{"id":321870,"date":"2011-03-19T05:10:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T05:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/19\/olympics-gets-eastenders-postcode\/"},"modified":"2011-03-19T05:10:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T05:10:21","slug":"olympics-gets-eastenders-postcode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/19\/olympics-gets-eastenders-postcode\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics gets EastEnders postcode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"68.9760391198\">\n        \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>19 March 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>01:10 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Olympic Park is to get the same postcode as the BBC soap opera EastEnders, the Royal Mail has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The site, in Stratford, will receive an E20 code &#8211; which is currently used by the fictional district of Walford in the TV series.<\/p>\n<p>The postcode will serve five new neighbourhoods to be created after the 2012 Games.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympic Stadium will get its own E20 2ST code as part of the change.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 postcodes will be assigned to developments throughout the site &#8211; which will be renamed the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park after the Games. <\/p>\n<p>London&#8217;s first postal districts were introduced in 1857, while the current system using numbers and letters was created in the late 1950s.<\/p>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-12789694#story_continues_2\">Continue reading the main story<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n<h2>London 2012 &#8211; Begin your journey here<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Sport, news and more 2012 information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- pullout-links--><\/div>\n<p>The E20 postcode for the Olympic Park will also cover neighbouring areas including the residential apartments in the athletes&#8217; village plus the Westfield Stratford City shopping Centre which will house 400 retail units.<\/p>\n<p>The postcodes will be split into three zones &#8211; E20 1, E20 2 and E20 3.<\/p>\n<p>Zones 4 to 9 could be added in future decades as the site develops. Up to 8,000 homes will be built there over the next 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Agar, Royal Mail&#8217;s director of regulated business, said: &#8220;It is fitting that such a significant development in London has been allocated its own easily recognisable postcode more than 150 years after the world&#8217;s first postcodes were introduced in the capital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Walford, the fictional suburb of East London where EastEnders is set, was given the E20 postcode when the BBC launched the soap opera in 1985. <\/p>\n<p>The previous highest postcode area in real life East London was E18, around South Woodford. There is no E19.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/uk-england-london-12789694\" title=\"Olympics gets EastEnders postcode\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olympics gets EastEnders postcode<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 19 March 2011 Last updated at 01:10 ET The Olympic Park is to get the same postcode as the BBC soap opera EastEnders, the Royal Mail has revealed. 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