One of my more well informed chums has said that are mosque is replacing the Crayford Greyhound stadium. If true, a shame that neither a school or a hospital is replacing it.
I have searched for any source online that states or even infers that a mosque is going to be built on the site of the Crayford Stadium. And I cannot find one. When the Catford dog track was closed it was replaced by a housing development built by Barret Homes called 'Catford Green'. This apparently includes 588 homes and a community centre. Whether or not that community centre includes any places of worship, I do not know. It would seem likely to me that the Crayford Stadium site may eventually be redeveloped in a similar way. That is up to the company that currently owns it I suppose. According to sources such as the Racing Post, the owners say the stadium is no longer commercially viable. I don't know whether that is true or not, but they are on record as stating it. There is no mention I can find anywhere of what future purpose the site will be put to.
Plans for hundreds of homes surrounding the dog track at the former Electrobase site off Maxim Road have already been given the go-ahead. The scheme is for a site covering a former Sainsbury’s car park and an area of open wood or scrub-land known as Crayford Rough. This is what is happening at the site. No mention of a Mosque. But that is not to say that there won’t be one.
Here is more. Again no mention of a Mosque. https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/developer-completes-acquisition-of-180m-550-home-scheme-82957
Putting aside the issue of the mosque, it’s a real shame that they have lost that dog track. Those who have followed the story from the start will know that it was quite deliberate.
From what I've gathered it is something to do with cutting costs for the owners, who also own two big betting chains. And they've been less than honest and up-front about reasons. Typical way big corporations treat their customers and the Public at large. At it's height greyhound racing was massive in the UK, many hundreds of tracks and millions of fans / punters. I would guess that has shrunk now to maybe 1% of what it used to be. The end of an era.
End of an era agreed. I have mixed feelings on all this - I used to enjoy it but only ever went a handful of times, it’s not great for the wellbeing of the dogs and we have a housing crisis and it’s not a good use of land space in our overpopulated country. Off on a tangent I know but I personally would advocate the compulsory sale of all golf courses to enable them to be repurposed- mixture of rewilding, housing, amenities and park land. Such a waste of space for typically the well off only
You want to confiscate / compulsorily purchase private property ? Putin did that sort of thing in St Petersburg.
Didn't our Government do that to allow the building of HS2? And other projects I expect. Not saying it's right or wrong, just that I think it goes on here too.
