£10m clinic for Newham shelved until after Games

PLANS for a £10million community health centre to be built as part of the Olympic village have been shelved due to the credit crunch, the Standard has learned.

A super-surgery, or polyclinic, to serve the increasing population of Newham will not be built until after the Games.

The clinic has become the latest casualty of the funding crisis to hit the Olympic village. Australian developer Lend Lease has struggled to raise its share of the original £1billion cost of the project.

This has also seen the Olympic Delivery Authority slash one third of the planned apartments.

It said the long-term developer of the village would have a legal obligation under the "section 106" planning requirement to build the health centre at a minimum size of 2,800 square metres.

An ODA spokesperson said: "There remains a commitment to provide permanent healthcare facilities."

A spokeswoman for Newham PCT said they were "disappointed".