The Olympic Park Legacy Company's remit may be extended to include the regeneration of the 900-acre Royal Docks and other key east London sites it seems.
Speaking at a London Assembly Economic Development, Culture, Sport and Tourism Committee review of the Olympic Legacy plans, Neale Coleman, the mayor's Olympics adviser said that there was a danger that the OPLC's current remit was "too narrow in scope" if the competing Boroughs were to bring forward an integrated redevelopment of east London post Games.
It all of course makes a deal of sense and has been suggested to me by property people as likely for some time.
However, the OPLC will have a battle on its hands to wrest control of the Royal Docks from competing agencies the London Development Agency and the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation
Coleman said: "There is a difficult judgement to be made. In the initial stages the boroughs did not want to create a new vehicle that would have a wider remit and wanted it to have a clear focus on the park and immediate areas surrounding the park .. But perhaps it should look at the rest of the Lower Lea Valley with, for instance, taking control of the Royal Docks a possible scenario.
"It may be that over time a judgement might be made that if the legacy company develops successfully it will extend its geographical remit."
Elsewhere Coleman did shed light on a number of areas although there appears to be little progress on deciding who will actually own key sites post-Games.
The most amusing interlude occurred when Assembly member Victoria Borwick questioned why the Athletes Village was called a village when it did not have local shops and post offices and all of those other things one associates with a more bucolic vision of English villages.
Coleman briefly appeared to lose the plot as he launched into a tirade about how his neighbours in his street in Islington were mainly commuters into central London but there was still a community spirit in the area.
Borwick then jumped on Coleman's description of the Olympic Park as being most likely to replicate Hampstead Heath by wondering how Hampstead High Street was going to be recreated in Stratford.
Chair Dee Doocey managed to bring order back after a brief flirtation with anarchy among board members and all appeared to agree that as soon as is possible the word "village" should be quietly dropped from descriptions of the athletes' accommodation for the 2012 Games.
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Coleman said a key issue that needed to be addressed in terms of legacy was how the land interests owned by London & Continental Railways, which form the gateway to the park, are brought forward in tandem with development of the Olympic Park, and how housing is created that appeals to families.
He also said the legacy company would shortly need to settle whether or not it wanted to retain the Stadium's 80,000-seat capacity post Games for a significant period as bids to host the Rugby Football and Professional Football World Cups had to be submitted soon.
Coleman also confirmed that the mayor had tasked the OPLC with seeing if a higher education development could be brought to the park and said that Baroness Ford in particular was pushing for as much of the Olympics Park as possible to be up and running and open for use immediately after the Games.
Yes they should extend it. Assuming the Olympics is a success some of these other sites could benefit from some reflected glory