Crystal Palace to be re-built?

[jonathanmaher]

From BBC:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23475994

Wonder how this might affect our access to the park for racing?

[John John]

Jul 27, 2013 21:20:28 GMT jonathanmaher said:

From BBC:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23475994

Wonder how this might affect our access to the park for racing?

In many ways I hope that something positive is eventually done to sympathetically develop the top of CP Park (that isn't a retail site or housing). However, in London, stories of grandiose plans for this plot of land (which never see the light of day) are only superseded in number by stillborn plans for Battersea Power Station.

I suspect that the Crits will still be around for many years after the 'Chinese solution' is long forgotten.

[AlanStrang]

Fear not. Bob has been in contact with the Chinese developers and a race HQ (along with fully plumbed toilets) has been incorporated into the plans. Now, if only they'd also agree to laying rain proof tarmac on Dead Man's curve we'd be laughing.

[Zach Bredemear]

Looks like the rain proof tarmac on Dead Man's Curve was the stumbling block...

www.propertyweek.com/residential-and-development/clock-runs-down-for-%C2%A3500m-crystal-palace-plan/5073002.article

[carl Statham]

I'd stand to make a killing on my house. But the Crystal Palace was absolutely enormous and since then one of the main stations has closed.

Can you imagine the carnage on the roads around Sydenham and on the Triangle. It is bad enough getting across the Parade now without 10,000 chavs arriving to buy their Saturday night glad rags. We'd have BMW's stacked around our ears trying to park in every street possible.

Before it closed down it was apparently becoming a sad relic anyway. I think the last show was the SE Section Cat Show. I'll prey it stays a scruffy sad memory of a once glorious British Empire and nothing more.

[Deleted]

My Grandad lived round there when it burned down, and he always said his family thought it was a bit of an eyesore. Apparently whoever owned it tried to have concerts in it, it was damp and the acoustics were terrible. Someone told me that there was a brass band concert in it, and they've never heard anything like the racket of brass bands in a greenhouse.

Pop said it was full of rats and when it burned down, the rats ran out and into all the local houses.... although I expect the rebuild would be minus the rats, damp, and brass bands. The acoustics might still be a challenge though.