The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, Communities Secretary Hazel Blears and Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell have unveiled plans for the legacy of the Olympic Park after the 2012 Games.

The vision, developed in conjunction with the five host boroughs, is of a vibrant, thriving district of new communities surrounded by parklands and reclaimed waterways with sporting, educational and cultural facilities.

The plans, set out proposals to build 10,000 new homes of the highest quality in addition to those in the Olympic Village. Provision of an educational offer matching the best in London includes three new primary schools, a secondary school and a sports academy in the Olympic Stadium.

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The plans would also deliver 10,000 new jobs on top of those to be provided at Stratford City, attracting media and other businesses to a new hub around the media and broadcast centre in Hackney Wick and creating a new world class Olympic university there as well. Both translate into a clear boost for local prosperity and a signal of the area's new importance in a 21st century London.

At the heart of the Olympic Park will be a world-class athletics stadium capable of hosting major international athletics championships and other potential sporting and leisure events, including concerts. In addition to the location of a new secondary school in the stadium, there are plans for it to house the National Skills Academy for sports and leisure industries as well as a centre for the English Institute of Sport.

Other sporting venues, including the Aquatics Centre and Velodrome, will be retained for community and elite sporting use and for staging major events. They will be complemented by a range of new facilities for sports in and around the Park, such as football, hockey, tennis and mountain biking.

(CD/JM)