Organizers of London's 2012 Olympics on Tuesday submitted their master plan for building new sporting venues, roads and parks for the Games.

The Olympic Delivery Authority's 10,000-page document also includes details of how the facilities in east London will be changed for use after the event.

"This is one of the biggest and most complex planning applications ever prepared in this country and is another key milestone for us on the road to 2012," said Lord Coe, chairman of the London 2012 organizing committee.

There are two main parts of the application: the first is concerned with preparing the 246 hectare (2.5 sq km) site and the second with construction projects for the Olympics and the post-Games legacy for east London.

The application includes plans to construct five permanent sporting venues: the Olympic stadium, aquatics centre, velo park, handball arena and Eton Manor -- and three other temporary venues.

Changes to the plans include moving the international broadcast center and main press centre within the Olympic Park boundary and better integration of the Olympic village with the adjacent Stratford City regeneration development.

Plans also include homes -- of which 50 percent are set to be affordable housing -- and office space.

The application will be considered by a committee including representatives from all London boroughs affected by the plans. The ODA expects a final decision by late summer.

London 2012 bosses are expected to reveal shortly exactly what will happen to the Olympic stadium after the Paralympics Games end in September 2012.

Premier League football club West Ham and third division Leyton Orient have been in talks with the organizing committee to take over stadium in 2013.

Plans are for the 80,000-seater stadium to be reconfigured to a 25,000-seater, a scenario that would not suit Premier League clubs.
 
(Xinhua News Agency February 8, 2007)