By Paul Warburton Jan 13 2012 QPR’s second option for a new training ground is the swish Park Club in Acton where members pay £1,000-a-year to tread its hallowed lawns. The club have already indicated they would prefer to decamp from their run-down Harlington complex saddled with temporary buildings to the Warren Farm complex near Osterley – but the Park Club is the back-up plan. Gazette/Chronicle sport has learned that shelling out anything up to £10million to owners The Hogarth Group for the 27-acre site involves a complex deal. Whereas they can start from scratch at Warren Farm while adding a community facility, the existing buildings at the Park Club would stay but require a conversion to the needs of a Premier League team and new boss Mark Hughes (pic). There is also the considerable matter of compensating up to a 1,000 Park Club members who would be told the facility is now in the hands of the football club whose floodlights are visible in the distance. Read More http://www.fulhamchronicle.co.uk/london-sport/london-qpr/2012/01/13/second-site-for-qpr-training-ground-revealed-82029-30113755/?#ixzz1jKcfcQg6
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo.../QPR-talks-new-training-complex.html?ITO=1490 And this with the interesting last bit,
QPR are looking into building a new stadium on the vacant 10 acre Dairy Crest site, in White City. Whoho!
I used to be a member at The Park Club, and I just can't this this being a real possibility. They only just last year spent a fortune on a new tennis dome covering 5 of their tennis courts.. Would love it to be true, but really can't see it.
I thought the Dairy had already been sold but its perfect, right next to white city tube, parking wont be that different either.
QPR have been negotiating with The Park Club and a deal was mooted and it would have happened but i have heard today that Warren Farm has been acquired by QPR.
That's not one of your spoofs is it rebel?! Great news if true, shows some solid progress and that the owners are walking the walk as well as talking the talk!
no. the owners of The Park Club are friends of mine. I train at The Hogarth in Chiswick. went there to get away from the results today and heard in the sauna about Warren Farm. They might have to get rid of the slope though.
