The facts
Client: London
Development Agency
Location: London
Services: Programme management,
project management, remediation design, river wall and ground
investigation, environmental consultancy, planning consultancy,
procurement, Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO)
Start/Completion: 2003 - 2009
The project
Capita Symonds provided the LDA with programme and
project management services at the inception of the London 2012
Games programme.
One of the company’s core roles was the programme
management of 13 workstreams including site investigation and
baseline surveys; business relocations; the resultant advanced
enabling works planning applications; and the CPO process. Another
core part of the team’s work was providing advice on sustainability
issues including remediation; ecological conservation consultation;
and means of minimising landfill disposal.
In consultation with the LDA, Capita Symonds also
proposed and/or reviewed a number of key initiatives which resulted
in both time and cost savings including:
- The LDA advising on setting up a combined planning
authority dedicated to the project which resulted in the LDA
developing the Joint Planning Authority Team (JPAT) comprising
representatives from the four boroughs within which parts of the
Park is situated, which accelerated the planning application
process;
- The novel use of Regulation 19 of the EIA
Regulations to enable the original planning application to be
submitted within the IOC bid programme.