Games legacy commitment “financial scandal of the century”

2nd January 2015

London’s Conservative party leader Andrew Boff has said that the amount spent on the Olympic Games legacy is the financial scandal of the century, just weeks after George Osborne committed £140m to help to create Olympicopolis, a mixed-use scheme including residential units, retail outlets and arts venues. The conversion of the Olympic Park stadium into West Ham’s football ground is likely to cost at least £200m, it is noted, and the club has only contributed £15m. "I think they are going to get the venues to work but not without an enormous additional input of private and public money. They never thought it through. Legacy was written in every single paragraph before the Games but nobody bloody well thought about it”, said Mr Boff.

Source:   The Times (31/12/14)