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Naming rights for the Olympic Stadium, Aquatics Centre and Multi-use Arena are up for grabs after the official launch of the bidding process.

The Olympic Park Legacy Company is looking for organisations to associate their brands with the venues through naming rights and other sponsorship deals.

The future of the Olympic Stadium should be known by next May with bids from interested parties being invited from today.

The Olympic Park Legacy Company is seeking tenants to use the Stadium, which will be reduced to 60,000 seats after next year's Games, for a range of sporting, cultural and commercial events.

Key sites on the Olympic Park have attracted private sector interest, says the company charged with disposing of the 2012 infrastructure.

The Press Centre and Broadcast Centre buildings and the first residential neighbourhood to be developed after the Games had sparked inquiries by the closing date on Friday.

The devil will be in the detail when the future of the Olympic Stadium is finally decided.

That was the message from the Olympic Park Legacy Company's chief executive Andrew Altman and chairman Baroness Ford when questioned by the London Assembly this morning.

The "most important regeneration project in 25 years" has moved a step closer after planning applications were made for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Family housing, transport links and open spaces are at the heart of the application lodged today by the Olympic Park Legacy Company for 64 hectares of the site that will be the centrepiece of next year's Games.

The Olympic Park Legacy Company has issued invitations for designers to create London's newest public space.

Architects, landscape architects, engineers and designers are being sought to contribute ideas for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which will open to the public in 2013. Plans include two visitor centres and a playground.

There's just one week left for people to make their mark on London's history by suggesting names for five new neighbourhoods to be built on the Olympic Park.

The "Your Park, Your Place" scheme was launched in March, and names suggested so far include Redgravia, Hoy Gateway and Olympic Park Hill.

People can leave their mark on history by suggesting names for five new neighbourhoods to be built on the Queen Elizabeth Country Park.

A new initiative, launched today by the Olympic Park Legacy Company, is seeking ideas for the estates that will eventually accommodate up to 8,000 new homes on the site.

The Olympic Park is to share a postcode with Walford, the fictional borough of east London in the BBC soap EastEnders.

Royal Mail's Address Management Unit, which manages a database of over 1.75 million UK postcodes, has created the new E20 postcode to accommodate the Olympic Park site which falls across four London boroughs.

The legacy use of the Olympic Broadcast and Media Centres are causing the most concern for the team charged with making a commercial success of the venues after the 2012 Games.

Baroness Ford and Andrew Altman, chair and chief executive of the Olympic Park Legacy Company, made the admission when they were questioned by the London Assembly this morning.

Legacy has been the watchword of London's Olympic project but up until now it's been rather a vague term.

That's set to change within the next month when the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC), the organisation charged with developing the use of the park after 2012 , publishes its revised masterplan.

Work to transform the Olympic Park into a community facility following the 2012 Games faces a shortfall of £450million.

Although construction of the site is ongoing scrutiny has already started on the cost of its legacy, with the likelihood taxpayers will foot the bill.

The 2012 Olympics promised to leave a lasting legacy for east London and the man charged with overseeing the delivery is confident it's an opportunity that won't be wasted.

Andrew Altman is chief executive of the Olympic Park Legacy Company, set up to ensure the facilities and infrastructure in Stratford are not left to rot when the Games finish.