The southern part of the Park will focus on retaining the Games spirit, with riverside gardens and areas for markets, events, cafes and bars in legacy. The landscape and public realm contract includes hard and soft landscape works, tree planting and the construction of the concourse which will link all the venues, entrances and parklands.

The work, on track to start in the New Year, will also include lighting, irrigation and drainage and delivering the London 2012 Garden stretching for half a mile between the Aquatics Centre and Olympic Stadium and celebrating centuries of British passion for gardens and plants.

The contractor will also deliver the Great British Garden, which two amateur gardeners are helping to design after their competition entries won a public vote. 

The northern area of the Park will use the latest green techniques to manage flood and rain water while providing quieter public space and habitats for hundreds of existing and rare species from kingfishers to otters. Bam Nuttall is already delivering the northern section of parklands and assembling a team of specialist subcontractors and suppliers.

The ODA is working with the Olympic Park Legacy Company to ensure the parklands fit into the Legacy Masterplan Framework - a spatial plan for the development of the Olympic Park site after the 2012 Games which will include the long-term management and maintenance of the parklands.