery Authority to the Village's long-term legacy owners, Get Living London and Triathlon Homes, to 1,625.

Plot N02 (298 homes) is the latest to be finished, building on the completion of the previous six plots - N10 (281 homes), N09 (120), N13 (185), N14 (201), N26 North and South (242) and N15 (298). In total, there are now 753 private rental properties, and 872 affordable homes. The first residents moved into East Village in late 2013 and there are now more than 650 apartments and town houses occupied at East Village by families, couples, individuals and sharers.

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Since the end of the Paralympic Games the ODA's development manager, Lend Lease, has been working with contractors to transform East Village from its use during the Games as temporary accommodation for athletes and officials into a brand new neighbourhood complete with 2,818 homes, an Academy, Health Centre, parks and open spaces, a new road network and a wetlands area.

New kitchens have been fitted in every home in the space used to accommodate extra beds during the Games, with temporary partitions removed to create bigger rooms. Painting and decorating, plumbing and electrical work has taken place in every home.

More than 1,600 homes in East Village have now been handed over.

More than 1,000 workers remain on site working with Lend Lease and their contractors to complete the remaining homes, which will be handed over in phases once entire plots are finished during the next quarter with around 300 apartments or town houses in each.

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