Olympic Park | Site Description
East Village, 2020
The East Village site, formerly the Athlete’s Village, is a new neighbourhood located on the edge of the Olympic Park and close to Westfield Shopping Centre. The first residents moved to East Village in 2013. East Village is next to Chobham Manor, the first of five neighbourhoods being built in the Olympic Park as part of the Legacy Communities Scheme (LCS).
East Village and Chandos are in the Borough of Newham, which is one of the most ethnically diverse boroughs in the UK. According to the Index of Multiple Deprivation, East Village residents are within the 3rd most deprived decile in the UK. Although recent moves to the ward of Stratford and New Town (in which East Village is located), have resulted in an increase in employment, the ward and Newham as a whole continue to struggle with long-term unemployment and deprivation.
Further information
Changing Landscapes: Four Superdiverse City Wards; Stratford and New Town, Newham, (London). Working Papers in Translanguaging and Translation (WP. 8).) McGlynn, C. (2015).
More information found here.
How prosperous do people in the Olympic Park feel?
In 2017, households in the Olympic Park research site (East Village and Chandos) were surveyed to find out how prosperous people feel. The survey asked questions about the factors that people said were important to their prosperity in the 2015 research. The survey asked questions about livelihood security, housing and work, the opportunities and public services people have access to, how they feel about the future and their local community, inclusion, fairness and whether they feel they have a voice in local decision-making.
The survey results and some secondary data were used to create the UK’s first citizen-led Prosperity Index, which compares the levels of prosperity in the Olympic Park to the average for Greater London. Below is the Headline Indicator Scorecard for the Olympic Park which shows the results using a 10 point scale where 1 is low (red), 5 is the Greater London average (yellow) and 10 is high (green). For example, an Index score of 2.1 for Real Household Disposable Income means the Olympic Park research site has a higher than average percentage of households reporting very low levels of monthly disposable income after taxes, housing costs, utility bills and debt repayments have been made. Whereas an Index score of 7.0 for Work-Life Balance means that a higher percentage of people in the Olympic Park research site are working less than 49 hours per week and are satisfied with their work-life balance than the Greater London average.
Information about the measures in the Prosperity Index and how it is compiled can be found here.
Olympic Park Prosperity Index Scorecard based on household survey in 2017. Institute for Global Prosperity, published 2019.