With a capacity of 80,000, the Olympic Stadium will host the Athletics and Paralympic Athletics events at the London 2012 Games and the opening and closing ceremonies. It is the centre-piece of the Games, located on an island site in the south of the Olympic Park. Spectators reach the venue via five bridges.Hyland Edgar Driver worked with the other Team Stadium consultants in an integrated office from 2007, subsequently based on site. This aided close partnership working with the Olympic Delivery Authority’s landscape and public realm team and with its bridges, structures and highways team. They consulted with British Waterways and the Environment Agency, the Metropolitan Police, the building control and planning decisions teams, and with equalities consultants.Hyland Edgar Driver designed and coordinated all the external works and landscape architecture on the Stadium Island from first inception to handover. This has involved complex, multi-phased planning submissions, as well as tendering, procurement and inspection. A design-led approach to the complete environment means that aesthetic standards went hand in hand with value for money solutions, management of risk and opportunity and environmental responsibility.The completed landscape of the Island includes spectator concourses; a river valley landscape of trees and meadows, and planted embankments.