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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.

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.

Tottenham Hotspur's lawyers have sent requests for information to the parties involved in awarding the Olympic Stadium to West Ham United after the Games.

Despite earlier reports, the north club denied that it had launched legal proceedings against the groups but said it will "determine its next step as and when it receives a response".

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.

A biomedical research charity is planning to make an offer to take over a large chunk of the Olympics Park post-Games.

The Wellcome Trust is looking at making a bid of £1billion to the Olympic organisers in the hope of buying land including the stadium, media centre and aquatics centre and building a science and technology hub.

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.

The decision on who will be the future Olympic Stadium tenants will be made tomorrow, according to the Olympic Park Legacy Company.

There has been speculation that West Ham have already won the bid ahead of rivals Tottenham, but the OPLC have confirmed that the preferred bidder will not be decided until a vote when the board meets on Friday.

The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park hit another milestone this week.

The Olympic Park Legacy Company has invited formal expressions of interest from organisations interested in operating the Aquatics Centre and Multi-Use Arena after the Games. Interested parties now have six weeks to bid to run the venues.

It will be a straight fight between West Ham and Tottenham for the use of the Olympic Stadium after 2012.

The Olympic Park Legacy Company announced this afternoon it is to hold final negotiations with the two football clubs having considered a shortlist of proposals.

The Olympic site will be renamed the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park following the 2012 Games. It was announced this week by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt that the Queen had given her consent for the park to bear her name.

The new name, which will come into effect when the park reopens to the public in 2013, aims to build on the royal family's long association with the Games.

An Olympic debt of nearly £400million could hold back east London's economic development, a London Assembly committee has warned.

The committee, which scrutinises financial aspects of the Games, revealed it has grave concerns over the abolition of the London Development Agency and what happens to the money that body owes to Government.

The Olympic Park will be renamed the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park following the 2012 Games.

It was announced today by the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympic, Media and Sport, that Her Majesty The Queen has given her consent for the park to bear her name.

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.

The Olympic Games are still over two years away but planning for what will happen on the Park after 2012 is well underway.

The Olympic Park Legacy Company was set up last year to oversee the long-term development of the area and its chairwoman, Baroness Ford, recently gave evidence to a House of Commons select committee about its plans.

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.

London Development Agency executives have denied responsibility for failing to notice a £159.8million "black hole" in the Olympic land budget.

A KPMG report released last week revealed that the financial controls and documentation kept on land acquisition payments for the Olympic site were "inaccurate" and "generally inadequate".