Right in the centre of Crystal Palace park is one of London’s only two dedicated race tracks for radio-controlled cars, but it might not be there for much longer.
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Sitting next to the GLA-owned National Sports Centre (NSC), there’s been an outdoor remote control racing track on the site since the 1970s, plans put forward by Bromley Council could see the track removed, to be replaced with a football pitch instead.
Bromley council consultation boards
Bromley Council and the GLA are drawing up the plans to refurbish the NSC as part of a broader scheme to improve Crystal Palace park. Arguably, more people would use the football pitch, but equally arguable is that there’s not exactly a lack of football pitches in London, whereas this appears to be South London’s only dedicated RC track.
(There is another one in Uxbridge)
Demolishing the racing track would remove something that’s hard to replace in order to provide something that is already in plentiful supply all over the city.
There is a petition to protest against the plans here.
If they have a contract and are paying rent, how can they be kicked out? Or are they there using “squatters” rights?
Because contracts AKA leases have break and give notice clauses.
Bonkers! In that artists impression. They’ve got football pitches where the race track is, beach volley ball courts where the current AstroTurf football pitch is, and what looks like grass and deckchairs where the current beach volleyball pitches are! Why spend millions moving them round a hundred yards, losing something that’s been there for 50 years in the process. The park is huge, surely there’s room for it all. Trying to think of other words, but just, bonkers!
English heritage preserves buildings that are considered important to our history.
Shouldn’t there also be an equivalent organisation whose job is to preserve public facilities that are not buildings but are nevertheless considered important by those in the vicinity?
There’s also a lack of model flying sites everywhere, sillyy realy when most modellers fly electric these days. No council that I know of provide any sites we are forced to beg sites from friendly farmers. The site near me were forced to move as the farmer got more money from HS2 to be used as a car park??