The Greenwich Peninsula is one of the borough's key development sites.
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Major new transport links have been secured with the opening of North Greenwich Station and the Jubilee Line underground extension.
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A new hotel, shops, yacht club, multiplex and new park have all been built.
The award-winning Millennium Village is one of the major developments on the Peninsula. It is a 178,000-square metre (44-acre) sustainable development comprising about 3,000 new dwellings. Around 900 of these dwellings are affordable units.
Largest mixed use development project
In 2004 outline permission was granted for a very exciting large mixed use urban development project on the Peninsula.
The application for the project is the largest submitted in Europe and covers 1.4million square metres (346 acres) of development. In addition to retaining the Dome – now re-named the O2 – it provides:
- a 26,000 capacity arena
- sports, leisure and retail outlets in the Dome
- over 3,800 affordable dwellings
- over 10,000 new homes, including student and special-needs housing
- over 3,000 square metres of office space
- a new business park
- community uses including new schools and health provision
- 194,200 square metres (48 acres) of open space
- 300- and 500-bedroom hotels
- 25,000 jobs in commercial and retail enterprises.
The O2 opened in July 2007.
The development of the area will also include schools and health facilities, transport improvements, and arrangements for local labour and employment.
London 2012
The O2 (formerly known as the Dome) played a key role in the successful bid to host the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.