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Steelmonkey said:
From the official statement.....

Fellow Vice Chairman Ruben Gnanalingam added: “This is fantastic news.

“The next step for us now is to engage further with the London Borough of Hounslow and discuss our aspirations to upgrade the quality of the pitches and redevelop the existing buildings.

“We also remain committed to working closely with Ealing Council to assist them in providing community projects at Warren Farm.”

“During these very challenging times we hope this move demonstrates the ongoing commitment we as a Board have towards QPR, a football club we care very passionately about.”
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Hopefully this doesn't involve spending much money - I don't recall Ealing Council falling over themselves to help us
 
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Steelmonkey said:
From the official statement.....

Fellow Vice Chairman Ruben Gnanalingam added: “This is fantastic news.

“The next step for us now is to engage further with the London Borough of Hounslow and discuss our aspirations to upgrade the quality of the pitches and redevelop the existing buildings.

“We also remain committed to working closely with Ealing Council to assist them in providing community projects at Warren Farm.”

“During these very challenging times we hope this move demonstrates the ongoing commitment we as a Board have towards QPR, a football club we care very passionately about.”
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Thanks.
Apart from good PR, why are we still involved?
 
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Excellent news on moving to our very own training ground.
Have to say Bhatia has made a difference to how things are run from ‘upstairs’ and showed, from his statement, he knows the feelings of the fans too. It does seem a statement of intent and will hopefully continue through good business acumen in player investment and talent recognition to progress the clubs fortunes.
Well done all. Let’s keep the momentum going now we have total control of our training ground future.
 
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QPRski said:
Well it is big enough for a stadium, but I don’t know if it would ever get planning permission. Even it would, then we need a new training ground! Catch 22. :)
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I think Oslo is referring to building a stadium at the Warren Farm site rather than the newly acquired Heston site

No idea whether that is practical, but I doubt Ealing Council will be that supportive, not to mention the 5 local NIMBYs that caused all the training ground development issues in the first place
 
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StortfordQPR said:
I think Oslo is referring to building a stadium at the Warren Farm site rather than the newly acquired Heston site

No idea whether that is practical, but I doubt Ealing Council will be that supportive, not to mention the 5 local NIMBYs that caused all the training ground development issues in the first place
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Agree.

I think we have a new training ground.

We still need to find a solution for the stadium.
 
QPRski said:
Well it is big enough for a stadium, but I don’t know if it would ever get planning permission. Even it would, then we need a new training ground! Catch 22. :)
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We now have a new training ground at Heston right. I was just wondering as well why our owners are talking continued work with Ealing council on Warren Farm. I guess it is community work, but..... I remember it from decades ago as just a huge chunk of wasteland, likely to be used for something one day.
 
Steelmonkey said:
Your guess is as good as mine.
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Please don't shoot me down if I'm wrong on this, but I think we now/still have a 200 year long lease of the Warren Farm site.

This has dragged on for so long now so had to do some searching.

Have a look here for some back story http://www.wfig.org.uk/

This could be a very useful asset financially to QPR in the future if true<ok>
 
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UTRs said:
Please don't shoot me down if I'm wrong on this, but I think we now/still have a 200 year long lease of the Warren Farm site.

This has dragged on for so long now so had to do some searching.

Have a look here for some back story http://www.wfig.org.uk/

This could be a very useful asset financially to QPR in the future if true<ok>
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Don't think we'll be signing that lease...says it will only be signed once construction has been completed, and seeing as we couldn't even get a spade in the ground without some NIMBY getting their knickers in a twist I doubt we'll be building anything substantial - maybe some toilets for the dog walkers?

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Steelmonkey said:
Don't think we'll be signing that lease...says it will only be signed once construction has been completed, and seeing as we couldn't even get a spade in the ground without some NIMBY getting their knickers in a twist I doubt we'll be building anything substantial - maybe some toilets for the dog walkers?

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Nice one Steels, I was never very good at reading the small print tbh<doh><laugh>
 
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