Glasgow deserves share of London Olympic cash, says SNP candidate

SNP by election candidate David Kerr has vowed to fight for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games to be afforded its share of Olympic regeneration money. Mr Kerr said that Glasgow deserves the same deal as London and that, if elected, he will put pressure on the Treasury to pay Scotland its fair share of regeneration investment around the London 2012 Olympics. He claims spending by Westminster on regeneration around the London Olympics should generate s165m - s33m per annum over the five years to 2012-13 - for Scotland under the Barnett formula. Mr Kerr said: "The Commonwealth Games is as important to Glasgow as the Olympics are to London. "The Scottish Government is putting in 80 per cent of the funding for the Commonwealth Games - but we are doing it without the s33 million a year of regeneration funding that should be coming Glasgow's way."If London can get central funding to regenerate their East End because of the Olympics why should Glasgow not get the Barnett Consequentials from this spending to help regenerate the city following the Commonwealth Games?"

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Handball Arena (2012 Olympics)

Olympic Park in Stratford, East London will be hosted the London Olympics 2012 Handball Games


London's Olympic bid proposed that there would be four arenas in the Olympic Park, but the revised masterplan published in 2006 reduced this to three, with the volleyball being moved to Earls Court Exhibition Centre. The fencing arena was also cancelled, and the fencing will now take place at ExCeL.

The Handball Arena will have 6,000 to 7,000 seats. It will be used for handball preliminaries and quarter finals and modern pentathlon fencing and shooting during the Olympic Games, and for goalball during the Paralympic Games. The handball semi finals and final will be held at the larger Basketball Arena. The Olympic Delivery Authority plans to submit a planning application in September 2008 and complete the building in 2011. Post 2012 it will be changes to become a multi-sport arena for community use, athlete training and small-to-medium scale events. It will be the only permanent indoor arena retained in the Olympic Park, as the Basketball Arena will be relocated.

Basketball Arena (2012 Olympics)

The Basketball Arena for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England will be situated in the Olympic Park in Stratford, East London.

London's Olympic bid proposed that there would be four arenas in the Olympic Park, but the revised masterplan published in 2006 reduced this to three, with the volleyball being moved to Earls Court Exhibition Centre. The fencing arena was also cancelled, and the fencing will now take place at ExCeL.

The Basketball Arena will have 12,000 seats for Olympic basketball and the semi-finals and finals of the Olympic handball, and 10,000 for Paralympic wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby. Concept designs were agreed in June 2008 and a planning application is due to be submitted in November 2008. It will be a temporary venue, and it is hoped that it will be reassembled elsewhere in the UK after the games.

In early October 2008 it was speculated that Wembley Arena could be used as a replacement venue for the preliminary rounds of the 2012 Olympic basketball tournament instead of the Basketball Arena, thus saving up to £90 million but in March 2009 it was confirmed that a new arena will be built in Stratford as originally proposed.

Olympic Hockey Centre (London) 2012

London's Olympic Hockey Centre will be constructed in the Olympic Park at Stratford in East London, England. It will consists of two venues for the Olympic hockey competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics with capacities of 15,000 and 5,000 respectively. The budget for the centre is £19 million. After the games the hockey centre will be scaled down to a 5,000 seat arena and a training pitch and moved north to Eton Manor

Olympic London - Velopark

Leyton East London where London Velopark to be constructed is a cycling centerin England. It will give out as one of the 'Big Five' permanent Olympic venues for the 2012 Games.The Velopark will be located at the northern end of London's Olympic Park.
The financial support for the Velopark was confirmed in February 2005 and the project was planned to go further whether or not London's proposal for the 2012 Summer Olympics was successful.
The capacity of spectator of 6000 rather than 1500 seats in Velopark, which will be used for the Olympics is the outdoor BMX.
In addition to the two Olympic venues the London Velopark will feature a 1.6 km road racing circuit, and a cross-country mountain bike course. The Velopark is planned to be finished in 2011. In 2004, during London's Olympic bid, the estimated cost was £37 million, including £20 million for the velodrome.Since London won the games, the planned size of the velopark has been compact from 34 hectares to 10 hectares. The road and mountain bike circuits will be far smaller than originally proposed, and the promised cycle speedway track will not be built.

Aquatics Centre London, Olympics

The London Aquatics Centre is an interior support with two 50m swimming pools and a 25m diving pool, which will be one of the major venues of the London 2012 Summer Olympics. constructed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Zaha Hadid, the centre is situated in the Olympic Park at Stratford in East London. Its characteristic architecture and curved roof will be the first venue visitors see upon entering the Olympic Park, and are close to the Olympic Stadium.

The centre will be for the Olympic action of swimming, diving, synchronised swimming and water polo final. During the Games it will have a capacity of 17,500, which will be reduced to 2,500 after the Games. It is accepted that the centre will leave a legacy of replacing the pools at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in South London as the UK's most important facility for aquatic sports.

Presently the only Olympic sized swimming pools in the UK are in Sheffield, Leeds, Sunderland, Cardiff and Glasgow, although in addition to London a pool is being constructed in Plymouth. There are however many more 50m pools that do not meet all the criterion to be labelled 'Olympic-sized'.

Construction
Construction started on the 17 July 2008, 2 months ahead of plan and is due to be completed in 2011 by construction firm Balfour Beatty.

Cost
On 8 April 2008 it was accepted that the centre will cost about three times as was originally calculated, totalling about £242m.

Olympic Stadium London - Construction Process

The stadium design was released on 7 November 2007. As a "distinctive 80,000 seat stadium, it will be the attraction for the 2012 Games, hosting the opening and closing ceremonial and the athletics actions, converting down to a 25,000 seat permanent stadium after the Games, when it will become a new home for athletics, combined with other sporting, community and educational uses", LOCOG.


As of June 2009, the stadium's track-and-field arena has been dig out of the soft clay found on the site, around where possible seating or 25k, using concrete "rakers". The natural slope of the land is incorporated into the design, with warm-up and changing areas being dug into a semi-basement position at the lower end. A demountable lightweight steel and concrete upper tier has been built up from this “bowl” to accommodate a further 55,000 viewers, and is nearing conclusion

Olympic Stadium - London

The London Olympic Stadium will be the focus of the 2012 Summer Olympics. The stadium will be situated at Marshgate Lane in Stratford in the Lower Lea Valley and will have a capacity for the Games of just about 80,000 making it for the moment the third-largest stadium in Britain behind Wembley Stadium and Twickenham Stadium. Land preparation for the stadium started in mid-2007, with the official construction start date on 22 May 2008, although support works for the foundation unofficially began 4 weeks ahead of that date.

Location	Stratford, London, Great Britain
Broke ground	2007
Built	(Expected completion 2011)
Operator	Olympic Delivery Authority
Surface	Track & Field (Grass)
Construction cost	£469 Million ($808 million)
Architect	Populous and Sir Peter Cook
Structural engineer	Buro Happold
Services engineer	Buro Happold
Main contractors	Sir Robert McAlpine
Capacity	80,000 (25,000 Post Olympics) [